TEXT button on car radio

[David Wang]

>
> On December 6, 2006 Stephen Chace wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Lurker coming out of the shadows to ask a burning question:
>
>   How does the TEXT system for pulling call letters and sometimes  
> song info
> work?  Maybe 50% of stations in our area are using it, at least for  
> station
> ID.  Fewer use it for song ID.
>
> Stephen Chace
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> The "TEXT"  system is RDS in Europe, RBDS here. For song titles and  
> artists to appear information must be manually tagged in each song,  
> it then goes from the computer/automation system playing the song  
> to the RBDS encoder.
> here is a sample encoder:
>
> http://www.sbsfm.com/html/trans/fmb10rds.html
> More info on system is available here:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System
>
> I thought a great use of the system was WEEI-FM who was using it  
> last year during Sox games to give the score, the pitcher, and  
> related in-game information.
> With IBOC  ("HD Radio") this, and more information should be  
> relatively easy to transmit.
>
> The future ain't what it used to be. - Yogi Berra
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