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[quote author=”JesseG”]It doesn’t, but that’s a good idea for an upgrade. Thanks for the idea. Definitely could always use some more statistics.

That being said, in any testing I’ve seen… the tuner doesn’t rely on the pilot at all for RDS, which is why RDS still works when doing things like AutoPilot… Leif’s true-mono detection that fades out the pilot, for noise reduction purposes. 🙂 I’m not sure if that was part of the testing of the Omnia.9 @ NPR Labs, but I would guess it was, since it’s always on, and they would have noticed. Hehehe.[/quote]

Audemat, the manufacturer of our 5 RDS generators, explains a procedure to adjust the RDS phase in the absence of a scope by monitoring the RDS data error rate on the fringe of the coverage area and adjusting the RDS phase for the lowest error rate. So the RDS may work in the absence of a 19 kHz pilot but I don’t expect it will work as good as it would with the pilot up and in phase.

I haven’t read about Leif’s AutoPilot. It sounds interesting. I’d certainly like to learn more. Do you have any links?