FM Radio App

So a friend came over for Thanksgiving dinner and had a Motorola Smart phone he wasn't using anymore. This one uses the Android operating system and it works nicely, while i don't have service for the cell section of the phone, i can still take advantage of the wifi app and other features.

A neat feature, the FM Radio app.
From 87 mhz to 108 mhz this radio built into a phone works fairly well considering were i live and the initial test was made inside a home under the most unusual conditions.

With a set of headphones plugged into the phone the fm app works, if no headphones are present it will not start up and tells you to plug in some headphones, ear piece or even a powered speaker. I did try this out with a three speaker system and it sounded great.

For the test i used a set of over the ear headphones, most users have earbuds, i however cannot use earbuds without feeling a gread deal of discomfort.

To program channels into the radio you hit scan and the radio scans the fm dial from 87 mhz to 108 mhz and will only pick out the strongest signals.

Of course it chose 87.9 FM BBR then moved on to other stations that were strong enough for the app to sense. If i moved around alot the stations would get static or the receiver would mute and i would either have to move to where i first heard the station clear or re scan.

There is no manual tuning and the app doesn't mask out interference which i was hearing on 90.3 fm caused by the phone being too close to my pc's keyboard.

Below is a link to the video demonstration.

The link..

If i had to rate this radio app on a scale of 1 to 10 , 10 being the best and 1 being the worse, I wouuld have to give it a rating of 7. It's okay if you are in a city with 50 or more signals blanketing the area, but out in the sticks your reception may be poor.
I also don't like the idea of not having a way to manually tune the radio.





Barry of Blue Bucket Radio 1620

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