Using your tuner, Front panel Controls, Operation

Using your tuner

					T61 AM/FM TUNER
	PRESET	TUNED	FM	103.50 MHz
	12 SIGNAL	TUNED	FM	103.50 MHz
	FM MUTE
		STEREO
	BANDRDSMONO STORE		TUNING		POWER
1	2 3 4 5 67		8	9 bk	blbm

Front panel Controls	POWER bl
Preset Memory buttons 1	Switches the mains power to the unit on or off.
Preset Memory buttons 1

Directly select up to 32 preset stations (16 AM, 16 FM). Press brieﬂy for stations 1–8, press and hold for more than one second for stations 9–16.

BAND 2

Selects FM or AM frequency band. The appropriate letters appear on the display.

RDS 3

Switches between RDS modes on FM if RDS is available. See the section ‘RDS: Radio Data System’.

Power indicator bm

This glows green to show that the unit is ready for use. The indicator glows red in standby mode when the tuner is switched off via the remote control, or conﬁgured in a custom installation.

Operation

The T61 radio tuner can be controlled from the front panel buttons or from the remote control handset (see ‘Using the remote control’).

MONO 4

Selects mono or stereo output. Stereo is only available on FM radio stations. If a weak station is received in stereo the background hiss can be reduced (and in most cases eliminated) by selecting ‘MONO’.

In mono mode, FM muting is suppressed when tuning between stations and the ‘FM MUTE’ indicator is switched off.

STORE 5

The STORE button allows you to assign radio stations to preset numbers. See the instruction ‘Storing a preset’

Preset indicator 6

Indicates the number of the preset currently selected.

Signal strength 7

A seven step indicator showing the strength of a tuned station. In FM generally 5 or more bars are required for good reception and to lock onto RDS data.

Tuning 8

Switches between Tune and Preset mode for the down/up buttons. Preset mode is indicated by PRESET on the display.

Tune down/up 9

Used to either scroll through presets, or to tune up and down the broadcast band, depending on the current mode. See Tuning to a station for more details.

Tuning to a station

Pressing the TUNING button toggles between the two tuning modes of the unit – ‘Preset’ or ‘Tune’. The selected mode is brieﬂy shown in the display.

Preset mode

In Preset mode, press the !and "buttons on the front panel (or < or > on the remote control handset) to cycle up and down the preset stations.

See ‘Storing a preset’ and ‘Deleting unused presets’, below.

Tune mode

Automatic tuning:

Press the!and "buttons on the front panel (or < or > on the remote control handset) for longer than one second to engage automatic tuning. The tuner searches for a radio station signal of sufﬁcient strength and stops. To skip to the next station, press one of the buttons again. Automatic tuning is available for both the FM and AM bands.

Manual tuning:

Tap the !and "buttons for manual tuning. This can be used for tuning to a speciﬁc frequency. It is also useful if you are trying to select a station that is too weak for the auto search mode.

Regardless of the mode used to tune your T61, when it is accurately tuned to a station ‘TUNED’ lights up in the display.

Frequency/ RDS display bk

Indicates the frequency of the selected station in MHz (FM) or

T61	kHz (AM). Also displays RDS information when present.

T61 specifications

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