Radio Shack DX-398 owner manual Viewing A World Time, Changing A World City Name

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VIEWING A WORLD TIME

•If you enter an invalid time, the clock beeps twice and E (error) appears for about 1 second. Repeat Steps 3–4 to enter the correct time.

5.Press ENTER . The time you set appears, and the seconds start counting from 0.

Note: The receiver does not dis- play the seconds.

VIEWING A WORLD TIME

Important: You need to set your local time before following these steps. See “Setting and Viewing the Local Time” on Page 16.

1.Repeatedly press WORLD/HOME until WORLD flashes.

2.Rotate MANUAL TUNING until the name of the world city (or a city in the same time zone) appears. The current time in that city appears on the display.

3.To save the displayed city as your

world city, press ENTER . WORLD stops flashing. Then, the world city’s name disappears from the display within 2 seconds.

4.To return to your home time, repeatedly press WORLD/HOME until HOME flashes. Your home city’s name and the time in that city appear.

5.Press ENTER . HOME stops flashing.

CHANGING A WORLD CITY NAME

You can change the name of any of the preprogrammed world cities to a name you choose, then save the new name in the receiver’s memory.

1.Repeatedly press WORLD/HOME until HOME flashes.

2.Turn MANUAL TUNING to select a city in the same time zone as the city you want to change.

3.Press EDIT. The first character of the city’s name flashes.

4.Turn MANUAL TUNING to select the desired character.

5.When the character you want

appears, press TUNING to move to the next position, then turn MANUAL TUNING to enter the next character (up to 8 charac- ters).

Note: If you want to correct a character you entered, press TUN-

ING to move back to it.

6.Press ENTER . The receiver stores the name of the world city you entered.

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Contents with Radio Data System OWNER’S MANUALAll-BandShortwave Receiver DX-398FEATURES Control Lock — prevents accidental setting changes Band Meters THE FCC WANTS YOU TO KNOWCONTENTS Storing FM, MW, or LW Frequencies in Memory Installing Internal Batteries CONNECTING TO POWERUsing Standard AC Power PREPARATIONUsing Vehicle Battery Power CONNECTING AN EXTERNAL ANTENNA ADJUSTING THE TELESCOPING ANTENNACONNECTING A TAPE RECORDER CONNECTING HEADPHONESTraffic Safety Listening SafelyUSING THE STAND SETTING THE MW AM TUNING INCREMENT USING THE MEMO LABELUNDERSTANDING YOUR RECEIVER AM MODE — lets you set up the alarm timer C cancel — cancels an entryTUNING / — tunes up or down the band you selected M/MEM — stores frequencies into memoryTURNING THE RECEIVER ON AND OFF BASIC OPERATIONLIGHTING THE DISPLAY LOCKING THE CONTROLSSETTING AND VIEWING THE LOCAL TIME CHANGING A WORLD CITY NAME VIEWING A WORLD TIMESelecting a Band TUNING STATIONSManual Tuning Scan Tuning Direct Access TuningPAGE TUNING PREPROGRAMMED SHORTWAVE STATIONSCountry DX-398SHORTWAVE PAGES CHARTMemory Location PageMemory Location CountryPage StationsMemory Location CountryPage StationSPECIAL TUNING CONTROLS ADJUSTING THE TONESTEREO/MONO-FM WIDE/NARR.-AMUSING RDS TUNING SSB STATIONSFollow these steps to use RDS 5.If your time zone is using Daylight1.Turn on the receiver Saving Time, repeatedly press until appearsSTORING FM, MW, OR LW FREQUENCIES IN MEMORY MEMORY FUNCTIONSAutomatic Storage Manual StorageSTORING SW FREQUENCIES IN MEMORY 4.While PAGE and MEMO flash DELETING A STATION YOU STORED LOCKING/UNLOCKING A STORED STATIONMOVING A FREQUENCY TO ANOTHER MEMORY LOCATION USING PRIORITY USING THE TIMER ALARMS TIMER FUNCTIONSSetting an Alarm Silencing the AlarmTimer Recording USING THE SLEEP TIMERTurning a Timer Alarm On or Off REFERENCE SOURCES LISTENING HINTSFREQUENCY CONVERSION BAND ALLOCATIONInternational Frequencies Ships and Coastal Station Frequencies Aircraft FrequenciesTime Standard Frequencies Longwave BandLISTENING GUIDE Location StationRemarks 5,950Location StationRemarks 9,610Location StationRemarks 15,084AMATEUR SHORTWAVE BANDS IN THE US BIRDIESAmateur Shortwave Bands in MHz TROUBLESHOOTING CARE AND MAINTENANCE RESETTING THE DISPLAY SPECIFICATIONS Page We Service What We Sell Limited Ninety-DayWarrantyRadioShack A Division of Tandy Corporation