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Radio Data System

	R.D.S.quick synthesis	This column will allow you to know quickly all the functionalities of the RDS. You will find here the responses to your questions on the functions RDS of your car radio ...
	Detailed presentation of R.D.S.	These pages describe completely the encoding RDS. You will find here the principle used for a transmission RDS of a radio FM, as well as the detailed contents of all the data sets allowing the use of the RDS available functions.

The description of the RDS standard include in these pages of this site are extracted from the US standard RBDS 1998 the complete description of which is available on the following local address: rbds1998.pdf (original link :http://www.nab.org/scitech/rbds1998.pdf)

This standard drifted from the European standard: European Broadcasting Union ( EBU) / Cenelec
Standard EN50067: on 1998, " Radio Specification of the Data System. ". The American standard resumes in its entirety the European standard by adding some functionalities.