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With a time-in-
minutes entered,
clear the factory-
default message
text and type-in a default message of your own, up to 128 cha-
racters. This can be a scrolling promo message, as shown here,
or a static, non-scrolling PS entry of 8 characters or less, such
as
LIVE-105
for this station example.
After entering the default message, click:
OK
to save it to soft-
ware memory. The message will be uploaded to the encoder’s
own memory with the next
WRITE
command.
If the
DPSTimer
is reset to zero to disable this function, the
message will still remain in memory and may be enabled later,
either with a software command or by using the jog wheel in
Menu 05. You must initiate a
WRITE
command to send the de-
fault message to the encoder whether or not the feature is
enabled at this time.
RADIO TEXT AND ‘RT+’
Radio Text is a 64-character block of text that is separate from
the DPS (scrolling PS) message field. Radio Text is transmitted
to the receiver as a complete message and is not parsed by the
730 Encoder. The Radio Text message is held in buffer memory
within the RDS radio, and then scrolled or otherwise displayed
in a manner determined by the receiver manufacturer.
Some automobile receivers do not display Radio Text at all, and
others require the listener to press an INFO or TEXT button to
see the Radio Text message.
Radio Text may be a static message, perhaps with station con-
tact information or a general station promo slogan. Alterna-
tively, Radio Text may take the form of dynamic “Radio Text
Plus” (RT+) that allows song ‘tagging’ and other interactive ap-
plications. This is detailed in Section VIII, which begins on Page
71.
A static Radio Text message is entered manually in the main
software data-entry screen and may be updated whenever the
information changes.
Click into the
Radio Text
field, clear the factory-default message
and type in your own. The character counter to the right of the
field shows the number of characters entered out of the maxi-
