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The time taken to receive a PI code is greater than the amount of time the background retunes to test signal strength happen in - This is the design limitation

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AIUI, this is a limitation of the way RDS itself works, so there's no possibility to improve this in the player, right?

As to always getting "No AF information available" (aka "Dormant" state) even though Radio info mode shows RDS and AF being received - I've found that sometimes this happens to me when I access the station via a preset or at boot. If I nudge the frequency a step and back again (e.g. by pressing Left then Right on the remote - not front panel), I can get it into the Wait state (Hijack) or Active (virgin kernel). Does this help you, Boxer?