FIELD METERS MCT 080 / 081 / 082 / 085 USER MANUAL
10.14 FM-RDS
FM radio demodulation and RDS services display.
RT (Radio Text)
Texts diffusion; few nets use it to send referencies of musics currently playing.
PS (Program Service)
Station name, 8 letters long. The RDS standard explain that these 8 letters must be fixed, and are the
name of the station. In practice, few radio station used this service to pass dynamic informations.
PI (Program Indentification)
PI code is an single code for each station (16 bits display in hexadecimal).
PTY (Program TYpe)
Program Type for current reception, from 32 types predefined.
ECC (Extended Country Code)
PI code est completed with the country code ECC.
The couple PI+ECC made this ID really single for one station all other the world.
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