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Robin2
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:21 pm    Post subject: RDS/TMC in France? Reply with quote

I have just returned from 4 weeks in France. On my drive towards Dover the RDS/TMC receiver was working fine, and I received traffic reports. As soon as I arrived in Calais, the sidebar did not appear and the receiver did not appear to be recognised. Most of the traffic menu options were greyed out. I tried soft and hard resets, but to no avail.
I landed back in Dover this morning and lo and behold it worked fine.
There seem to be 2 possibilities
1. The traffic receiver does not work in France
2. There is some menu option which I should have selected to activate it in France
Can anyone tell me which is correct?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The RDS TMC works here in France for me. And the unit and receiver was bought in the UK.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did not have to do anything except plug it in on my 940 for it to work in France last week. Only problem was it would only work with the aerial outside of the car but that is down to my car and not the TMC.

Only two things I can think of:

1. You used a different map in France to the UK but I think your unit uses the WE map for both France and England (each map has its own configuration settings so different maps would have different settings).

2. You have locked your TMC to a manual UK frequency, but my TomTom overides this if it cannot find a frequency and I would have thought yours did the same.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, I didn't change maps, I am using Western Europe.
I didn't lock to a particular frequency (indeed, in France, the screen allowing me to do that was not accesible - the menu items relating to RDS/TMC were not there, neither was the traffic sidebar (though it reappeared as soon as I got back to UK)
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now you can get back to the RDS options was it set to UK or strongest signal? if it was UK this might explain why it behaved in the way it did - Mike
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I cannot find a country option in the RDS-TMC settings on any of my devices. I can also access the TMC settings before any GPS or RDS-TMC signal is received when the unit does not know where it is.

I have tried this with both the USB & Jackplug type TMC devices.

A long time ago (and still in the USA) I seem to remember that TMC services outside of the UK had service charges. I do not know how TomTom would have known if you had a valid TMC or unit with a prepaid service charge but is there any chance that you have an old TT, TMC or Software or a unit made for a market where TMC is chargeable and it is assuming that you are outside of the area you have paid for? This possibility may be totally incorrect, but something brings back memories of TMC licences.

Only odd thing I notice is that when I switch maps on the 530 between England and France I get the message TMC disconnected then TMC connected as it switches maps.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This sounds like a temporary connection problem. Confused

I am using a GO920 and I regularly travel from the UK, through the Euro Tunnel, then through France, Belgium and Netherlands. The only country I encounter RDS-TMC connection problems is the UK, i.e. many areas of poor reception, especially around East Anglia.

My settings are for strongest signal.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mikealder wrote:
Now you can get back to the RDS options was it set to UK or strongest signal? if it was UK this might explain why it behaved in the way it did - Mike

Mike, I can't find any menu option to select UK or strongest signal. Under Traffic preferences there are 2 entries. The second is "Tune manually by entering a frequency", and I have that box unticked so that it will look automatically for a signal
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