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Operations & Installation Guide – DOC. 6463A
AM/FM/SR Tuner Card: ATC-AMFMSR
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Appendix: RBDS/RDS Function Support
Many radio stations transmit additional information such as traffic information, radio
text, real time clock etc., with their regular FM programming. The FM tuner contains
circuitry that retrieves this information.
The US format for such information is called the Radio Broadcast Data System
(RBDS) and in Europe this format is called the Radio Data System (RDS). There are
some differences between the US and European standards.
The tables in this appendix describe information included in the standard.
When this feature becomes available and it is accessed by the user the
Display
button will bring to the screen the various tables containing this data.
RBDS/RDS Supported Feature Overview
FEATURES
DESCRIPTION
Program type name
(PTY)
There are 31 program types such as jazz, classic etc.
Each station that supports RDS will report its program
type. (Refer to program type list following this table.)
Program service
name (PS)
The station reports its service name such as WIRL, KTU
etc.
Program type
additional Info
(PTYN)
The station will sometimes report additional information
about its program type. For example, a program type
“Sport” station may report a PTYN of “Football”.
Radio text display
support (RT)
The station will report radio text information such as
phone numbers, artist, song, station name, etc., in this
field. This field could be either 32 or 64 characters in
length.
Universal real time
clock (UTC)
Some stations transmit the universal time clock year,
month, day, hour, minute and GMT offset.
Traffic information
report (TA/TP)
From stations that support traffic information.
Station search by
TA, TP or TA&TP
traffic information
types
The FM Tuner can search for stations which either
broadcast or know about other stations that transmit
traffic information.
TA = This station has information about other stations
that carry traffic announcements.
TP = This station broadcasts traffic announcements but
none is being broadcasted right now.
TA&TP = This station is currently broadcasting the
traffic announcements.
Station search by
PTY
The FM Tuner is able to search for stations with
specified program type.
