Its official: I'm a geek

[legrandefromage]

Blundering around in the taxi a 4.30am, Greg James on radio 1.

He hacks into the RDS text and sends a message:

'if you can read this, take a photo and send it to 89911''

guess who's got probably the last radio text capable head unit and actually knows its there....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gregjames/20 ... e_rds.html

 

[fingers]

Cool!

the gamma HU in my mk4 golf could do that.

Some RDS messaging service option in the menu

 

[Harryburgundy]

Do you think maybe this is one you should have kept to yourself :roll:

 

[Pickle]

I remember the old radio in my Dads L reg Cav doing that

 

[legrandefromage]

I remember the old radio in my Dads L reg Cav doing that

The Grundig SC 303 fitted to your Dad's Chavalier would not have been able to have displayed radio text messages, just the station name.

 

[Easy_Rider]

Don't radios have RDS anymore :shock:
Is mine RDS then, when it displays the station name and then scrolls though what is playing or the current show, i thought all modern ish radios have this :?

 

[legrandefromage]

Don't radios have RDS anymore :shock:
Is mine RDS then, when it displays the station name and then scrolls though what is playing or the current show, i thought all modern ish radios have this :?

All modern car radios have RDS or should have. I've never seen one yet that displays what track is playing, I've only seen DAB recievers do that.

Out in the sticks we only get R1,2,3,4, local BBC, Classic and turgid 'Heart' FM, non of these broadcast track info.

 

[Pickle]

I remember the old radio in my Dads L reg Cav doing that

The Grundig SC 303 fitted to your Dad's Chavalier would not have been able to have displayed radio text messages, just the station name.

I thought its was a Blaupunkt sterio, with the display bit in the middle that popped out as a security feature.

I swear something scrolled accross when we were in France :?

 

[legrandefromage]

I remember the old radio in my Dads L reg Cav doing that

The Grundig SC 303 fitted to your Dad's Chavalier would not have been able to have displayed radio text messages, just the station name.

I thought its was a Blaupunkt sterio, with the display bit in the middle that popped out as a security feature.

I swear something scrolled accross when we were in France :?

one of these?

it was probably scrolling 'eeengleeesh goo hoome!'

 

[Pickle]

Yup, that was it You've got to get out more

Maybe it was a Blaupunkt in his N reg Vectra