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I just noticed on the 2006 Ford, the radio has this thing called RDS, its really cool, it displays the station calls, the format, the slogan and the song playing, title and artist. Every FM station has it, including the Hawk and WOGL, EXCEPT WMMR, YSP has FREE-FM coming up already, is MMR in the stone age, and what exactly is RDS. I still prefer my cassette player over RDS. I have to see if the AM band works also...
 
> I just noticed on the 2006 Ford, the radio has this thing
> called RDS, its really cool, it displays the station calls,
> the format, the slogan and the song playing, title and
> artist. Every FM station has it, including the Hawk and
> WOGL, EXCEPT WMMR, YSP has FREE-FM coming up already, is MMR
> in the stone age, and what exactly is RDS. I still prefer my
> cassette player over RDS. I have to see if the AM band
> works also...
>

RDS=Rado Data Service

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> I just noticed on the 2006 Ford, the radio has this thing
> called RDS, its really cool, it displays the station calls,
> the format, the slogan and the song playing, title and
> artist. Every FM station has it, including the Hawk and
> WOGL, EXCEPT WMMR, YSP has FREE-FM coming up already, is MMR
> in the stone age, and what exactly is RDS. I still prefer my
> cassette player over RDS. I have to see if the AM band
> works also...
>

WMMR's RDS says "933 WMMR" and "PHILLY'S 1ST ROCK STATION" ...
No song titles, though - not every station with RDS offers title/artist ...
RDS is FM only ...
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We turned off our RDS because it never caught on, and it used up several of our relatively few watts of power. Few radios have it.

What's REALLY fun is if you have a radio that uses the time signal that RDS can include to set its clock, and the station's RDS is transmitting the wrong time. There was a thread on this a couple of years ago...at least one of the big stations in Baltimore was sending a time signal that was about 3 hours and 37 minutes off. It took a while to figure out why the clock on our brand new Blaupunkt tuner kept going hooey.

Bill
 
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