Radio Data System
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Oct 30, 2026
TWiRT Ep. 824 - Silicon Carbide: AM's New Horsepower
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30:08Rich RedmondGUEST
We just announced our partnership with Innobonics.
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30:11Rich RedmondGUEST
to put an FM and HD radio tuner inside that not only could work like a translator for an off-air feed to feed the transmitter, but also a confidence monitor and do things like check, geez, is my RDS working? Can I listen to the stream on my phone? Will it send me an email if the signal's silent? And so it really was to try to provide tools that could be cost effective to make it easier for us to do our jobs without having to have a whole other six-foot rack full of more gear.
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30:43Rich RedmondGUEST
So that's kind of the concept, and part of it, you know, Kirk, was those just happen to be the things that are in it now.
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30:51Rich RedmondGUEST
The idea of having the ability to have a bit of a gateway was that you could continue to add capabilities as they're more available, right? More and more stuff migrates to software.
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31:07Rich RedmondGUEST
We talk about in our product TRE Plus, we have a thing called Content Watchdog.
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31:13Rich RedmondGUEST
And in this case, it can sync to a tuner.
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31:15Rich RedmondGUEST
And it does a validation to say, this is the stuff that I sent out for RDS or HD radio.
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31:22Rich RedmondGUEST
And over here, I verified that indeed it went over the air.