Musical Fidelity KW250S FM Function Buttons, MONO/STEREO remote only, Audio mode, Menu FM options

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KW250S

FM FUNCTION BUTTONS

AUTO-TUNE

To auto search stations, press the AUTO TUNE button. The tuner will search upwards through the FM band and pick out the next station for you.

105.80MHz FM

If pressed and held for more than a second, the tuner will scan back down the band to the previous station (the scan-down function is not available on the remote).

BAND

This button alternates the tuner between receiving FM and DAB stations

TUNE UP/DOWN

To manually tune to a station, simply turn the left-hand knob to cycle through the FM band. Turning slowly gives fine-tuning steps (50kHz).

When the required station frequency is displayed, the station should be heard, and after a few seconds radio text information is displayed, if available.

PS:FM

Radio 1

See the section on the PRESET buttons to store favourite stations for easy recall

PRESET UP and PRESET DOWN

PRESET UP/DOWN buttons are used to select one of ten FM preset memory locations. Press select when the desired preset is displayed.

STORE

It is possible to store favourite stations in preset memory locations using the STORE button as follows: Tune to the station required:

PS:FM

Radio 1

Press PRESET UP/DOWN buttons until the desired preset is displayed.

PS:FM

Preset 1 empty

Press and hold STORE to accept this preset. The display will indicate the preset has saved

PS:FM

Preset 1 saved

and then revert to selected station.

PS:FM

Radio 1

Note: this will overwrite any station stored previously on this preset.

Briefly pressing the button will display current preset without storing. There are 10 presets available for programmes on the FM band (in addition to the 10 provided for DAB). Presets are remembered even if the unit is switched off.

MONO/STEREO (remote only)

This button enforces mono reception when inadequate aerial signal strength results in noisy stereo reception. MONO ‘forces’ mono at all times until the button is pressed again for AUTO. In AUTO mode, the tuner automatically switches according to signal strength.

INFO

Displays the current broadcast information in the following order:

PI: Programme identification*

PTY: Programme type*

RT: Radio text*

CT: Clock date and time (as transmitted by network)*

MS: Music/Speech (info only)*

DI: Decoder information* Signal Strength with bar graph

Audio mode

AF: Alternate frequency* - Returns to top of this list

*Relies on FM RDS. Not displayed if no or insufficient RDS signal.

MENU (FM options)

Press MENU to access menu options whilst in FM mode.

Use the TUNE up/down knob to cycle through the options, and the SELECT button to choose displayed option.

Menu options available for FM are:

System reset: RESETS all presets and tuning to 87.50MHz (beginning of FM Band)

Customer Version: Current software version

Issue 2: 19th June 2006

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