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Radios with Stations ID
Sony makes a SW digital model that shows the country on the radio.
How is this possible? Is the signal from the broadcaster that does this to the radio? Does it even shows the stations callsign? As a part of my DXing is just identifying country or stations callsigns. Although, the more information you could get from the signal, the more fun it could become. One good thing about the Internet, once you have a stations callsign, usually you could just go anytime to their website and get more information. Wouldn't it be great if a SW radio could do that? LOL! I hope satellite radio doesn't replace old shortwave! 73 |
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S R wrote:
Sony makes a SW digital model that shows the country on the radio. How is this possible? snip They program it into a rom chip - if it's 5975, it must be London. |
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S R,
My Sangean ATS-909 would look like that to someone that walked by and saw me using it. Sangean fills the pages of memory at the factory and label each page by country. If you enter a frequency manually (that corresponds to say, the BBC world service) it will automatically jump to that "page" (which, in that case would display "England"). Many FM stations are carrying "RDS" coded info now, but the display would not say the country -- it would generally show the call letters of the station, name of the artist and song, etc. The ATS-909 has that capability as well. -- Stinger "S R" wrote in message ... Sony makes a SW digital model that shows the country on the radio. How is this possible? Is the signal from the broadcaster that does this to the radio? Does it even shows the stations callsign? As a part of my DXing is just identifying country or stations callsigns. Although, the more information you could get from the signal, the more fun it could become. One good thing about the Internet, once you have a stations callsign, usually you could just go anytime to their website and get more information. Wouldn't it be great if a SW radio could do that? LOL! I hope satellite radio doesn't replace old shortwave! 73 |
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"Mark S. Holden" wrote:
S R wrote: Sony makes a SW digital model that shows the country on the radio. How is this possible? snip They program it into a rom chip - if it's 5975, it must be London. You can't always believe the country ID's on these receivers, since countries often change their frequencies. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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