PTY priority
Situation:
PTY is switched on and lights up in the dis- play.
No station offering the selected programme type can be currently received (neither with seek tuning nor with scan).
The set will switch back to the previous sta- tion.
As soon as a programme with such PTY can be received within the broadcasting network, the unit will switch over to the correspond- ing station for the duration of the pro- gramme.
Example: German broadcasting network NDR:
-Station tuned in: NDR3.
-“PTY” lights up in the display.
-Programme type “POP” selected.
-Seek tuning is started.
-No station with
-The display shows “NO PTY” and
-automatically switches back to NDR3.
-NDR2 airs a
-The system will switch to the linked NDR2 station for the duration of the “POP” programme.
During tape operation, the set will also au- tomatically switch to the programme offer- ing the selected PTY within the broadcast- ing network.
After the PTY programme the system will remain in the radio mode.
Notice:
As mentioned earlier, these functions are currently only supported by a limited number of RDS stations.
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