The RDS Program Service Name (PSN) signal was developed to allow broadcasters to
identify themselves on an RDS enabled receiver by sending up to eight (8) characters of text
at a time to be displayed on the receiver.
As well as station ID information, the RDS PSN signal is now commonly used for
broadcasting information about radio station contacts, competitions, song and artist
information and more.
3.4.1 Understanding PSN Pages in the RDS2
The BW RDS2 ‘PSN’ configuration screen allows you to configure up to 10 pages of
information. Each PSN page has 50 available lines - grouped across 5 columns - with
each line having 8 characters.
The ACTIVE Page
Although the BW RDS2 can store 10 pages of PSN information it will only broadcast
data from one page at a time. This is known as the ACTIVE page. There is no
indication of which page is currently ACTIVE. Setting which page is ACTIVE can be
done manually by selecting the page to be activated and pressing the ‘MAKE
ACTIVE’ button or automatically by the PSN Scheduler (See Section XXX).
Enabled Lines
Within a PSN page, if any text has been entered on a line, that line will be ‘Enabled’.
‘Enabled’ lines are visible by their grey colour. If a line is grey but does not appear to
have any text visible it may have a ‘space’ entered.
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