RDS station names (PSs) and PI codes list

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RDS station names (PSs) and PI codes list

For Justin Speck, and anyone else who collects this info, or is
curious about RDS, all this was collected recently with the RDS
decoder chip in a tuner interfaced to a PC via the serial port and
a freeware program (pity its in German). Worth mentioning that
most ordinary RDS receivers show everything as upper case
i.e. "LYRIC FM" instead of "Lyric FM"

at home (I needed a directional aerial to get a few of these with RDS):

| Datum | Zeit | PI | PS >|*|P |T|T|M|DI|Groups|
| | | | |-|TY|P|A|S| | |
|----------|--------|----|--------|-|--|-|-|-|--|------|
|01.08.2002;00:34:42|2201|Radio 1 |*| 9|0|1|M| 1|000067| 90.0 etc
|01.08.2002;00:34:58|2202| 2fm |*|10|1|0|M| 1|00004C| 92.2
|01.08.2002;00:35:12|2204| RnaG |*| 7|0|1|M| 1|00004B| 94.4
|31.07.2002;09:53:58|214B|LIVE95FM|*| 9|0|0|M| 1|000C4F| 95.0
|05.08.2002;10:59:49|2422| WLR FM |-| 9|1|0|S| 1|00001A| 95.1
|01.08.2002;00:35:34|2084| 96FM |*|10|1|0|M| 0|0001E1| 96.4
|01.08.2002;00:36:09|2418| KERRY |*| 9|1|0|S| 1|00003C| 97.0
|01.08.2002;00:36:56|2203|Lyric FM|*|13|0|1|M| 1|000035| 99.6
|01.08.2002;00:37:05|2205|Today FM|*| 9|1|0|M| 1|0004A5| 101.8
|01.08.2002;00:52:06|2513| 103FM |*|10|1|0|S| 1|00007F| 103.7
|01.08.2002;00:52:24|2613| 103FM |*|10|0|0|S| 1|000022| 103.3 (West Cork)
|01.08.2002;12:42:31|2058|Love RLO|*| 0|0|0|M| 4|000144| 104.2
|01.08.2002;00:26:56|2433| RedFM |*|10|1|0|M| 7|000591| 106.1
|01.08.2002;13:02:12|80E3|ICB 1 |*| 9|0|0|S| 0|00005A| 106.9 (UCB relay!)


additions, got when staying in Co Clare:

| Datum | Zeit | PI | PS >|*|P |T|T|M|DI|Groups|
| | | | |-|TY|P|A|S| | | freq
|----------|--------|----|--------|-|--|-|-|-|--|------| received on:
|08.08.2002|02:14:23|241E|MID-WEST|*| 9|1|0|M| 1|00000C| 96.1
|08.08.2002|02:01:06|2412|Clare FM|*| 9|1|0|M| 1|000006| 96.4
|08.08.2002|02:13:27|2417|G BAY FM|*|12|1|0|M| 1|00006B| 96.8
In Co.Clare could just about get galway Bay FM's Galway city 95.8
out on the car radio. The RDS name changed to " GBFM " during
the nightly opt-outs!

[Justin Speck]

Thanks for thinking of me!

I've often thought about trying to get a similar setup running myself but sloth has so far prevented me!

If you need any help with the German let me know.

J

[trev]

While we're on the subject of RDS, does any one know where i could get a datasheet for the BU1923F RDS chip, as it's the type used in my Bush portable radio, and i want to decode RDS data like Justin Speck above??

[soundblaster]

Trev, do you have anymore info on that chip like:

Who manufactured it
What does it do
Is it a a PIC chip or EEPROM???

Let me know and i'll try and source the Data sheet for you??

[Justin Speck]

If you're *really* keen, you could download the datasheet at:
http://www.chipdocs.com/pndecoder/datasheets/ROHM/BU1923F.html

However, they want money! The chip is made by Rohm. Have a look at www.rohm.com. They don't list the 1923. Maybe it has been superceded by the 1924.

BTW, 021, which program are you using, there are two or three all of which are of German origin.

