Listening to radio broadcasts

Using RDS (Radio Data System)

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RDS is a system that transmits useful information (in the form of digital data) for FM broadcasts along with the broadcast signal. Tuners and receivers designed for RDS reception can extract the information from the broadcast signal for use with various functions, such as automatic display of the station name.

RDS functions:

PTY (Program Type Identification) Search:

Radio text function: See figure 3 below.

Automatically tunes to a station that is currently broadcasting the

Displays the radio text data transmitted by some RDS stations

specified program type (genre).

 

when you press the DISPLAY key. There is no display if no text

 

 

data was transmitted.

 

 

EON (Enhanced Other Network) reservation

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Radio text can also be displayed on the on screen display using the

OSD functions.

Sets the tuner to automatically switch to stations broadcasting one of

 

 

 

 

 

three types of programs, even though you are listening to another

 

 

 

 

 

station. The tuner returns to the original station when the broadcast

 

 

 

 

 

of the selected program ends.

 

The "RDS" indicator lights up when an RDS broadcast (signal) is received.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FM

PS (Program Service Name) Display: See figure 1 below.

 

RDS

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92.5)MHz

 

SP. A

Automatically displays the station name transmitted by the RDS

 

 

A

station.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some functions and function names may differ for certain

RDS Auto Memory function

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Automatically selects and stores up to 40 RDS stations in the preset

Note

countries and areas.

 

 

memory.

 

 

Before using a function utilizing the RDS, be sure to perform the RDS Auto Memory operation by referring to the description

in “Presetting RDS stations (RDS AUTO MEMORY)”.

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Using the DISPLAY key

Pressing the DISPLAY key changes the contents of the display.

Each press switches the display mode as follows:

1 PS (Program Service name) display

 

DISPLAY

2 Frequency display

 

3 RT (Radio Text) display

Operations

1PS (Program Service name) display:

The station name is displayed automatically when an RDS broadcast is received,

If no PS data was sent, “NO PS” is displayed.

2Frequency display:

Displays the frequency of the current station.

3RT (Radio Text) display:

Text data accompanying the RDS broadcast scrolls across the display. “NO RT” is displayed if the current RDS station does not provide RT data.

Radio text can also be displayed on the on screen display using the

OSD functions.

A

BBC

1 FM

FM

RDS

 

 

 

SP. A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A

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1)2.5)MHz

 

 

 

FM

RDS

 

 

 

SP. A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A

ABCDEFG HI

 

FM

RDS

SP. A