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RE: RDS car radio

To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
Subject: RE: RDS car radio
From: Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 14:16:41 -0500
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At 11:13 AM 4/3/2003 -0800, Cooper Fox wrote:

>I remember hearing about the development of RDS
>systems in the early 90s(discovery channel's BEYOND
>2000,IIRC).  A few posts ago someone mentioned that
>only 5% of cars have RDS capable radios.  Any chance
>this percentage will increase?  Or is this a long
>lasting fad?


RDS technology as it exists today will die with IBOC.   IBOC transmitters 
cannot have subcarriers; they replace them with the data service 
channels.  RDS is dependant on that subcarrier - hence why it's going away.

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Aaron "Bishop" Read             aread@speakeasy.net
FriedBagels Consulting          AOL-IM: readaaron
http://www.friedbagels.com      Boston, MA

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