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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 27, 2009 20:48:27 GMT -7
For anyone who might care, the KUER stereo pilot is back on tonight. It had been missing for months. I'll try to remember to check if they leave it on for the talk programming tomorrow.
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Post by dxstuboy on Aug 27, 2009 23:24:14 GMT -7
Now a few stations need to fix their RDS. Some of them just say the same thing over and over, and never change.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 28, 2009 20:21:40 GMT -7
RDS having static info like a slogan or calls or something I wouldn't mind. Having song names that don't match what's on the radio is something else. Of course I've never had an RDS equipped radio and I think it's unlikely I will.
Users here aren't a representative sample, but how many readers have at least one RDS radio that they use regularly?
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Post by Terry on Aug 28, 2009 23:22:54 GMT -7
I have 2 radios with RDS. I don't care about song titles, at least not on terrestrial radio. I do like the fact that KSL shows me the temperature.
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Post by Timmy on Aug 29, 2009 9:28:12 GMT -7
I like RDS, my Dodge minivan has it. It's truly a secondary or tertiary method of station recognition. I do wonder what the stats are on RDS capabilities in the typical market. It will be worth nill as far as ratings once PPMs start here.
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Post by seattlefollower on Aug 29, 2009 17:35:17 GMT -7
I would love to have an RDS radio. Sadly, only my parents Volvo has one. Eastern Idaho has even less use of the technology than Salt Lake - Ogden - Provo.
It's very valuable for finding "traffic" stations in Europe, and KSL has the indicator on, but so do some area music stations. I believe if configured correctly, your car radio will auto tune if a certain RDS command is fed down about a traffic alert.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 30, 2009 0:06:39 GMT -7
I think you're right about the alerts, though I'm not that familiar with it. There's another feature that Europe has that I'm not sure is even available here that automatically switches to a different frequency that has the same programming if that one's stronger. For the stations that have translators or simulcasts this could be a big advantage.
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Post by Terry on Aug 30, 2009 7:39:19 GMT -7
About 10 years ago we rented a car in Britain and spent 3 weeks driving all over the big island. The radio in the car did not even show a station's frequency, merely the name of the service. It automatically changed to new signals as we traveled. The display would show which city the transmitter (and the rare local news) was coming from. Almost all of the programming came from London. There were 5 or 6 station buttons on the radio. One was assigned to each service. Being a radio geek I tried to find another way to use the radio, to see the frequency for example. Couldn't do it.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 30, 2009 17:25:10 GMT -7
Yeah, the British don't look at things the way we do. Here a channel means a frequency. There a channel is their word for a network. Really weird.
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