Windows Dialog Application - RDS Monitor
This monitors a com port for RDS data, and pulls the stream apart.
Here's the exe.
Here's a screen shot of V0.02...
| Port | The PC communications port connected to the PIC SAA6579 rds serialiser interface. The PIC hardware is a hack of the Thermometer Arbiter. |
| Connect | Opens the communications port |
| Abort | Closes the communications port |
| Q | Number of bad quality bits per second |
| Time | Type 4A groups: Clock-time and date |
| Traffic | TP TA or EON |
| Station [PS] | Type 0 group "Program Service" |
| [PI] | Program Identification. |
| Program Type [PTY] | Program Type - one of 32 types |
| Alternate Frequencies | Type 0 group |
| Program Item Number | Type 1 group. Date Hour Minute |
| Radio Text | Type 2 group |
| EON Database | Type 14A group. Row 0: PI PS AF Mapped frequencies. Row 1: Active or passive link, PTY, TA state. |
| EON Traffic Alerts | Type 14B group. A log of the last traffic alert on a EON. |
| Phase | Within the application there are 26 correlators skewed 1 data clock interval apart. This identifies the correlator that has synchronised with the tuned RDS transmitter. |
0.01 07/06/2002
Initial release
0.02 21/6/2002
Allows selection of ports other than COM1. The communications port shuts down
after 5 seconds of no data appearing from the PIC. A message box lets you know
when the port has been automatically closed.
0.03 5/7/2002
Communications port timeout failure code removed. Just keeps on retrying if data
dries up.
Correlator phase added to display.