PCS-Electronics

As a satisfied RDS MAX 4000+ user i'm looking for a list of the complete serial protocol to control the rds encoder.
At the end of the manual there are a few examples and they are clear to me, but i want to control time/pty and more.
Also in the manual it says that the whole protocol will be ...

Het is zeker een leuke functie maar eerst je RDSmax goed aan de praat, kunnen we dan wel verder met de winamp functie. :D

Aansluiten:

MPXout van de DSPX naar MPXin RDSmax en MPXout van de RDSmax naar de zender.
De rode led moet nu uit zijn is dat niet het geval probeer dan het pilootlevel van de ...

Toch wel grappig om op deze manier meer Nederlandse RDSmax gebruikers tegen te komen :D zelf gebruik ik um op 35 achter een DBMAX...

Maar als ik het zo lees weet ik niet of jouw problemen alleen maar het niet locken van de RDS is, zelfs al is de RDSmax niet gelocked dan nog zou de RDs gewoon goed ...

RDS max 4.0? or do you mean RDS max4000+?

I'm using the same RDS encoder without any problems (i think it's one off the best none professional RDS encoders you can buy! for a very good price!) and compared to the RDSmax3.0 (which i have also) a MUCH! better RDS encoder.

Maybe your sound/mpx level ...

Oh yes it's real fun :D for my decoder i have to study all about these RDS groups...
Especially those ODA groups are fun...

Sometimes it's a bummer, i have only ONE! station who transmits PTYN so after finishing my code to put this 10A group on my display, i discovered that they only transmit 8 ...

Damm these bits are going to kill me... nothing wrong with ECC works like a charm...

Forgot to connect serial cable...

I was doing a little testing today and i noticed that i can't change the extended country code of my RDS4000+

If i change it to whatever i choose in the program (E0...E4) it will always output code 3

Grtzz Yagi

Stupid me, it's info about mono/stereo compression etc.

Grtzz Yagi

Maybe some off the RDS experts from PCS can help me on this one... :D

I'm making a RDS decoder to go with my communications receiver and this decoder is intend for 'amateur use' so it can display more information on a LCD then a regular RDS decoder. (like used groups, PI, blok error counter etc ...

Since a few weeks i have the new RDS4000+ RDSencoder in use and i have to say it's GREAT!
I'm a real 'time' freak :D so this new function @TIME and @DATE really fits my needs! (normal time in RDStext)
Also i'm not a radiostation but a DX amateur with wideband fm so in bad conditions i can switch-off ...

Thanks Marko, i send you a PM hope to hear.

Grtzz Yagi

Big bummer today, after many hours of labour my SE4+ and RDS MAX where almost build in a cabinet...
What wend wrong is still a puzzle, but suddenly my RDS was gone and the red led isn't flashing anymore :(

So i think the Atmel of the RDS is gone... i still can measure crystal activity and it gets ...

After building my SE4+ in a cabinet i did some testing and found a disturbing bug in the control of the DSP...

When i switch preemphasis to 50uS the whole! amplitude is amplified and in such a way that the sound gets distorted!
When i switch to *off* or 75uS there is no problem...

I tested it with ...

Hmm i think BBcode don't like the word 'value' between brackets

what it should say:

val=value

To change only PS01 in Hallo i have to do this:

<byte>PS01<byte>PS01Hallo<byte>

and set delay 5sec

<byte>PD01<byte>05<byte>

Grtzz Yagi

Thank you for the quick answer, i also thought about cutting of the RDS level but i did not know that connecting it to earth is no problem (i will use a small omron relais as i don't won't long wires carrying my RDS signal)

About this protocol you wrote three times <startbyte> :) but if i ...

Is there a possibillity to switch the RDS encoder on/off when it's still in my MPX line?
As a DX station i sometimes have to switch off RDS, a relay between the MPX line is not a option.
Is there maybe a pin on the atmel processor which i can control? or maybe on the PLL?

Other question is where i ...

More then a year ago now, i put this picture on the forum to show my electronic loving cat.

Sadly i have to say that after 17years i had to put her to sleep last thursday...

Hmm ican't edit the post, but i forgot something about the TA switch.

When i measure one point of the switch is connected to GND the other two are connected to the microprocessor, so it's a pull-down switch...
But when i measure on the switch there is almost no difference in opening the switch or ...

After using the RDS max for a while i decided to give it a nice 19" box (together with SE4 stereo encoder)

For this i want the RS232 on the back from my 19" casing, to avoid ground loops a like the galvanic separation from the RDS-MAX... :D
but it's not 100% separated the transmit from the RDS Max ...

Sorry Mark it's a sad thing when one of your pets dies this way...

This is my 16years! old cat, no traffic for her to danger but more here boss with electronics :lol:
(i once found here sleeping on one of my tube amplifiers)
She really loves heat, so she is very pleased with my hobby...

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