In article , polygonum
scribeth thus
On 29/12/2013 20:31, John Williamson wrote:
On 29/12/2013 19:35, polygonum wrote:
On 29/12/2013 18:54, John Williamson wrote:
On 29/12/2013 18:18, Bod wrote:
While we're on this.... any idea why the 9 character limit?

The standard says "The text display must display the Component label in
either its short form (8 characters long) or its long form
(16 characters long). It is not permissible for the receiver to truncate
the label to any other length"

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...t_data/file/20
7937/Domestic_Min__Spec_v1.1_revisedJune13_.pdf




For the full document.

So it seems that for whatever reason, either Arquiva or the BBC have
decided to omit the "E". Or it's a typo that's not been caught yet.

BBC Radio London transmits its name as BBC LONDON on DAB and misses out
the second "O" on FM.

And another case of 9 characters!

I don't have an RDS capable receiver here, so it's possible they miss
out both vowels for a character count of 8, as laid down in the spec for
Programme Service. On the other hand, I've seen scrolling PS data on
British FM car radios being used in Europe, which alternate between the
station name and the track name and artiste currently playing.

As it happens, a traffic announcement interrupted my radio on the way
home this evening, "BBCLONDN" - no space. But the display is pretty
crude and it does look like a bit of a gap between the C and L.


There wouldn't have been, only the 8 digits numbers or marks allowed..

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Tony Sayer