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The RDS Guidelines are for broadcasters, transmission operators and RDS equipment and receiver manufacturers to provide RDS implementation advice. They contain in fact the collective RDS implementation know-how of the RDS Forum members.

hese RDS Guidelines were last updated in 2013/4 with the aim to add more implementation advice.

The Guidelines are free for non-members of the RDS Forum. An order form can be downloaded from here.

The Guidelines can be downloaded as a PDF for free at your own choice and it can be opened with a password that is available upon request.

IGL no. Title
1 About the Programme Service name
PS (static & dynamic)
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2 About the Programme Identification
PI & Extended Country Codes ECC
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3 About Programme Type coding PTY & PTYN
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5 About Radiotext RT/RT+
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6 About cross referenced services
EON & Linkage
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7 About Alternative Frequencies (AFs)
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8 About Clock Time & Date feature
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9 About Open Data Applications ODA
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10 About RDS receiver concepts
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11 About Radiotext eRT
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12 About an RDS & DAB feature comparison
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13 About Regionalisation
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14 About Traffic Programme & Traffic Announcement flag coding
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15 About Service Following by RDS & DAB mobile receivers
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16 About RDS in Smart phones and Tablets
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17 About broadcasting and reception in road tunnels
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