RDS-TMC Traffic question

[beef]

I want to know if I can get the same traffic information on using different radio channel?

 

[GOer910]

What do you mean by a different radio channel?? TMC-RDS operates off the radio FM frequencies in the band 88.0 to 108 MHz, the traffic receiver will automatically tune to one of the frequencies used by a radio station that will also broadcast the traffic data information on one of the sub-channel similarly to showing the details of the song (song title, artist) being played on the air when you have an RDS capable radio in your car.

 

[Boyd]

There's a menu choice to manually tune the traffic radio, but I haven't used it. In a densely populated area there's probably more than one station available and I suppose you might want to choose one along your route instead of letting the receiver lock onto the first one it finds.

 

[trafficinfo]

the receiver will lock to the best (signal reception wise) available station but in any particular country all fm stations will belong to the same provider (TTN in USA, ITIS in UK for instance), so in other words it does not matter. some big cities like detroit, mi has up to 5 stations but all broadcast the same info. some major cities as well have more than 1 provider (in US, TTN and Navteq RDS) but any particular receiver will ONLY LOCK to only 1 particular provider (the one they have a license agreement with). The only exception is most European countries have a FREE service therefore the receiver can pick any FREE provider but will always lock to the best possible signal.

UK users due to very low power in the fm stations had to use the manual tune-in feature until recently that tomtom released a brand new receiver that has better sensitivity. Most users in most countries let the device tune automatically of course.

some major cities provide also FLOW INFO as well as incidents like construction and accidents like everybody else.

 

[davidalan99]

the receiver will lock to the best (signal reception wise) available station but in any particular country all fm stations will belong to the same provider (TTN in USA, ITIS in UK for instance), so in other words it does not matter. some big cities like detroit, mi has up to 5 stations but all broadcast the same info. some major cities as well have more than 1 provider (in US, TTN and Navteq RDS) but any particular receiver will ONLY LOCK to only 1 particular provider (the one they have a license agreement with). The only exception is most European countries have a FREE service therefore the receiver can pick any FREE provider but will always lock to the best possible signal.

UK users due to very low power in the fm stations had to use the manual tune-in feature until recently that tomtom released a brand new receiver that has better sensitivity. Most users in most countries let the device tune automatically of course.

some major cities provide also FLOW INFO as well as incidents like construction and accidents like everybody else.

Thank you for the information, now for the next trafic question, were can we get key to the different symbols used in the traffic updates?

 

[Nextourer]

Thank you for the information, now for the next trafic question, were can we get key to the different symbols used in the traffic updates?

Unfortunately, only on this site lol. We had one or two threads with a small photo of all the icons.

 

[Boyd]

Thank you for the information, now for the next trafic question, were can we get key to the different symbols used in the traffic updates?

See page 85 of the user manual here: http://www.tomtom.com/lib/doc/device/gox20/gox20-en-US.pdf

 

[davidalan99]

My manual stops at page 77. TomTom 920T

 

[davidalan99]

OK, went to TomTom and downloaded the manual and it is very different than the one that came with my 920T, purchased from BB on 12/7. Even after all updates done the manual on the CD is much smaller. Thank you for the right point.

 

[Timon]

Rule of thumb, The manuals on any manufactures CDs are never up to date. Always to straight to the web site.