Inovonics Dante 551, Installation & User Manual

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Hovering over the red dot will display
Freq:
and
RSSI:
, plus the RDS
PI:
code and its derived
Call:
letters and the PTY (programming format) of
the station. This is shown in the upper inset at
the right.
Running a full
RSSI + RDS + HD scan addition-
ally shows the HD stations as blue bars, nearly
always topped with red dots to indicate RDS
info as well. In the lower inset, hovering over
just the blue portion of the bar brings up Freq: ,
RSSI:
and
Cd/No:
(digital signal quality) stats.
Included are which HD Programs: (channels) are
being broadcast, and the ‘short’ HD station
Name:
. To get the RDS info for this station,
hover over the red dot at the top of the bar.
Scanned stations with RDS info are shown in the
RDS Stations:
list directly below the scan, along with how many RDS stations
were found. These are listed in ascending frequency along with
their
PI
,
Callsign
, RDS
PTY
and
RSSI
values. Click on any station’s
frequency to immediately tune the 551 to that station and be
taken to the Now Playing Webpage.
Below the RDS Stations: list you’ll find a separate HD Stations: list-
ing. Information there will include the number of HD stations
found, again by ascending Frequency , and which HD Radio Pro-
grams
are being transmitted. The station short
Name
, the
RSSI
reading and the
Cd/No
figure denoting relative quality of the
digital signal are presented there too.
The
Cd/No notation is color-coded in this list. A value greater
than
57
(solid HD Radio reception) will be green, an orange
number is ‘iffy,’ and a red one generally won’t play reliably at
all. As with the
RDS Stations:
listing, clicking on any entry will
immediately tune to that station.
THE LISTENER EXPERIENCE
Definition
The term ‘Listener Experience’ encompasses both the metadata
text (artist/title, etc.) for both the FM and HD Radio programs,
plus the graphic imaging that can optionally accompany each
HD Radio channel. Images can include primary station-identi-
fication ‘Logos,’ and music album artwork or program-
promotion messages called Artist Experience.
Display Options
You’ll find analog-
FM
and all eight
HD
Radio program buttons
at the top of the page. Any of these buttons may be selected,
whether the tuned station has those HD programs or not. Se-
lecting them merely creates a display area farther-down on the
page for the associated data and images. To save space, select
only those buttons that are pertinent to the station and pro-
grams you are monitoring.