Media Play
3. | Press the TUNER MEMORY button. | |
4. | • | NUMBER flashes on the display. |
Press the TUNER MEMORY button again. | ||
| • | Press the TUNER MEMORY button before |
| • | NUMBER disappears from the display on its own. |
| After you press the TUNER MEMORY button, | |
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| NUMBER disappears from the display and the |
5. |
| station is stored in memory. |
To preset another station, repeat steps 2 to 4. | ||
To show the RDS signals
You can see the RDS signals the station sends on the display.
Press the RDS DISPLAY button while listening to an FM station.
•Each time you press the button, the display change to show you the following information : PS NAME RT CT Frequency
• To tune to a preset station, press the MANUAL/ |
PS
While searching, <PS NAME> appears and then the station names
PRESET button to select Preset and then press |
(Program
the TUNING/CH (,.) button to select the |
preset station. |
About RDS Broadcasting
Service)
will be displayed. <NO PS> appears if no signal is sent.
While searching, <RT> appears
Using the RDS (Radio Data System) to
receive FM stations
RDS allows FM stations to send an additional signal along with their regular program signals.
For example, the stations send their station names, as well as information about what type of program they broadcast, such as sports or music, etc.
When tuned to an FM station which provides the RDS service, the RDS indicator lights up on the display.
Description on RDS function
•PTY (Program Type) : Displays the type of program currently being broadcast.
•PS NAME (Program Service Name) : Indicates the name of broadcasting station and is composed of 8 characters.
•RT (Radio Text) : Decodes the text broadcast by a station (if any) and is composed of maximum 64 characters.
•CT (Clock Time) : Decodes the real time clock from the FM frequency. Some stations may not transmit PTY, RT or CT information therefore this may not be displayed in all cases.
•TA (Traffic Announcement) : TA ON/OFF it shows that the traffic announcement is in progress.
NOTES
RDS may not operate correctly if the station tuned is not transmitting RDS signal properly or if the signal strength is weak.
RT and then text messages the station
(RadioText) sends will be displayed. <NO RT> appears if no signal is sent.
Frequency Station frequency (non-RDS service)
About characters shown in the display
When the display shows PS,or RT signals,the following characters are used.
•The display window cannot differentiate upper case and lower case letters and always uses upper case letters.
•The display window cannot show accented letters, <A,> for instance, may stands for accented <A’s> like <À, Â, Ä, Á, Å and Ã.>
PTY (Program Type) indication and
PTY-SEARCH function
One of the advantages of the RDS service is that you can locate a particular kind of program from the preset channels by specifying the PTY codes.
To search for a program using the PTY codes
❑Before you start!
•The PTY Search is only applicable to preset stations.
•To stop searching any time during the process, press 5 button while searching.
•There is a time limit in doing the following steps.
If the setting is cancelled before you finish, start from step 1 again.
•When pressing the buttons on the primary remote control, make sure that you have selected the FM station using the primary remote control.