I got a lift home from an NRL Grand Final Party last night in a friends late model Subaru XV.
It had a large touchscreen display with RDS, but the list of stations they had presetted was interesting
KOFM
Hit1069
WSFM
104.1 FM
TRIPLE M
106.5 FM
This was a local car (Newcastle), all stations being commercial, no Central Coast stations and no station names for KIIS or 2DAY… quite interesting I thought.
I was in the car with other people and a belly full of beer (mine that is), so I wasn’t game to ask questions about their presets
I’m quite happy with 1 and 2 there thanks very much - hope you heard me paneling last night - 20 minutes of Macklemore on KOFM (fully branded with our sweepers) - sounded shit hot!
Further to my previous posts about Gold FM’s rebrand on the Gold Coast, they’ve now updated their station name RDS to reflect this. It now reads as ‘Gold 925’. The sister station remains unchanged as ‘SEA-FM’ (both in name and RDS)
And this is what the slightest bit of cochannelling does to RDS (in this case, thanks to 2CHR Cessnock). Even though the audio is clear, still can’t get Song info clearly
The Breeze has had to adjust their AF RDS.
A note from their Facebook page:
Breeze 92.1 Logan: If your radio displays BREEZE92 and you’ve lost all reception in the last week only (where it used to be good), and you’ve got us stored in a memory preset button, then there is an easy fix:
Please scan/search your radio down to 92.1, wait a minute, then freshly re-store the station to your preset button.
This issue affected a small percentage of radios. We made a change to prevent whats been reported as an ‘annoying CD skipping’ effect that can occur when some RDS radios constantly auto tune between 92.1 & 100.6 where both can be received.
If you commute between Logan and Gold Coast Region, please create separate presets for 92.1 & 100.6