J

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RDSS0375.exe is the program concerned.
take a look
www.ping.be/~wijnherm/software.html
which includes a link to download it (and 3 others)

There can be problems getting this one to run on fast PCs!

trev
Its easy enough to tell which pins are DATA and CLOCK on an RDS decoder chip using a oscilloscope, that’s how I did it.

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Temporary station CSN-FM (107.2), licenced for 30 Thursdays during the academic year (first one yesterday), from the broadcasting/media course at CSN, also has RDS, "CSN-FM ":

| Datum | Zeit | PI | PS >|*|P |T|T|M|DI|
| | | | |-|TY|P|A|S| |
|----------|--------|----|--------|-|--|-|-|-|--|
|03.10.2002|19:49:17|2090|CSN-FM |*| 9|0|0|M| 1|

pir8 station Friendly (104.0) PS= "Friendly" , PI ="0000"
This and the original posting gives details of all the stations with RDS in Cork city and County, some surrounding county stations as well as national stations.
(BTW the date and time above (when the station was tuned in) is the PC's clock (its not from RDS data))

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To make a correction to my last post, CSN FM are on 30 days for the academic year MOSTLY Thursdays, but also some other days
full list:
3rd, 12th, 17th, & 24th October 2002
7th, 14th, 21st, 28th November 2002.
5th and 12th December 2002
9th , 16th , 23rd and 30th January 2003
4th, 6th, 11th, 13th, 18th & 20th February 2003
4th, 6th, 11th, 13th, 19th , 21st, 25th & 27th March 2003
3rd and 10th April 2003

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Updated RDS info:

Received within the past day:
| Datum | Zeit | PI | PS |*|P |T|T|M|DI|
| Date | Time | |(name) |-|TY|P|A|S| | freq I received on:
|----------|--------|----|--------|-|--|-|-|-|--|
|03.07.2003|23:45:15|2201|Radio 1 |*| 9|0|1|M| 1| multiple freqs
|03.07.2003|23:47:29|2202| 2fm |*|10|1|0|M| 1| multiple freqs
|04.07.2003|00:41:30|2204| RnaG |*| 7|0|1|M| 1|via Spur Hill (93.6), Maghera (93.2)
|03.07.2003|23:48:32|2204| R na G |*| 7|0|1|M| 1|via Mullaghanish (94.4) + relays
|04.07.2003|09:58:05|241B|Live95FM|*| 9|0|0|M| 1| 95.0
|03.07.2003|21:03:42|2422| WLR FM |*| 9|1|0|S| 1| 95.1
|03.07.2003|21:04:49|2084| 96FM |*| 0|1|0|S| 7| via Mt Hillary (96.1)
|03.07.2003|23:52:34|2084| 96FM |*|10|1|0|M| 1| via Hollyhill (96.4) etc
|03.07.2003|21:05:51|2418| KERRY |*| 9|1|0|S| 1| 97.0
|03.07.2003|21:06:12|2203|Lyric FM|*|13|0|1|M| 1| multiple freqs
|03.07.2003|20:43:52|2205|Today FM|*| 9|1|0|M| 1| multiple freqs
|03.07.2003|23:08:28|23E0| Beat |*|10|1|0|M| 5| 102.2
|03.07.2003|21:10:58|2513|Corks103|*|10| 1|0|M| 1| 102.6, 103.7 (103FM)
|03.07.2003|23:35:18|2613| 103FM |*|10|1|0|S| 1| 103.3 (103FM West version)
|03.07.2003|23:35:31|0000|Friendly|*|10| 1|0|M| 0| 104.0
|04.07.2003|13:28:55|C204| BBC R4 |*| 3|0|1|M| 9| 104.9
|03.07.2003|21:11:21|2433| RedFM |*|10|1|0|M| 7| 106.1 etc
|03.07.2003|22:38:28|80E3|I.C.B. |*| 9|0|0|S| 0| 106.9 (UCB)

During Skip (Sporadic-E) conditions on 5/6/2003 got the following Spanish
stations (I didn't note frequencies):

|05.06.2003|16:50:08|E235|CUARENTA|*|11| 1|-|-|-?|
|05.06.2003|17:09:29|E303|E.GAZTEA|*|10| 1|0|M| 9|

2FM from Crosshaven relay (90.4) being off-air for a couple of days
some time ago allowed me to receive BBC R3 on 90.3:

|29.04.2003|09:37:24|C203| BBC R3 |*|14|0|1|M| 9|

Two stations have differing PS or PTY from different transmitters! (see above). All received with dipole aerial on tall mast. 'Live 95FM' from Limerick sometimes briefly comes through good enough for RDS when planes fly overhead! (due to reflections).

