Subject: | Re: RDS out of date?
| Date: | Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:33:29 +0100
| From: | charles <charles@charleshope.demon.co.uk>
| Newsgroups: | uk.tech.broadcast
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In article <bi51e6$4tsf5$1@ID-191093.news.uni-berlin.de>,
David <d.remove.park@tesco.net> wrote:
> Is the RDS Fm radio service now not supported by the BBC?
> I ask as I have just returnted from a week in North Yorkshire and the
> local FM service from the BBC was 'Radio North Yorkshire'. But the RDS
> gives BBC York, which I assume is the name of the previous station that
> used the frequency. Once a name is in the RDS system is it not possible
> to deal with station name changes?
It used to be a matter of blowing a new EPROM and fitting it to the equioment
on site. however the RDS "name" is limited to 8 characters so i can't see
the full station name fitting. BBC NYks would though.
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