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aglsteven · 11-20-2005, 02:32 PM

You're a life saver ToolPants,

I'll have a go at taking out the ac display tonight, so that I can access the rear of the radio.

Randall,
to answer your question, Australia gets both the CDR22 and the CDR220. The difference is in the tuning frequency. The CDR 220 covers the following regions:
USA, South America, Australia and Asia.
Tuning frequency steps for USA is 200khz, for Asia it is 50khz. There is a setting in the menu for which country it operates in. An interesting point though - if you set it to Australia, it cancels the RDS signal, so it won't display the name of the Radio station. Therefore I set it back to USA, and it works fine. RDS was only introduced in Australia a couple of years ago, and we don't have any Traffic Programmes. Not really any need, as the volume of traffic here is nowhere near what it is in the US or Europe. Even Auckland, NZ has bigger traffic problems!

The CDR22/220 doesn't have the MOST connector. I believe the CDR23 was the first unit with that requirement.

11-20-2005, 02:32 PM	#11
aglsteven Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 111	You're a life saver ToolPants, I'll have a go at taking out the ac display tonight, so that I can access the rear of the radio. Randall, to answer your question, Australia gets both the CDR22 and the CDR220. The difference is in the tuning frequency. The CDR 220 covers the following regions: USA, South America, Australia and Asia. Tuning frequency steps for USA is 200khz, for Asia it is 50khz. There is a setting in the menu for which country it operates in. An interesting point though - if you set it to Australia, it cancels the RDS signal, so it won't display the name of the Radio station. Therefore I set it back to USA, and it works fine. RDS was only introduced in Australia a couple of years ago, and we don't have any Traffic Programmes. Not really any need, as the volume of traffic here is nowhere near what it is in the US or Europe. Even Auckland, NZ has bigger traffic problems! The CDR22/220 doesn't have the MOST connector. I believe the CDR23 was the first unit with that requirement.