Re: [OT] Pioneer stereo question

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

Bob <mx@snet.net> wrote:
>>
>> The most important feature of RDS is the ability to interrupt the
>> radio/tape/cd program with a traffic bulletin, as you are
>> doing 160mph on the autobahn, coming up to a 50 car pileup
>> ahead...
>>
>
>A feature that I might point out was more than slightly annoying driving
>down the autobahn. Im sure it would be helpful if used right (and it may
>be, I dont speak german) but it always interrupted the music on the
>radio, and never ONCE did we see a problem up ahead. For All I know they
>were trying to tell me about a K-Mart Blue light special...
>
...and the radio volume I usually use on highway trips is _totally_
inappropriate for traffic bulletins. It would scare me silly.
I believe there was some measure in later RDS systems that turned the
volume for traffic bulletins down to a pre-set level.

A problem with Dutch traffic bulletins is that they rarely seem to list the
traffic jam I'm in.

Tom

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 Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
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