Touch Screen Radio & RDS
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Touch Screen Radio & RDS
After I've set my local stations for each of the "buttons" on the screen, even when that station isn't playing, the "buttons" change! I can't seem to keep the frequency showing in the button space. For example, I can set the button to "102.9", which then shows "102.9" in the button space; then, later the "102.9" designation disappears and an artist's name or something else replaces the "102.9" designation. Am I doing something incorrect in the setup, or does the RDS system have a mind of its own and takes over whenever the RDS stations send out signals? Seems to me that. like a Microsoft operating system, it does what it wants!
Any ideas, or is it just the nature of the beast!
THANX
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Any ideas, or is it just the nature of the beast!
THANX
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RE: Touch Screen Radio & RDS
Quemfala:
My XJ8 does the same thing! I assume the system picks up info about the artist, song or name of the station that happens to be broadcast at the time! I don't seem to be able to make it stay on the station frequency I enter at first very often.
Mike
My XJ8 does the same thing! I assume the system picks up info about the artist, song or name of the station that happens to be broadcast at the time! I don't seem to be able to make it stay on the station frequency I enter at first very often.
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RE: Touch Screen Radio & RDS
Should show in the owners manual how to do it.
If not hold down, am/fm and eject at same time. Then start pushing the numbers. I don't remember which one is for RBDS. It will show on screen though. Start at # 1 and then 2 etc. until it says US no RDBS.
If not hold down, am/fm and eject at same time. Then start pushing the numbers. I don't remember which one is for RBDS. It will show on screen though. Start at # 1 and then 2 etc. until it says US no RDBS.
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The problem is not the Jags. RDS is a system that was initiated in Europe by the European Broadcasting Union back in 1990 to enable small packets of information to be embedded in the radio signal. I remember when I first came to North America being surprised that people still needed to know the bandwidth of a Radio Station to find it on the radios and my radio wouldn't automatically tune to a traffic announcement.
The system relies on field identifiers for different types of information so that your head unit can decode the signal. CT for clock time, PTY for program type, TA and TP for Traffic announcements,PS for program service (Station name) and RT for radio text.
The problem here is that the Radio stations are generally using PS Field for their station identifier and radio text. Your head unit therefore believes that any text sent is the Station Name. Basically the Radio stations don't know what they are doing. Maybe things will improve as they get used to the system.
The system relies on field identifiers for different types of information so that your head unit can decode the signal. CT for clock time, PTY for program type, TA and TP for Traffic announcements,PS for program service (Station name) and RT for radio text.
The problem here is that the Radio stations are generally using PS Field for their station identifier and radio text. Your head unit therefore believes that any text sent is the Station Name. Basically the Radio stations don't know what they are doing. Maybe things will improve as they get used to the system.
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cfcjagman has a handle on the problem. It's the radio stations messing up your display not the display itself. I've seen stations send the wrong information or leave the same message going out for hours at a time, you'll be listening to Cream and the display says Hendrix. Call and complain to the stations and maybe if enough complaints get logged they will do something about it.
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RE: Touch Screen Radio & RDS
Factory Jaguar Tech had the solution. Pushing AM/FM and Eject at the same time brought up a screen than enabled me to turn RDS off. Now the preset buttons on the radio display the actual frequencies of the stations. Thanks for the info.
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