MWmetalhead wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 8:37 pm
The RDS on 92.5 when I checked early this afternoon still said "92.5 NASH ICON." What a cluster----!!!
I did hear liners on-air with local IDs, however.
92.5 is mostly correct in their RDS. All PS info shows as Sunny. However, the engineer needs to change the RT and PTY still. 97.5's PTY remains the same as before (PTY None, which in itself isn't so correct, but it was that from the start) and also needs to be changed, though they changed the old 97.5 RDS (typical RDS format for 98.3, 100.1, etc. as "Muskegon's [insert station name]" and added it as Muskegon's Nash Icon for the PS.
You can always spot a "just doing my job but don't really care too much" engineer when just the PS data is changed, or better yet, when they use RDS instead of RDBS for the PTY. 94.5 did that for the longest time. Seems to especially be a country station issue in all my experience with it, though unsure why. You know that when the station shows up as "PTY PTY 25" instead of "PTY Country," (25 is Country on the RDS system, but it should 10 should be selected for RDBS, which is the system we use here), though it depends on which technology is being used to display it (older, newer, etc.) and if it automatically tries to fix that issue. Mine, which is some of the earliest RDBS technology, does not.
My thoughts: if you can't (or don't know how to) use your equipment correctly, don't waste your money on it. (Or: don't waste your money on an engineer who does a half-ass job that has to come back and fix it because they didn't care enough the first time). I know some damn good engineers and this kind of stuff is very
basic for them. I know not everyone is a crazy tech wizard, but it makes you wonder... if someone can't get this little detail right, what else can't they do?
If I were the engineer, I would get all the RDS details right. Then the station would promptly go off the air because I know nothing else about engineering
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At least they're on the air I guess.
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