Next RDS Forum meeting on 21 & 22 October 2024 at Geneva
RDS Forum - the association of RDS users
In 2018 WorldCast Systems in Bordeaux announced two RDS2 innovations:
- FM MC5 - a multipurpose measuring equipment for analysis and with full RDS2 capabilities.
- The new RDS MPX encoder with full RDS2 functionality compliant with the new RDS standard IEC 62106-1 to 6, such as with dead wood deleted, the upper streams with C-type groups and the Long PS using UTF-8 character coding, all included for a prize in the order of magnitude of the previous RDS encoder version. So, a simple replacement can be done, just plug and play.
https://www.worldcastsystems.com/en/c22p107/rds-encoding/audemat-rds-encoder
In 2023, the Audemat RDS decoder is still only RDS2 ready. This means that it has not yet the new version of the UECP, as standardized in IEC 62106-10 fully implemented. Potential users of RDS2 impatiently wait for this obstacle to be removed soon.
The RDS Forum looks forward to announcing soon, and still during 2023, such a very important and essential innovation to have happened.
From MacBe in the Netherlands you can obtain a USB stick, the RX014, a receiver that is a universal RDS/RDS2 data monitor and analyser with associated software for Windows. For more details see here