[arki]

:chainsaw:
Today the Service mangager at my Dealership told me that the reason I was having trouble with the text feature of the radio was due to the FCC making VW stop using it. He told me that they had to quit and so would raio stations.
Well as you might think I have lost all respect for him and my dealership. Oh well anyone a nicely equipped TREG near KY....

 

[spockcat]

Where is the laughing icon? Or the "how stupid can you get" icon?

 

[algbc]

Text on the radio ?
what is that? will do vw still offers that?

 

[grizzfan]

Text on Radio

I get one rock station here in Missoula that has a single line of text: "WILD", but have noticed it in other towns while driving around. My 2002 Volvo V70 XC had the same feature.

So it seems to be working here in the wilderness. I'd guess in major metro areas I'd be getting more text that I want!

Tom

 

[algbc]

does the text on the ridio informs you teh name of teh song and artist? is it offerd in canada?

 

[4x4s]

does the text on the ridio informs you teh name of teh song and artist? is it offerd in canada?

It will only show song titles if the radio station sends this info on the rds channel. In my area, only one or two stations do this.

RDS is not well implemented by broadcasters in the US, so the "feature" is not really worth getting worked up about. I don't know how well it is implemented in Canada.

 

[dentmac]

Mine works fine and most of the stations seem to have their frequency and or station name. 98.1 96.7 101.3 or CHEY if you're near Toronto, Barrie or Kitchener areas. I haven't seen any around here display song titles but I haven't really looked.

 

[V8AIREGG]

I get artist and song. Not all stations transmit it.

 

[algbc]

they got those in europ waayy befor we did :-(

 

[dschlei]

they got those in europ waayy befor we did :-(

They also have a system that mutes the radion and brings traffic news/warnings, and if they have a nav, their system gives info to nav about construction and traffic jams and allows nav to recalculate the route! We live in the dark ages of over the airways traffic info,because the different radio stations do not want to join a national system! :-&

 

[V8AIREGG]

I Agree...whats up with that!

 

[spockcat]

I think that the European system, and the German system in particular, has been brought about by the fact that for many years the government owned all the radio stations and there was a tax on all radios. I don't know if this is still the case. Perhaps dschlei can tell us.

 

[4x4s]

I know that in the UK the system is well supported. It works great there where many (most?) radio channels are more like national US tv networks - same thing broadcasted through many individual stations.

So, if I have BBC1 tuned in in London, and I'm driving north to Manchester, I'll leave the reange of one local broadcast tower and come into the range of another - both broadcasting on a different frequency. The RDS system (when fully supported as it is there) will identify that both of these broadcasts on different frequecies are "BBC1", so the radio can select the frequency with the strongest signal.

 

[dschlei]

I think that the European system, and the German system in particular, has been brought about by the fact that for many years the government owned all the radio stations and there was a tax on all radios. I don't know if this is still the case. Perhaps dschlei can tell us.

This is not entirely correct! Many of the radio stations (and TV stations) were types of public radio stations, not governmental controlled ones, but governmental supported. They do and did not broadcast advertising, and their existence is ensure with a type of mandatory fee that every radio owner had/has to pay. However, since more than 20 years, Germany and Europe has many real private stations (funded by advertising money), but they too broadcast the traffic information system. They had to agree to do this service to get a broadcasting license.

The system is now pretty well perfected across entire Europe, and one can drive from the north of Germany to the south of Italy, and receive all pertinent traffic information along the way. If detours are recommended, the Nav units will take this into consideration, and cars without Nav will have them displayed in the RDS field in addition to the verbal message coming from the muted radio! The system is so clever, that it even mutes any CD or tape that is played at that time.

It is a really cool system! If we would have this system here, it would help me to prevent a lot of stop and go traffic every morning when I drive to work. It seems that the section of freeway that I have to take every day, tries to become the semi truck jack-knifing/tipping over center of the US!