Receiving FM Stations with Radio Data System
Radio Data System allows FM stations to send an additional signal along with their regular program signals. With the System, you can receive the following types of Radio Data System signals.
PS (Program Service): Shows commonly known station names.
PTY (Program Type): Shows types of broadcast programs.
RT (Radio Text):Shows text messages the station sends.
Enhanced Other Networks: Provides the information about the types of the programs broadcast by the Radio Data System stations of the different networks.
NOTE
If you want to know more about Radio Data System, visit <http://www.rds.org.uk>.
Changing the Radio Data System Information
Each time you press the button, the main display changes as follows:
PSPTY
Frequency
RT
NOTE
If no Radio Data System signals are sent by a station, “NO PS,”“NO PTY,” or “NO RT” appears on the main display.
Searching for Programs by PTY Codes (PTY Search)
While listening to an FM station:
You can locate a particular kind of program from the 30 preset stations (see page 12) by specifying PTY codes. While listening to a DAB service:
You can locate a particular kind of program from among all the services you can receive by specifying PTY codes.
For details about PTY codes, see page 19.
Press to enter the PTY code setting mode.
1 “PTY” and “SELECT” appear on the
main display.
2 | or | Select a PTY code. |
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The System starts searching, stops when it finds the program of
3 the selected PTY code (“FOUND” appears on the display), and tunes in to it.
NOTES
•To stop searching any time during search for FM stations, press PTY SEARCH.
•To stop searching any time during search for DAB services, press CANCEL or PTY SEARCH.
•To continue searching after it stops on an unwanted program/service, press PTY SEARCH again while the PTY code is flashing on the display.
•If no program/service is found, “NOTFOUND” appears on the display.
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