PTY – Programme Type
PTY is an RDS service offered by more and more radio broadcasters. This feature allows you to select FM stations according to their programme type. After you have chosen the PTY of your preference, the corresponding stations can be selected either by seek tuning or using the scan function.
Switching PTY on/off
•Press PTY.
When the function is active, the programme type selected last will briefly appear in the display. “PTY” will be permanently indi- cated in the lower right corner of the display panel.
Programme type
Use << >> to have the last selected pro- gramme type displayed and to choose a new one.
You can select any one of the stored types with the preset buttons 1 - 6.
Condition: PTY must be active.
Using DSC you can choose between Ger- man and English (see “DSC programming - PTY LANG”).
All of the programme types listed below are available.
The letters printed in bold are identical to the actual
NEWS
CURRENT AFFAIRS
INFORMATION
SPORT
EDUCATE
DRAMA
CULTURE
SCIENCE
VARIED
POP MUSIC
ROCK MUSIC
M.O.R. M (middle of the road music) LIGHT M (light classical) CLASSICS (serious classical) OTHER M (other music)
PTY 16 to PTY 30 are not yet assigned.
Checking the programme type of the station
•Press PTY for approximately two se- conds.
After the beep tone the display will show the programme type offered by the tuned in sta- tion.
If “NO PTY” appears in the display, the cur- rent station has no PTY code.
Displaying the selected programme type
•Press << or >>.
The programme type selected last will be displayed briefly.
Selecting a programme type
a)Using the preset buttons
When PTY is switched on, you can use the preset buttons
•Press one of the presets 1 - 6. The selected programme type will be displayed for two seconds.
If you wish to listen to a station with this PTY,
•press 
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to start seek tuning ope- ration.
If the system is unable to find a station offe- ring the selected programme type, the dis- play will show “NO PTY” and a beep tone will be released. The station received be- fore starting seek tuning will be tuned in. You can assign different programme types to each preset position. Please refer to the next chapter “Storing programme types”.
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