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Anyone else in .ie noticed odd problems with sporadic jumps in radio volume  -  especially on RTE ?

(anyone still listen to RTE?)

 

Have a 2015 Fabia 3 with the Swing touchscreen radio.

Wondered if similar happened on Boleros and Amundsen/Columbus?

 

Every so often, the Audio would change, very briefly - go quite loud and seem to go to Right Channel only - and often caught a change (a flicker really) on the screen, out of the corner of my eye - but so brief, that I couldn't catch it.

 

Anyway - it occurred to me that it might be the Traffic Report TP feature, and that, while RTE don't use it actively, I wondered if they triggered it sporadically for reasons best known to themselves.

 

So, I turned off TP. And I have not had this problem now for over 4 or 5 months. Previously, it was every week or two.

 

So - if it's RTE or a fault on the Radio, I'm not sure. Apart from, a brief visit to NI, the Traffic Report function worked perfectly with BBC.

 

When asked in the dealers - they said it was grime on the touchscreen. And not to use wet hands. :notme:

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Id say its our ****e broadcasting network...

so many local radio stations broadcast on frequencies stupidly close to nationals that they interfere, cross each other etc while youre moving.

Eg i keep getting the awfulness that is tipp mid west cutting in on newstalk on my way to work, because the frwquency bands overlap and signal strengths so variable.

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Anyone else in .ie noticed odd problems with sporadic jumps in radio volume  -  especially on RTE ?

(anyone still listen to RTE?)

 

Have a 2015 Fabia 3 with the Swing touchscreen radio.

Wondered if similar happened on Boleros and Amundsen/Columbus?

 

Every so often, the Audio would change, very briefly - go quite loud and seem to go to Right Channel only - and often caught a change (a flicker really) on the screen, out of the corner of my eye - but so brief, that I couldn't catch it.

 

Anyway - it occurred to me that it might be the Traffic Report TP feature, and that, while RTE don't use it actively, I wondered if they triggered it sporadically for reasons best known to themselves.

 

So, I turned off TP. And I have not had this problem now for over 4 or 5 months. Previously, it was every week or two.

 

So - if it's RTE or a fault on the Radio, I'm not sure. Apart from, a brief visit to NI, the Traffic Report function worked perfectly with BBC.

 

When asked in the dealers - they said it was grime on the touchscreen. And not to use wet hands. :notme:

You're not alone actually.  I also experience this sometimes but thought it was just me.  Its just the volume change I notice, definitely on RTE but not sure if its limited to RTE.  I never thought of TP so must check that.

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Id say its our ****e broadcasting network...

so many local radio stations broadcast on frequencies stupidly close to nationals that they interfere, cross each other etc while youre moving.

Eg i keep getting the awfulness that is tipp mid west cutting in on newstalk on my way to work, because the frwquency bands overlap and signal strengths so variable.

Yeah, I agree with you there.  Some of the local ones are really close to some of the others and the distortion is very noticeable at times.  I know what you mean about that particular station - I'm around Clonmel most days and get interference from it with Newstalk...not much contest there!!

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