TEXT button on car radio

[Dan Strassberg]

Just shows the total stupidity of designing software (or firmware)-dependent
products with software (or firmware) that isn't easily modifable--ideally by
downloading from the signal received over the air. Guess which broadcasting
system lacks such a feature ;>( Goes in the "what WERE they thinking"
category!

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Dan Strassberg
dan.strassberg@att.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chace, Stephen" <SChace@spectro.com>
To: "'Boston Radio'" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 2:43 PM
Subject: RE: TEXT button on car radio


> Here is the list of categories from my car's TYPE button:
>
> R&B
> CLS/JAZZ
> EASY LIS
> ROCK
> ALERT
> MISC
> RELIGION
> INFORM
>
> No Country.  Is the list specific to the model of radio?
>
> Stephen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Lehmann [mailto:jjlehmann@comcast.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 7:05 PM
> To: Chace, Stephen; 'Boston Radio'
> Subject: RE: TEXT button on car radio
>
>
> > Related question:  Who decided on the categories listed under the "TYPE"
> > button?  Seems odd that country was left out.
>
> Country is one of them, in most radios anyway. WKLB and WCTK both transmit
> RDS with Country as the program type.
>
> Jeff Lehmann
> Hanson, MA