Yeah been a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes at 4DDB to make the station the best it can be
Yes I mentioned that recently (perhaps in another thread like DX or community) that when they returned to air it was without their RDS.
Perhaps theyâre using another transmitter without RDS whilst current one being repaired. I donât know & could only speculate, but has been without RDS for a couple of
weeks or so now, a while at least.
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You are correct our transmitter has gone to Melbourne for repair and we currently using a loan transmitter, hopefully our will be back soon.
Paul
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RDS is back on 95.7 Classic fm Wollongong / Illawarra.
ABC Clas
This time they are trialing scrolling text.
âLife âs Better with Musicâ
Classic fm Sydney is using different RDS to Wollongong.
Classic
Scrolling text is artist and song title.
I am assuming they have not enabled the AF to 92.9 / 102.3 as the RDS is different.
@ozbark can you have a look at this one for me?
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Thanks for the headsup @Ant5476
Hereâs a pic.
So whatâs changed is the PI code for 95.7 Wollongong.
Itâs now 205A, which like with what SBS did in choosing a different PI code for
each major city, not sure why SBS did that with a large distance separation between cities. Anyway I digress.
Yes thereâs a static RT for Wollongong with: âLifeâs Better with Musicâ
NB. The RadioText (RT) length is limited by the RDS standard to 64 characters maximum .
Some tuners canât display all 64 characters within their display so the tuner itself may scroll to display all the RT over time.
I also note that 95.7 AFâs are listed as: 92.9 & 102.3 as a filler
Not sure of the purpose of the AFâs as I donât believe a frequency shift can occur with
different PI codes. I think having AFâs transmitter just speeds up the process of tuner frequency switching where PI codes match (or the last 2 characters of). Interesting.
I wonder if the techs had some switching issue complaints in previous test?
92.9 ABC Classic (SYD) has the original PI code intact. I too note the song/artist RT is back. Group 2A.
Thereâs no AF frequencies for 92.9 RDS, irrelevant anyway as per above.
Finally I think the techs have done a great job finding a âsafeâ PI code of 205A.
I canât find any other instances of it in our RDS list 
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Thatâs so odd that itâs now been switched back on again so soon⌠and that the PS has been swapped with 92.9 Sydney.
Hopefully a sign that a regional RDS rollout might be just around the corner?
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Thank you, excellent information. I will be out in the work truck tomorrow and will see if the AF does work with the different PI Code.
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Hopefully Triple J Illawarraâs RDS comes back too.
I wonder when Classic / Triple J Newcastle will get RDS?
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Who knows 
With RT on their DAB+ service, why would they not consider it if their FM transmitters were capable of it or if funds were available to slowly roll it out?
I recall years ago hearing a story about some stodgy ABC FM purist complaining that
that RDS affected the purity of ABC Classic music & I think the RDS was stopped for a period of time. I donât know where they were located, but that story goes back a while. Probably his receiving setup wasnât the best or tuner wasnât tuned well enough?
It would be the next logical place for it.
If someone tracks recent ABC FM transmitter replacements, then maybe
someone could make some guesses�??
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Oh what a load of bullshit these audio purist nutcases go on with
With FM audio generally been hard limited to 15khz and RDS not beginning until up in the 50ish KHz they should go back to their CDâs where they have 22.05khz audio response 
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Out around Dural in my travels, and in a good signal area for 95.7 Classic fm Illawarra. I can confirm that the AF to 92.9 Sydney no longer works with the different PI code used between Sydney and the Illawarra
Also 95.7 is using a higher RDS sub carrier for their RDS compared to Sydney. On 95.7 the RDS decodes even with a weak signal , whereas you need a strong clean signal for the full RDS decode of Classic fm Sydney.
I have not checked if Sydney and the Illawarra are still in sync, but now that is not required with the AF no longer working.
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98.5 FM Perth new PS and a new RT message. Not sure if this is a permanent change or temporary for the stations 35 year anniversary.
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Looks like a rebrand for 98five:
Itâs like these âChristianâ stations take a crash cause on how to look anything but religious.
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Just came across an incorrect RDS song issue on Coast FM Gosford that @RFBurns may like to know about.
The Faith No More version of âEasyâ was on a few minutes ago but the RDS credited the original versionâs artist The Commodores.
Not sure if the issue is isolated to that song or whether itâs a systemic issue in relation of how it gathers the artist info?
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Iâll look into that, the RDS gets itâs song title/artist info straight out of Zetta, thatâs what the track will be labelled as in the music library.
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Thanks! Iâm assuming itâs most likely isolated to that song then, i havenât seen it before.
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Iâd imagine so
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@Radiohead I know youâre pretty good with songs & artists, but I have to ask, are you 100% that the Easy version played on Coast FM this afternoon was Faith No More version?
I havenât checked the actual audio yet, Iâll check tonight on the logger too, but the Content Director checked & Zetta music log says it was the Commodores version that was played & the song is labelled correctly in the music library, the Faith No More version is in the music library under a different category to the one that was logged as being played by Zetta. The RDS log did show it as by the Commodores.
After missing for a few weeks, 96Five Brisbaneâs RDS is back
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Hi thanks for checking and following up.
I thought it was the Faith No More version, but i just had another listen to the Commodores version, and they do sound a bit more similar than i first thought. So i may have been mistaken possibly.
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