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Old 15th May 2022, 8:38 pm   #10
patrickgnl
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Default Re: Consumer NICAM Modulators. Did any exist?

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If you just want to see the NICAM light come back on your old TV or VCR, either of the above solutions will work.
Was wanting to do a bit more than that. Actually I don't even have a suitable TV or VCR. Don't really want to fill my lair with old AV gear if I can avoid it. I bought this board off eBay for £3. It's got DQPSK demod, codec, DAC etc. Most of the needed bits.

Was interested to see if I could make it work without whatever it came out of. Needed NICAM signal first though. I have a NICAM signal now, I just need to grapple with the difficulties of building the tuner/IF/AGC etc
You may already have a suitable TV. I suspect most modern TV‘s have a NiCAM decoder built into there analogue tuner chipset. Most modern TVs have multistandard (B/G/D/H/I/K/L) analogue tuners, so I would assume can cope with Nicam and the German analogue stereo A2 Zweiton standard.

Agreed a bit hit and miss but worth a try if you can create a generator
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