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Ford Radio Display Says 'alarm'

talksy
talksy
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Hi, I got in my car this afternoon and after driving for a minute or two, put on the radio. It said on the screen ALARM. The radio was playing fine in the background, and I could change channel no problem, but the display kept saying ALARM.

I switched it off and left it for a bit, and then it was fine, ALARM has now gone.

Any ideas on what it meant?

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    London Pirate messing with the national emergency RDS flag?

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    certainly sounds like a possibility! I wonder how many others in London saw it if that was the case...?

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    just Googled this and it could very well be an illegal broadcast , i like your thinking vibeone

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    maybe this is where we find out Vibeone was out and about down london way with a large tower out the sunroof :D

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    Haha...

    You sometimes get a test Alarm in tunnels too - Dartford etc when they're testing the emergency broadcast systems.

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    Haha...

    You sometimes get a test Alarm in tunnels too - Dartford etc when they're testing the emergency broadcast systems.

    Ahah.

    Thanks for all of the posts.

    I was actually very near a tunnel at the time. I bet it came from there!

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