Listening to DAB Broadcast
What is DAB?
Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is a radio which carries information in digital format enabling near
DAB is broadcast as groups of data called “ensembles.” Each ensembles can contain a number of stations (services) and each station contains services.
Ensembles
(Primary) service
Secondary service
The unit can receive ensembles in frequency band III (174.928 – 239.200 MHz) and store their services in each ensemble. The number of ensemble you receive varies depending on your location. Band III is divided into 41 channels identified as 5A to 13F. Each channel can contain one ensemble. Channels allocated to the United Kingdom are in the range 11B to 12D.
Ensembles and stations have labels (names) which are used to identify them. Instead of memorizing a particular frequency to listen to a program you like, you can simply select a program by the station name.
About the display symbolWhile tuning in to a station, the following symbols may appear by the side of the station names:
♥The tuned station is sorted as one of your ten favorite stations. (See page 19 for details.)
?The tuned station is not available or not active. >> The tuned station is a primary station with
secondary services.
<< The tuned station is a secondary station.
Initial Scanning
When you change the source to DAB for the first time, the unit performs the initial scanning to search for the available stations.
Press FM/AM/DAB repeatedly to select | FM/AM/DAB |
“DAB.” |
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“Welcome To Digital Radio” scrolls and the initial scanning starts.
DAB indicator
Progress bar
When the progress bar reaches to the right side, the initial scanning finishes.
•Once the scanning is completed, all the available stations are listed by numerical, then alphabetical order and stored in the memory.
The unit will tune in to the first listed station.
If you stop the scanning by pressing any button,no station is listed. In this case, do the local or full scan (see page 19).
When there is no available station,“Station Not Available” appears. The unit enters to the manual scanning mode (see below).
Manual tuning
If the scanning does not go successfully, you can perform the manual tuning.
On the remote control ONLY:
1 Press RDS/INFO. | RDS/INFO | |
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2 Press SEARCH/SCROLL UP DOWN | GROUP | UP |
SEARCH/ | UP | SEARCH/ |
SCROLL | PRESET | SCROLL |
or SEARCH/SCROLL DOWN | / |
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to select “Manual Tune.” | SELECT |
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DOWN |
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| • Each time you press the button, the | GROUP |
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Manual Tune
Service Order* 
DRC Value *
* See page 19 for details.
3 Press SELECT. | DOWN | GROUP | UP |
| SEARCH/ | UP | SEARCH/ |
| SCROLL | PRESET | SCROLL |
| A station with frequency appears. |
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| SELECT |
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| DOWN |
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| PRESET |
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