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Setting other characteristics
During FM mode, keep pressing and holding for more than 2 seconds the SEL button to turn the setting TA on,
then press it shortly and repeatedly to select other settings: PI, RETUNE, MASK, BEEP, SEEK, DSP, LOUD,
STEREO, DX/LOCAL, VOL.
a. TA (Traffic Announcement) mode
To determine what action will the radio take if the newly tuned station does not receive TP (Transport
Program) information for 5 seconds.Rotate the VOLUME knob to select the desired mode: TA ALARM and
TA SEEK.
- TA SEEK
When newly tune d station does not rec eive TP information fo r 5 seconds, the radio r etunes to next station
which has not the same station (PI – Program Information) as the last station, but has the TP information.
When TP in formation get s lost at the cu rrent statio n for retune t ime which is set by RETUNE SHO RT (60
seconds) or RETUNE LONG (90 seconds), the radio starts to retune to next same PI station. When same
PI station does not catch in 1 cyclic search, the radio retunes to next station with TP information.
- TA ALARM
During searching the radio does not retune but the double beep sound (alarm) is output.
b. PI mode
“PI” is referred to “Different PI (Program Information) with same AF (Alternative Frequency)”.
If a car cruises that critical area back and forth, an oscillation phenomenon can be occurred, because the
different PI code can be receive from a same AF.You can select PI SOUND or PI MUTE.
- PI SOUND
When above different PI sound ( DIP) is heard once in a while, the DIP's sound will be hea rd for less than
1 second.
- PI MUTE
Under above same situation, a mute sound will be heard for less than 1 sec.