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6 More Tuner Features
Using RDS (UK model only)
Radio Data System, or RDS as it's usually known, is a system
used by FM radio stations to provide listeners with various
information—the name of the station and the kind of show
they're broadcasting, for example. This information shows up
as text on the display, and you can switch between the kind of
information shown. Although you don't get RDS information
from all FM radio stations, you do with most.
Probably the most useful feature of RDS is that you can search
automatically by type of program. So, if you felt like listening
to jazz, you could have the MT search for a station that's
broadcasting a show with the program type, "JAZZ." There are
around 30 such program types, including various genres of
music, news, sport, talk shows, financial information, and so
on.
This unit let's you display three different kinds of RDS
information: Radio Text, Program Service Name, and
Program Type.
Radio Text (RT) is a message sent by the radio station. It can
be anything the broadcaster chooses—a talk radio station
might give out its telephone number as RT, for example.
Program Service Name (PS) is the name of the radio station.
Program Type (PTY) indicates the kind of program currently
being broadcast.
Program types
Pop M Pop music
Rock M Rock music
M.O.R. M "Middle of the road" music
Light M 'Light' classical music
Classics 'Serious' classical music
Jazz Jazz music
Country Country music
Nation M Popular music in a language other than
English
Oldies Popular music from the '50s
Folk M Folk music
Other M Other music not fitting any of the above
categories
News News
Affairs Current affairs
Info General information
Sport Sports
Educate Educational material
Drama Radio drama
Culture Arts and culture
Science Science and technology
Varied Usually talk-based material, such as quiz
shows or interviews.
Weather Weather reports
Finance Finance and business
Children Children’s entertainment
Social A Social affairs
Religion Religious programming
Phone in Phone in talk show
Tr a v e l Holiday-type travel rather than traffic
announcements, etc.
Leisure Leisure interests and hobbies
Document Documentaries
In addition, there is a program type, ALARM!, used for
exceptional emergency announcements. You can't search for
this, but the tuner will switch automatically to that station if it
picks up this RDS signal.