I set up the presets myself. Fiddling with the radio is one of the big excitements for me of getting a new car - probably more so than driving it! Also, it was a Renault, so I would presume if the radio was sat on a shelf for years, it would have been in France.Nick Harvey wrote:Spencer, can you remember if you set up the preset buttons yourself, or simply stayed with the ones that had been stored in the factory when the radio was tested? That could be something to do with it. Radios can sit around on car manufacturer's shelves for quite a while before they get fitted into a vehicle.
The only thing I can think of, is that the radio had a function whereby if you were listening to a CD, it would constantly scan the FM band, and add new stations to an alphabetical list. Perhaps one day, during engineering works, the station names were switched back briefly to the old ones, and it remembered them???
Via the automatic scan function I mentioned, I often used to find 'BBC ENG' on the list. Does anyone know anything about this? I presume it's short for BBC Engineering. My parents live near Evesham, so could it be some broadcast from Wood Norton I've picked up whilst down there?I like the "secret" codes that get sent out in station names by the broadcasters. The most famous is Classic FM, where a space AFTER the word CLASSIC means that the main transmitter is in use, a space BEFORE the word indicates that the standby transmitter is in use. If you're right on the cusp of two transmitter areas, when one's on main and one on standby, the word appears to dance backwards and forwards in the little window. That seems to happen quite frequently round here, as we're right on the cusp of Wenvoe and Rowridge.