I had the firmware updated on my i30 yesterday as part of my 12 month/15000 km service. I can now tune in the X-band! Also, the frequency display is a little smaller (it was too big anyway).
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Yes I noticed about 12 months ago when my i30 came out from a service that it now tunes to 1710.
Iām thinking of emailing Hyundai and asking them to widen the AM bandwidth to make it sound nicer.
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I noticed on the map website there is an update for the Kia will try and install.
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I miss read it. Apparently delayed due to Covid.
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I have heard this update may incorporate adding the X-band to the AM receiver. Never realised it was something as simple as a firmware update to do it - great that the car manufacturers are getting on board with this
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After quite a few drives through regional areas of NSW Iāve come to the conclusion that my Prius is picky with how signal a station must have before stopping when scanning. It skips over stations with marginal to good reception which I think most people would find listenable.
Itās at itās worse when it will just scan though the whole FM/AM spectrum and not stop for anything and in the case of when I was near Singleton a couple of weeks ago only stop on one station (Power FM).
Iāll be looking to replace it. Itās a real shame that Sony have disconnected their DAB+ head units.
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Iāve used car radios in the past that would reduce the signal threshold for stopping on a station whilst seeking by pressing scan forward, then scan back and then scan forward again. One radio illuminated the text āDXā on the display when you did this.
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The radio in the work car (a Toyota) is almost the opposite here. Driving around Brisbane the seek routinely misses a number of the local stations from Mt Coot-tha yet will stop on weaker distant ones quite happily. So Iāll seek down from Triple J on 107.7, it will miss Nova 106.9 but stop on Salt 106.5 from the Sunshine Coast which is notably weaker. It does it in many places around town so itās not just a weak signal thing either.
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At the risk of stating the obvious, is there a Local/DX setting anywhere on your radio that will improve the sensitivity of the scan?
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Depending on how close to Mt Coot-tha you are, perhaps overload is causing the radio to not detect a signal? Does it still happen further away?
Itās very odd for a radio to detect only weaker signals.
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I had wondered that, and it does seem to be the high powered stations mostly. But itās still odd that the auto-seek fails to pick up the station from 5km away, yet will happily (and repeatedly) stop on the sub-metro community station from 35km away or the commercials from one of the coasts
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Unless Iām missing something I donāt think soā¦
I canāt see anything in the manual.
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Did you try my suggestion (pressing scan forward, then scan back and then scan forward again)?
Not saying itāll work for sure, but itās a feature thatās often not documented.
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Yeah. No difference (at least nothing came up on the display), hard to tell in a metro area though.
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The latest market report from World DAB said that by the end of June 2020, over 93 million consumer and automotive DAB/DAB+ receivers had been sold in Europe and Asia Pacific.
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My Mitsubishi ASX is a 2016 model, I donāt think many new cars back then were fitted with DAB radio, I listen to DAB all the time in the car ,Smooth Relax is my favourite DAB station now followed by Coles Radio .
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Me too. Iām on DAB most of the time in the car. The only FM stations I listen to are Breeze, Rebel and 99.7.
Smooth Relax is a great listen, itās what Smooth FM used to be.
Triple M Classic Rock and Easy Hits are probably number 2 and 3 in the car.
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fault
its error
It was a deliberate move by Tesla, nothing less.
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$800 to enable something in software is scandalous
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