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As I was driving the other day .......... I was listening to the CarPC ....... when I looked down at the HU display and noticed instead of my usual

KISS 100

it was displaying

ALARM

I thought, wtf ? Pressed the memory preset for the radio a few times, and it came back !

Anyone know what 'Alarm' on the HU actually means ? :yawn::blink:

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Probably a pirate radio station, a lot of them use RDS text and it may have thought it ammusing to use the name Alarm.

But Jase,

It was on KISS 100 !

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Were you listenting to KISS100 at the time or your Car PC ?

There is a PTY code that displays ALARM, but you would need to have pressed your PTY button to see it (it's the classification of program type, eg ROCK, NEWS etc).

1993 Table: European (CENELEC) and US Program type codes

Number CENELEC PTY (RDS) US PTY (RBDS)

0 No program type or undefined NONE No program type __****__

1 News NEWS News NEWS

2 Current affairs AFFAIRS Information INFORM

3 Information INFO Sports SPORTS

4 Sport SPORT Talk TALK

5 Education EDUCATE Rock ROCK

6 Drama DRAMA Classic rock CLS_ROCK

7 Culture CULTURE Adult hits ADLT_HIT

8 Science SCIENCE Soft rock SOFT_RCK

9 Varied VARIED Top 40 TOP_40

10 Pop music POP_M Country COUNTRY

11 Rock music ROCK_M Oldies OLDIES

12 M.O.R. music M.O.R._M Soft SOFT

13 Light classical LIGHT_M Nostalgia NOSTALGA

14 Serious classical CLASSICS Jazz JAZZ

15 Other music OTHER_M Classical CLASSICL

16 Spare R&B R_&_B

17 Spare Soft R&B SOFT_R&B

18 Spare Language LANGUAGE

19 Spare Religious music REL_MUSIC

20 Spare Religious talk REL_TALK

21 Spare Personality PERSNLTY

22 Spare Public PUBLIC

23-29 Spares Spares

30 Spare Emergency test TEST

31 Alarm ALARM Emergency ALERT!

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