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Menu No.
Menu Item Description
Jog Wheel Editing Procedure
03
DPS is the Dynamic PS message (e.g.: song title
and artist information) that will be parsed as re-
quired and scrolled across the faceplate of any RDS
radio. DPS messaging is normally sent from the
station’s playout system, but it also may be entered
manually from a computer. There is also provision
for a default DPS message, which is sent if a nor-
mal DPS update is not received within a specified
time period (see Menu 04).
Up to 128 characters of DPS messaging may be
sent to the 730 Encoder in one data transfer. The
message is held in encoder memory and parsed
according to the DPSS rate setting (see Menu 07).
The LCD screen limits this display to the first 72
characters of the DPS message.
The DPS message may be entered or edited with the
jog wheel exactly as the PS entry was done in the
example at the beginning of this section. Refer back
to this exercise for instructions on text entry.
When a DPS message is entered or edited with the
jog wheel, an Enter command must be the very last
character. An Enter command is the little arrow that
hooks down and to the left:
. This is the fifth cha-
racter following the lowercase ‘z’ in the character
selection order. After entering text, dial up
as the
final character and press the jog wheel. This will
finalize the entry and exit the operation. If simply
editing an existing message, as a final action navi-
gate to the
at the end of the text string and press
the jog wheel.
To clear the entire field, simply dial-up
as the first
character in the field and press the jog wheel again.
This Enter command will clear the following character
entries.
Following a jog wheel data entry exercise, you’ll ap-
preciate that complex entries are best made using the
encoder software, where messages may be typed
and uploaded quickly and easily.
04
The 730 Encoder includes a novel feature that can
save your station from an embarrassing situation.
In the event that playout system data is interrupted
(a data link loss for example), rather than have the
last song title show on the listener’s radio indefinite-
ly, a DPSDEFAULT message may be uploaded to
the encoder, where it is held in nonvolatile memory.
If a dynamic PS message is not updated within a
predetermined period of time (Menu 05), the default
message is substituted and sent out until a new
DPS message is received.
Again, the jog wheel may be used to enter the default
DPS message, in which case the rules in the previous
instruction for DPS apply. The 730 Encoder Win-
dows
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software also has an entry field for DPSDefault
under the Tools menu. This message may range
from a static station PS ‘street name’ entry to a sta-
tion promo announcement… whatever wants to show
on the listener’s radio when the encoder fails to re-
ceive dynamic messaging (DPS) after the determined
interval.
05
DPSTIMER is the interval, in minutes, between
receiving the last legitimate DPS message and the
substitution of the DPSDEFAULT message when
this feature is enabled.
Push the jog wheel and set the DPSTIMER to any
value between 1 minute and 255 minutes, and then
push the jog wheel again to set the selected time.
Set the time to 0 (zero) minutes to disable the feature.
When disabled, the last DPS message received will
be sent continuously until a new one is sent to the
encoder.
