Rds Mode

[VegasGirl]

I've looked in the manual, but I dont' get it.

[1990LS400]

RDS stands for "radio data system" and has been in use in Europe since at least the early 1990's. Kind of hard to believe that it took so long to arrive in the U.S. RDS catagorizes radio stations and allows you to search and listen to FM stations in your favorate catagories, see the station name, and sometimes other information about what is playing.

I had an RX330 loaner car last week when our LS was in for service and could not get the RDS in it to work in the 60 seconds I spent trying.

Here is a U.K. site that describes how RDS works. Since we listen mainly to NPR while traveling, I wish our LS had it so we could easily find the stations. Infortunately, from my experience in rental cars that have RDS, many (maybe most) stations do not (yet) broadcast RDS information.

http://www.radio-now.co.uk/faq1.htm