TomTom RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver Available In Europe

JD71 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2006 Posts: 2

Steve,
How did you extend the antenna cable?

tez · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 30, 2004 Posts: 54

Hi all well it seems that TomTom is giving us a new firmware as a Christmas present “Ver 6.522” is out at last.
And so far it seems to work a treat with the TMC looking at radio stations then locking on to 100.7 and then downloading the TMC information.

The main difference seems to be that you can now see all this happening and you don’t get a green light until it see traffic info.

So get downloading and use your TMC at last…….

And a Very Happy Christmas from me to The TomTom team

Tez

coastersteve · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject:

Just on m6 don't panic wife is driving! Locked to classic and was receiving updates from corley to stafford services then lost the 100.1 carrier. Trying to manual tune but the signal just isn't strong enough. J3 is the pad you want on the pcb if you wish to make the wire longer.

howie555 · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 26, 2005 Posts: 99

how are you tuning manually

mikealder · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject:

Have a read through the FAQ Sticky, where there is a link to the TMC Guide, I have explained what to do there - Mike

lola · Lifetime Member Joined: Aug 31, 2006 Posts: 146

Well now that you are all getting traffic info...

I drove down the M6 madness last Sunday - another jam at J10 to J8 so traffic re-routed me throught B'ham to J9 of M6 south. J9 is closed as it turns out and the diversion and TT navigated me to...up the M6 North to J10 to turn around and join the traffic jam South which is what we were avoiding in the first place.

Useful? - hell no - so how do we get TT to correct their traffic info - the slip road had been closed for the last 6 months it turns out.

Secondly - anyone know how to get TTOV2 to advise of the next route instruction earlier - I find if two instructions are close together then it often gets me in the wrong lane which gives me no time to get over a lane. Yesterday it told me to keep right going up the M42 past the M6 junction so we were in the right hand lane. After that it said keep left but there wasnt enough time to move over. Consequently we went up the M6 toll and paid for the priviledge of 4 miles. So instead of saying keep right we should have been told keep in the middle lane to follow M42 THEN take the next left.

Any ideas?

classy56 · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:44 am Post subject:

RDS · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 09, 2006 Posts: 242

pip510 · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject:

This is where common sense comes into play, when TT is telling you to "keep right" it is actually telling you to take the right hand road at a fork, it isn't telling you to go into lane 3 and sit there !! If you use the roads signage etc this should make things clearer.[/quote]

I disagree as I have had the same problem on the M62 Near Leeds and I know I am not the only one as I saw two other cars in front of me that had Tom Toms on, the unit said keep right and then missed the junction so we had to go down to the next junction and turn around, it looked a bit like a tom tom convention.
So point is remember that its a navigation AID and not the all singing and dancing answer and wont tell you what you can see out the window which will tell you whic junction is heading in the direction you need, so by all means you yoiur sat navs just dont forget the road signs either
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classy56 · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject:

Glad to see you disagree and then go on to agree with everything I said Wink

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Scotty-uk · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject:

I just tried manually setting mine and in the time it takes for the tuning circle to rotate twice it goes back to auto.

I just can't get this bloody thing working. I've had it since the week of launch in Germany and so far have had traffic info once and for all of 5 mins when in the middle of London. Sad

lola · Lifetime Member Joined: Aug 31, 2006 Posts: 146

classy56 · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 12:50 pm Post subject:

coastersteve · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 3:12 pm Post subject:

The keep left/right is more important in the USA where the far right hand lane has a tendacy of becoming the exit lane! We did 1700miles in california with our TT910 this summer and we learnt this keep left business the hard way!

Keeping this on topic, I fitted a hirchmann internal amplified antenna yesterday, didn't get any info at home but did around Junction 2 of the M6. Too early to say whether its made a big difference.

Darren · Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 3:19 pm Post subject:

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