General tuning and use:
Tune UP/DOWN to any channel by being in Channel Mode and press- ing NAV UP or NAV DOWN. Press- ing NAV SEL toggles back and forth between Channel Mode and Category Mode, and will show which tuning mode you are in. Even if you are displaying Song title, the display will revert to Channel name while you are tuning for ease of navigation.
CHANNEL UP/DOWN buttons will tune any presets you have loaded with channels. If you only have the first four presets loaded, then pressing Channel Up after preset 4 will wrap back around to preset 1.
Category tuning is activated by pressing NAV SEL. Briefly, the sec- ond display line will say “Category Mode.” Now when you tune channel up/down, you will only step through the channels inside the category you are in (POP, NEWS, etc.) To change categories, use NAV LEFT or NAV RIGHT. Each press will step you to a new category. To rapidly preview the content of the channels in the current category, press and hold down the tune up or tune down keys. You will still hear the last tuned station play- ing but be able to see what is playing on the other channels, from the info on the display. Pausing for a couple seconds during tuning will then tune to the channel that you are visually previewing.
The num keys can be used in two ways: direct enter channel access, or direct enter preset access. The default when the
the display, then you are in Preset direct tune. Enter the two digits of your choice for the preset number that you want. For presets below 10, enter a zero for the first num key. Once two digits are entered, the tuner will tune to that preset and display the channel number on the top line and the chan- nel description on the second line. For direct enter channel tuning, you will need to enter three digits, starting with 00, if the channel is below ten.
To see information about the cur- rently tuned station, press the INFO key to cycle through Category (CAT>), Artist (ART>), Song Title (TTL>), Composer (CMP>) and the playmode (Stereo by default).
Troubleshooting:
If you are in a marginal signal area, with no terrestrial repeaters, or the an- tenna is blocked by trees or buildings, you may see the message “ACQUIR- ING” come up on the display with no sound playing. Below a certain signal strength threshold of usability, the tuner will try to
If the antenna cable is not plugged in on one end or the other, you will get an error message “ANTENNA”. Power down the system and
If you cannot tune any stations other than 0 or 184, or cannot get any channel info on your presets, then your SIRIUS tuner unit may not be powered up. Check to see that you have a green indicator light on the tuner unit. Not having an active sub- scription will also cause this.
If you see the message “SUB UPDATED”, then SIRIUS is updating your subscription to include or dis- clude channels.
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If you see the message “CALL SIRIUS”, then you are currently tuned to a channel that was just deactivated by SIRIUS, due to channel lineup change, subscription is deactivated or changed, etc.
If you see the message “UPDAT- ING”, then SIRIUS is performing an automatic firmware update to your SIRIUS tuner module (unrelated to
If you see the message “UPDAT- ING 10%”, then you are 10% finished with having a firmware update from SIRIUS. The updates take less than a minute or two, typically.
Certain SIRIUS features are not
supported with the Sunfire
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