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Old 28th November 2006, 14:58   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Pottsy View Post
Kevin - welcome!

I have an EX and the radio works perfectly. The ability to hear weak stations is astonishing, possibly the best I've ever had (right up there with a £1000 Alpine). So I wonder if the problem is limited to non EX cars.

Here's a demo.

1. Go into diagnostic mode by pressing and holding (in order) 1, 6 and then press the power on button.

2. Press and hold FM for a few seconds to see the signal strength.

3. Tune R4 on 93.7 (strength 43 db).

4. After 20 seconds or so, the RDS AF re-tunes to 92.7 (strength 64 db).


If you try to tune a weak station (on mine about 17-22 db) where I get good hiss-free sound, but there's no RDS data, it will not re-tune because it doesn't know the AF frequencies.

Pottsy
Got to agree with you there Pottsy, did the same as you. Tuned to 93.7 (strength 30-35 db) within about 20 secs radio had retuned to 92.9 (strength 60-65 db). I have an EX too if that helps.
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