Onkyo TX-SR508 Finding Stations by Type PTY, Listening to Traffic News TP, RDS program types PTY

Finding Stations by Type (PTY)

You can search for radio stations by type.

1	Press RT/PTY/TP twice.
	The current program type appears on the display.
2	Use PRESET e/rto select the type of program
	you want.
	See the table shown later in this chapter.
3	To start the search, press ENTER.
	The AV receiver searches until it finds a station of
	the type you specified, at which point it stops briefly
	before continuing with the search.
4	When a station you want to listen to is found, press
	ENTER.

If no stations are found, the message “Not Found” appears.

Listening to Traffic News (TP)

You can search for stations that broadcast traffic news.

1 Press RT/PTY/TP three times.

If the current radio station is broadcasting TP (Traf- fic Program), “[TP]” will appear on the display, and traffic news will be heard as and when it’s broadcast. If “TP” without square brackets appears, this means that the station is not broadcasting TP.

2 To locate a station that is broadcasting TP, press

ENTER.

The AV receiver searches until it finds a station that’s broadcasting TP.

If no stations are found, the message “Not Found” appears.

■RDS program types (PTY)

Type	Display
None	None
News reports	News
Current affairs	Affairs
Information	Info
Sport	Sport
Education	Educate
Drama	Drama
Culture	Culture
Science and technology	Science
Varied	Varied
Pop music	Pop M
Rock music	Rock M
Middle of the road music	Easy M
Light classics	Light M
Serious classics	Classics
Other music	Other M
Weather	Weather
Finance	Finance
Children’s programmes	Children
Social affairs	Social
Religion	Religion
Phone in	Phone In
Travel	Travel
Leisure	Leisure
Jazz music	Jazz
Country music	Country
National music	Nation M
Oldies music	Oldies
Folk music	Folk M
Documentary	Document
Alarm test	TEST
Alarm	Alarm!

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