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Control Software / Re: 0x0D issue in Magic RDS
« Last post by Jan on April 19, 2026, 09:51:45 am »I completely understand your point of view and we will take your comment into consideration at the earliest opportunity. But there are other points of view as well.
With all due respect, these systems are designed for other use than hobby DX reception. By the way, it's a nice hobby that I also pursued. Various incompatibilities and proprietary solutions of commercial FM receivers are a long-term problem which is an obstacle to development of new RDS services. Some "features", such as the completely unexpected truncation of Radiotext on some new car radios, prove that the developers have probably gone completely crazy.
We introduced the RT+ service, Long PS or broadcasting of diacritical marks (ěščřžý etc.) here in the Czech republic. Although majority of stations here can use these options today, only a small portion of them actually do it. They could simply turn it on with a few clicks, but they won't. I say this just to illustrate who is actually stuck in a time decades ago. Many stations incl. the public service radio still rely on deprecated dynamic PS. They are still convinced that they have reasons for this. Change is usually met with great displeasure. I don't blame anyone, it's just a fact.
With all due respect, these systems are designed for other use than hobby DX reception. By the way, it's a nice hobby that I also pursued. Various incompatibilities and proprietary solutions of commercial FM receivers are a long-term problem which is an obstacle to development of new RDS services. Some "features", such as the completely unexpected truncation of Radiotext on some new car radios, prove that the developers have probably gone completely crazy.
We introduced the RT+ service, Long PS or broadcasting of diacritical marks (ěščřžý etc.) here in the Czech republic. Although majority of stations here can use these options today, only a small portion of them actually do it. They could simply turn it on with a few clicks, but they won't. I say this just to illustrate who is actually stuck in a time decades ago. Many stations incl. the public service radio still rely on deprecated dynamic PS. They are still convinced that they have reasons for this. Change is usually met with great displeasure. I don't blame anyone, it's just a fact.
, also... there are many users who probably don't have the latest firmware (example offline broadcast sites, etc.)
with the carriage return character 0x0D, that being the addition of spaces before the 0x0D character. Implementation from other known brands include 0x0D as the first character in the 2A group, and afterwards how many spaces are needed to fill the group.