M/S indicates if station is mainly music (M) or speech (S) ! some contradictions above.

If your wondering what the PTY (Programme Type) numbers stand for see below.
I noticed BBC R4 changing PTY to match the programme. Not sure if any Irish stations do this.

PTY: 0 - undefined, 1 - News, 2 - Current Affairs, 3 - Information, 4 - Sport, 5 - Education, 6 - Drama, 7 - Culture, 8 - Science, 9 - Varied, 10 - Pop Music, 11 - Rock Music, 12 - Easy Listening (MOR) Music, 13 - Light Classical, 14 - Serious Classical, 15 - Other Music, 16 - Weather, 17 - Finance, 18 - Children's Programmes, 19 - Social affairs, 20 - Religion, 21 - Phone In, 22 - travel, 23 - Leisure, 24 - Jazz Music, 25 - Country, 26 - National Music, 27 - Oldies, 28 - Folk Music, 29 - Documentary, 30 - Alarm Test, 31 - Alarm.

Toyota car radios I have seen must not decode this properly as Lyric FM PTY (13) shows as "Pop" on them!!

Hopefully certain people find all this interesting.

[Liamo]

Clare FM have recently changed one of their transmitters. The 95.9 and 96.4 transmitters have 2 differently-cased versions of "CLARE FM" and "Clare FM"

[Mike]

City Beat 96.7 CITYBEAT C090
BBC Radio 1 Radio_1_ C201
BBC Radio 2 _BBC_R2_ C202
BBC Radio 3 _BBC_R3_ C203
BBC Radio 4 _BBC_R4_ C204
BBC Radio 4 _BBC_R4_ C204
Classic FM Classic_ C2A1
BBC R nan Gaidheal BBC_Gael C316
BBC R Ulster BBC_Ulst C319
BBC R Cymru BBCymru_ C327
Manx Radio (weekdays) _MANX_FM C3BE
BBC R Scotland BBC_Scot C415
BBC R Wales BBCWales C418
BBC R Foyle BBC_Fyle C419
Cool FM Cool_FM_ C5B2
Causeway Coast Radio _Q97.2__ C7B6
Q101.2 West FM _Q101.2_ C9B6
Downtown Radio Downtown CC86
Mid 106 MID_106_ CCB0
Q102.9 FM _Q_102.9 C4B6
Energy IOM _ENERGY_ C080

http://www.dxradio.demon.co.uk/ukrds.html
http://www.rds.org.uk/
http://home.pi.be/~wijnherm/picodes.html
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/t/58514/ds.html

[adro947]

I love replying to really old posts like this. I have a very big interest in RDS and before the launch of NEWSTALK i recieved some very interesting stations, i don't know how but the RDS names stuck in my head so here you are
87.7 - __PLAY__ - (POP M) French - seemed to advertise a wine festival in Bordeaux? - Good enough even with language barrier picked up time and time again
95.8 - ONDACERO - Unknown location - shite
102.4 - EUROPE 2 - Unknown Location - Speech
90.0 - 92.2 ????? - ??? 1 - German - Good - I study the German language and she said "Mein Englisch ist schlecht" when attempting to translate a song - that meant "My English is (bad/shit etc.)"
107.8 - R ITALIA - prob. italian but questionable due to high frequency usually you would expect main national stations to be located low in the band?
there are many more but those stuck in my head.
one very interesting thing was picking up Galaxy FM - a favourite of mine form Sky digital - some fluke
well now you are either gasping for more or bored out of your skull so bye now.:)

[discokid]

I have seen this before I think it is weather conditions.High presure brings in the stations from Europe on fm i have picked up some from Spain quiet a bit.