RDS method of display

Question

Hi there.
I’ve noticed something strange on the display of the RDS on the radio of I POD nano.
First as you all know, when you connect the radio remote, it let’s you choose between the next three...
1.Europe. When you can receive between 87.5 and 108)
2.America. When you can receive between 87,5 and 107.9 but only in steps of 200 KHz (for example 97.7=> 97.9=> 98.1 etc).
3.Japan. Where you can receive between 76.0 and 89.9 MHz.
In Greeecem, I own an RDS encoder (in my radio station) and I’ve noticed that the RDS is not working well (on my I-pod).
Here I will explain to you, what exactly happens. First I must say to you that I personally programmed the RDS Encoder I own. This RDS encoder allows me to send two messages on the radio of our listeners. The first one, is a message that all the receives can see! The second one is called “Radio Text” and only some receivers can “see” it. This second message (the “radio text”) is always a scrolled message.
Look here what happens with my I-pod!
1. When I choose “Europe” as my location, I can receive my radio station. I can also receive the Rds message. The problem I have, is that I ONLY RECEIVE the “Radio Text” message that my encoder sends to the receivers. Of course this message is scrolled in the display of my I-pod. In Greece, this message is not the desired message that most radio station transmit
2. When I choose “America” as my location, I can receive my radio station (thank God, we transmit on 97.9 and not at 98.0 MHz), and I can see on the display the "first message" as it should be. This is the message that all the listeners can see and this is the type of RDS message, that all the Greeks radios transmit!
What I suggest to the program team for the next software update is to let the user determine about the “area system of the RDS”. In other words... Here in Greece, we use (mostly) the same protocol as they use in the States.
Windows XP

Answer 1

Unfortunately this seems to be a problem for us users here in Europe. The RDS function is erratic at best when the the radio is set to Europe. It seems to work better if you set it to USA, but the downside is that you can only tune the radio in steps of 2mhz which is not much use when many radio stations have frequencies ending in odd numbers.
It's a well documented issue, and has been noted in many reviews of the radio/remote. Hopefully Apple will address the issue with a firmware update.