Clear Channel to enhance radio ads with RDS

[Mark Laurence]

On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 09:31  PM, Dan Strassberg wrote:

> I have, on several occasions, rented Ford Focuses in Tampa while 
> visitng my
> mom at the assisted-living facility. These were cars of several 
> different
> model years. NONE of the Focus radios had manual tuning controls, 
> unless you
> consider the Seek and Scan functions to be such controls. The effect 
> of this
> control strategy is that you can't tune to weak stations, which the 
> radio IS
> capable of receiving satisfactorily.

I have a Ford Focus and yes, you can manually tune the radio.  It's not 
the most intuitive system, but by pushing the Menu button once, you'll 
see the indication "Man" in the tuning screen.  Then, the seek-scan 
buttons turn into a manual tuner. each click taking you 10kHz or .2 mHz 
up and down the dial.  Try it next time.  Actually it's a good quality 
radio and CD player, and my only complaint is the click-steps on the 
volume control are either too loud or too soft: I wish there was a 
volume level marked 2.5.

Mark