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User Manual
Rev. 1.0 - 03/08/05
Radiodata is the fruit of work undertaken by a specialized UER group, based on five
proposals formulated by Sweden, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Finland and France.
The superiority of this system results mainly from its protection from transmission
errors, crucial for in-car reception, high speed to synchronize the data groups, from
its high data rate, its potential for new applications and flexibility of use.
The spectrum of a multiplex, stereophonic signal, containing data is shown in fig.1.
Figure 1
The signal is transmitted by amplitude modulating, in suppressed carrier mode, a 57
KHz (3 times the 19 KHz pilot) subcarrier with a deviation of ± 2 KHz of the RF
carrier, retaining a maximum deviation of ± 75 KHz for the multiplex, composite audio/
data signal.
Data transmission speed is 1187.5 bit/s and, being biphase coded, produces a
spectrum of about ± 2 KHz around the 57 KHz frequency which is suppressed-
carrier modulated.
Carrier suppression is required to enable co-existance with ARI signals, since the
latter transmits information using narrow-band (about 250 Hz) DSB amplitude
modulation.
The most important waveforms produced by this modulation are shown in fig.2
below.