Installing RDSDX

Connect Data, Clock and Ground from your RDS output (perhaps a Conrad RDS Manager) to COM 1 or to COM 2 via a sub-d plug.
To change the COM settings you'll need the COMSelection.exe supplied with RDSDX.
Mind you the sub-d connections differ from the other decoders FMDXers use!
Data is PIN 9, Clock is PIN 6 and GND is PIN 5!
Do check out the user manual, included in the RDSDX zip file!
You're set up now but RDSDX won't run yet.
Make sure the Validity number is NOT set to 0.
The higher the number the more reliable AND the slower RDS decoding becomes.
Validity values can be set via Options -->Properties --> RDS
Do experiment with the other settings in this tab.

You can run RDSDX without hooking it up to an RDS decoder!
Then RDSDX becomes an FM database to check and verify your own FMDX loggings.
However decoding RDS and having your tuner control RDSDX is far more DX fun.

Important Notice!
If you are updating from RDSDX versions 4.00 or lower you must delete the registry entry of RDSDX under HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> AVA Production before launching the programme. How? Start-->Run then type regedit and the registry editor will open. Now use Control+F to find AVA Production and delete it (Right click
on the AVA Production 'folder' and choose delete). That's all.
Write down all selections from Options-Properties before deletion as the registry information will be lost. Run COM Selection -programme, if you are using COM2 as the RDS-port.
Also copy the supplied programme LogConverter to the same directory where your loggings are located and launch the converter. You needn't do so if your current version is 4.0.
Notice that number of countries in ListFiles has been increased from 170 to 243.
Copy all missing files to the ListFiles -directory. After this you may launch the RDSDX 4.01.

Downloading Country Files (lst.txt).
The lastest Country Files can be downloaded from this website. You need to register to have free access.