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AEV 4500 RDS encoder

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dxer2_2000

Hi

I've just ordered one of these units. Anyone here had any experience with these? Are they easy to use? Are they easy to program to display song title & Artist? - these units are made in Italy.

Thanks
dxer2_2000
 
> Shouldn't you have asked this question BEFORE purchasing?
>

Unfortuneatly, there's not much choice here in Australia. RDS isn't popular here. I even had trouble tracking down someone who would even sell an RDS unit!
Importing one myself would attract too much import tax/fees.

dxer2_2000
 
Perfectly clear.

There is an American/North American RBDS standard and the European standard RDS.

The unit will probably handle both, since the North American standard builds on the European. The question is which standard is popular in Australian cars?

I would guess the North American, since from what I see on the "telly" many models we have here are popular in Australia. Especially GM. A lot of the high end General Motors SUV's and pickups have RDS here, a visit to a GM dealership might be informative.

Once that is resolved, I suspect that this unit probably will work. The European standard does not support scrolling of song titles, but a lot of these units allow it anyway.
 
> Hi
>
> I've just ordered one of these units. Anyone here had any
> experience with these? Are they easy to use? Are they easy
> to program to display song title & Artist? - these units are
> made in Italy.
>
> Thanks
> dxer2_2000
>

The software is very unfriendly. Once you use it and find that out yourself download the following
http://www.broadcastwarehouse.com/downloads/BW RDS2.zip
Works on the AEV as long as you leave the default address at '?????'
same facility model hardware at
http://www.broadcastwarehouse.com/p/BW/RDS-Encoders/RDS-2-RDS-Encoder?pid=128
Best regards
Scott
 
Thats odd, for some reason, I thought RDS was huge down under. Don't know where I got that idea from but I honestly thought you guys were ahead of the curve on RDS. Learn something new everyday. And as usual, pulling the shoe out of of my mouth. Keep us up to date as to how things go with it. Sadly, we cannot put RDS on either of my our FM's. One has subs on 67 and 92 that make huge money and 57 splashes over to much and the other FM has a xmtr that just cannot push a sub. Oh well......good luck to ya, mate
 
Hi


Yeah, even New Zealand has more stations running RDS than here in Oz!

I think they are gearing up for Eureka-147 Digital radio here. That's where the money is being spent.
Triple J thought RDS was a waste of time & ARN (Australian Radio Network) only bought 6 or so RDS units cause Nova had it.

Australia generally uses the European RDS system but I suspect Nova is running the American RBDS system (their RDS setup doesn't register properly on my SONY FM tuner).

dxer2_2000



> Thats odd, for some reason, I thought RDS was huge down
> under. Don't know where I got that idea from but I honestly
> thought you guys were ahead of the curve on RDS. Learn
> something new everyday. And as usual, pulling the shoe out
> of of my mouth. Keep us up to date as to how things go with
> it. Sadly, we cannot put RDS on either of my our FM's. One
> has subs on 67 and 92 that make huge money and 57 splashes
> over to much and the other FM has a xmtr that just cannot
> push a sub. Oh well......good luck to ya, mate
>
 
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