RCA Stereo Receiver with Remote Control owner manual Tuning the Radio, Manual and Automatic Tuning

TUNING THE RADIO

Your receiver has four types of electronic tuning — manual, automatic, direct, and memory.

Note: To listen to stations with weak signals, we recommend manual tuning.

Manual and Automatic Tuning

1.Press FM or AM on the front panel (or on the remote control) to select the desired band. The receiver tunes to that band and displays the frequency last selected.

Note: If CH appears on the right side of the display, press TUNING MODE to switch from preset to manual-tuning mode. MANUAL briefly appears.

2.To manually select the next higher or lower frequency, press

TUNING UP or DOWN. Hold down UP or DOWN to rapidly scan up or down through the frequencies. Release the button to stop scanning.

To automatically search for the next higher or lower frequency with a strong signal, briefly hold down TUNING UP or DOWN. The receiver searches up or down the band, stopping on the next frequency with a strong signal.

Notes:

•TUNED appears when the received signal is strong.

•STEREO appears when the received FM broadcasts are in stereo.

•If you press TUNING UP at the top of the frequency range or TUNING DOWN at the bottom of the frequency range, the frequency at the opposite end of the range appears.

Direct Tuning (Remote Control Only)

1.Press FM or AM on the front panel (or on the remote control) to select the desired band. The receiver tunes to and displays the frequency last selected in that band.

2.Press DIRECT TUNING on the remote control. DIRECT IN

scrolls by, followed by AM – – – – kHz for AM or FM – – – .– – MHz for FM. The first – flashes.

3.Enter the desired frequency using the remote control’s number buttons.

Notes:

•If you press 1 to enter a FM frequency, such as 103.5, 10 automatically appears. If you also press the zero, the frequency that appears would be 100.30.

•The last zero always appears automatically in both FM and AM frequencies.

•If you do not press a key within 5 seconds, the receiver exits direct tuning. Start over at Step 2.

Memory Tuning

Memory tuning lets you instantly tune to a stored frequency. You can store up to 30 AM and 30 FM frequencies in the receiver’s memory. The receiver automatically stores the first 30 stations found in the selected band into the memory. You can also manually store a station into memory.

Automatically Storing Stations

1.Press FM or AM on the front panel (or on the remote control) to select the desired band. The receiver tunes to that band and the last selected frequency appears.

2.Hold down MEMORY for more than 2 seconds. MEMORY and CH appear and the receiver scans through the frequencies, beginning with the low end (87.5 MHz for FM or 530 kHz for AM).

3.When the receiver finds a station, it stores it in the first memory channel, the selected CH number appears, and the receiver looks for the next station. When the receiver finds the thirtieth station or when it reaches the high end of the frequency range, MEMORY disappears and the receiver tunes to the lowest frequency station in the band.

Repeat these steps to automatically store stations in the other band.

Manually Storing a Station

Follow these steps to manually store a station, or to replace a station already stored in memory.

1.Press FM or AM on the front panel (or on the remote control) to select the desired band. The receiver tunes to and displays the frequency last selected in that band.

Note: If CH appears on the right side of the display, press TUNING MODE to switch to manual-tuning mode. MANUAL briefly appears.

2.Tune to the desired station (see “Manual and Automatic Tuning” on Page 10).

3.Press MEMORY. MEMORY flashes on the display.

4.While MEMORY flashes, press TUNING UP or DOWN until the desired memory channel number appears.

5.Press MEMORY again to store the station immediately. Or, wait about 5 seconds and the station is automatically stored in the selected channel.

Notes:

•If you store a frequency in a memory channel that already contains a frequency, you replace the previous frequency.

•If your receiver is disconnected from AC power for several days, it loses all the stored frequencies.

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