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#208317 - 05/03/2004 21:38 Hope this is not a repost: RDS hosed in Seattle?
ianken_ms new poster Registered: 24/02/2003 Posts: 2	I've to the Mk2 unit with the tuner. RDS used to display the station ID at the top and whatever data they had at the bottom. Now the content that is at the bottom of the display (artists, song, etc) is being displayed at the top where the call sign is. I assume this is a result of inept RDS deployment in the US. So, is there a way around this? I cannot locate any options which allow me to disable RDS updates for the top of the radio display, or to disable RDS altogether.
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#208318 - 06/03/2004 00:17 Re: Hope this is not a repost: RDS hosed in Seattle? [Re: ianken_ms]
robricc carpal tunnel Registered: 30/10/2000 Posts: 4931 Loc: New Jersey, USA	I assume this is a result of inept RDS deployment in the US. You're correct on that. So many stations put that info in the wrong field because lots of cars only support that field. Very lame. _________________________ -Rob Riccardelli 80GB 16MB MK2 090000736
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#208319 - 06/03/2004 05:21 Re: Hope this is not a repost: RDS hosed in Seattl [Re: ianken_ms]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	I cannot locate any options which allow me to disable RDS updates for the top of the radio display Switch to an info screen other than "Info: Radio", for example "info: Off" or "info: Line". _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#208320 - 06/03/2004 05:24 Re: Hope this is not a repost: RDS hosed in Seattle? [Re: robricc]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3996 Loc: Manchester UK	So the station ID is scrolling the Artist and Title info? I'm sure that's illegal, at least the manual for the RDS encoder I hired says it is. _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#208321 - 06/03/2004 05:25 Re: Hope this is not a repost: RDS hosed in Seattl [Re: tfabris]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3996 Loc: Manchester UK	Blimey Tony, you must be up late? _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#208322 - 06/03/2004 08:39 Re: Hope this is not a repost: RDS hosed in Seattle? [Re: andym]
speedy67 enthusiast Registered: 18/12/2000 Posts: 342 Loc: South-West-Germany	In germany it is illegal to abuse the station-ID, too. But it's very common, though. It's illegal too for car-stereos to show rds-text, which contains the scrolling infos like artist, title and more. The driver would be distracted too much. But you can buy some, which do show it. The controls over those laws are very lax... _________________________ cheers, Thomas new owner of the MK1 00123 MK2 12GB 090000815 (my first one) MK2a 040103735 (from 303) and ???
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#208323 - 06/03/2004 13:19 Re: Hope this is not a repost: RDS hosed in Seattl [Re: andym]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31597 Loc: Seattle, WA	Blimey Tony, you must be up late? They have an internet room here at the Filk con. We don't usually get done filking until after 2am or so, and I stopped in after the circle broke up. Er, I mean... Robots do not require sleep. _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#208324 - 06/03/2004 15:39 Re: Hope this is not a repost: RDS hosed in Seattl [Re: tfabris]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3996 Loc: Manchester UK	_________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#208325 - 07/03/2004 08:05 Re: Hope this is not a repost: RDS hosed in Seattle? [Re: ianken_ms]
avatarTX member Registered: 23/08/2000 Posts: 193 Loc: Dallas Texas USA	I have the same problem here in Dallas. Only ONCE have I seen it displayed correctly, and why that particular radio station managed to get ONE song right but not the rest is beyond me! I look forward to the day when someone with brain cells that are actually firing gets RDS working the way that it should be! _________________________ Carl Aydelotte Dallas Texas USA empeg MKII 080000506 40gb-green
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#208326 - 30/03/2004 21:41 Re: Hope this is not a repost: RDS hosed in Seattl [Re: avatarTX]
az_max new poster Registered: 18/01/2002 Posts: 27	I listen to 8 stations here in PHX: 3 don't use RDS 1 uses it to display call sign 4 scroll artist info, etc These 4 constantly corrupt the name field on the presets. If I switch over to Info, only something that completely fills the display (for rds char) displays correctly, the rest of the time I have orphaned characters or character on top of character in the display. One displays info so fast, it gets maybe two characters on the screen in the line mode before it snaps back to start the redraw again. I would very much like to get rid of RDS.
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