Hi! From: Paul Slootman <paul@xxxxxxxxx> > On Thu 17 Aug 2000, Robert Siemer wrote: > > Is it possible to extract RDS without hardware like with videotext? - > > I've seen an interesting device which showed RDS (e.g. text) when > > connected to the headphone-out of a standard radio!! As far as I > > understood the spec this should be impossible... > > I think you mean this device (german page, although babelfish > does a pretty good job on the text): > http://www.conrad.de/cgi-bin/conshop/ConShop.pl?TK_PAR[USER_ID]=0404036060966499943&TK_EV[SHOWPAGE]=&TK_PAR[PAGEID]=2531&TK_PAR[MEDIUM]=62 Exactly. > It depends on the filters in the tuner not completely removing the > RDS signal. This one is generally connected to the line out of the > tuner. I've seen it work. I've seen it, too. But the RDS-Information are out of band... - but I'm not an electrical engineer... (: Bye, Robert