It's not a bad feature if the local stations transmit the right data, but
I'm sure it's not a high priority since so few radios have the
feature.  Actually, I've heard it's quite common in Europe.  Just another
example of how far behind America is with this kind of technology.

Steve

On Sunday 10/31/04 22:59 Louis Kim Kline wrote:

>Now, that's what I call a radio that is too smart for its own good!
>
>73, de Lou K2LKK
>At 07:52 PM 10/31/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Sunday 10/31/04 15:02 Butch Bussen wrote:
> > >Well, you know their motto. "You got questions---  we got batteries", or
> > >something like that.
> >I always thought their motto was: "You've got questions?  We've got even
> >more questions."
> >
> >It's always an adventure shopping at the Shack.  I once took back a DX-398
> >because the clock wasn't keeping time reliably.  They were quite helpful,
> >and even exchanged the radio for another one, which involved some paperwork
> >since I'd purchased the original at another store, and I had paid for a
> >service contract.  When I got home with my new radio, I discovered why the
> >clock on the old one hadn't worked.  The radio has a feature whereby you
> >can automatically set the clock based on a signal from FM stations in your
> >area.  It turns out that the stations in my area that broadcast the clock
> >signals were set to different times, with as much as a couple of hours
> >difference between them.  Too bad the helpful RS sales person didn't tell
> >me to turn off the automatic clock setting feature.  My original radio was
> >working perfectly, and neither of us knew it.  As I said before, shopping
> >at your friendly local Shadio Rack can be quite an adventure.
> >
> >Steve
>
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