Here in Europe all most every station is using RDS, it's very handy
scanning either domestic FM or distant signals during Summer month
Sporadic E conditions.
Makes identifying very quick.
I have Satellit 700 and love this radio having the RDS !

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Looks promising but my wish is it would have also RDS function on FM.
The once proposed and cancelled flag ship Satellit was to have it.
73 rez

My auto radio has RDS and it is almost worthless. Only a couple
stations in all of Central California use it. And when I was in
Sacramento, only two or three stations there used it. Not widely used
to matter whether the radio has it or not - to me, anyway.

I saw KBS FM-2 use RDS once about a couple years ago, don't know whether
they were just testing it or what, but haven't seen it since.