General traffic info
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General traffic info
No there isn't. I can't see why you'd want to do this. One station may know of traffic another doesn't.
It may be because of his location. I'm based in Bristol/Bath and some of my presets are for welsh stations, even though Wales is technically only a few miles away they never say what the traffic is like in Bristol becuase there is a massive river in between
yeah thats what its like for me. im in blandford dorset. sometimes i am in bournemouth, sometimes somerset. the traffic definitely didnt sound like it was covering this area more 'solent' ie southampton portsmouth. no good to me. but thanks for letting me know anyway so i wont waste any more time trying to fix it!
The radio picks up the traffic news from what's called EON - extended other networks - which generally means various BBC local stations or independents that belong to the same owning company. As well as EON, the radio also has something called AF -- auto-find. This is how it can 'follow' a national station like Radio 1 on different frequencies as you move around the country.
Both these features are controlled by the option to increase or reduce the sensitivity of the radio to weaker signals. So, if you set it to receive weak/distant signals, you will find it feeds traffic info from further-flung places. Set it to only tune to more local/strong signals and you should only hear more local traffic news. Flip side of this is that it then tends to be less able to keep following national radio if, for example, you go into a valley. How to alter that sensitivity setting varies between radios -- on the original Fiat one, it's easy to find from the menu.
[later - just realised: you can force it only to give you traffic news from the one station you tuned in to by turning off the 'EON' option - again, its in a menu somewhere]
Both these features are controlled by the option to increase or reduce the sensitivity of the radio to weaker signals. So, if you set it to receive weak/distant signals, you will find it feeds traffic info from further-flung places. Set it to only tune to more local/strong signals and you should only hear more local traffic news. Flip side of this is that it then tends to be less able to keep following national radio if, for example, you go into a valley. How to alter that sensitivity setting varies between radios -- on the original Fiat one, it's easy to find from the menu.
[later - just realised: you can force it only to give you traffic news from the one station you tuned in to by turning off the 'EON' option - again, its in a menu somewhere]
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John H
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in NW london there is a pirate station that some how manages to brocast as traffic news, hows that happen?
A lot of commercial stations use the services of the company behind KeepMoving.co.uk -- called Inrix -- to provide their traffic bulletins ... this is why you hear the same 'presenter' across lots of different stations (occasionally, if you swap channels at the right time you hear the same presenter saying different things on different stations at the same time, which shows that its prerecorded! -- and explains why sometimes it seems 'out of date', still warning of closures that have been lifted, for example)
I wonder if the pirate station is 'pirating' that data feed too? (If they are a 'community' station rather than a pirate, they can use the Inrix service)
I wonder if the pirate station is 'pirating' that data feed too? (If they are a 'community' station rather than a pirate, they can use the Inrix service)
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I keep my stereo set to a local variant of Heart FM, if I use the BBC I get battered on my daily commute - BBC London, BBC Sussex, BBC Surrey and BBC Kent.
you try listening to music with that lot breaking in, each on a 15 minute loop !:bang:
you try listening to music with that lot breaking in, each on a 15 minute loop !:bang:
