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UsinganRDSEncoderwithOmnia.9’sPsychoacousticCompositeClipper
ItispossibletoutilizeanexternalRDSencoderwithoutlosinganyloudnessbyintegratingitwith
Omnia.9’scompositeclipper.Todoso,youmustfeedboththeencoder’sMPXandPilotinputswith
anindependentlygenerated19kHzsignalandinturnfeedtheoutputoftheencoder(withRDSand
Pilot)tooneofOmnia.9’sMPXinputs.Omnia.9’sMPX1Outputwillfeedtheexciterdirectly.
BesuretoenabletheproperMPXinputforRDSuse(Input1orInput2)intheRDSModemenu,and
settheMPX2Outputcontroltothe19kHzGeneratormode.TheMPX2Outputcontrolcanbe
foundintheRDSMenu,theFMProcessingOutputmenu,andinthemainI/Omenu.
As an aside, it’s interesting to note that Omnia.9 filters the external RDS so tightly that if you
connected the MPX output of a tuner monitoring a completely differentstation, it willbroadcast
thatstation’spilotandRDSdata!