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: | º | 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). |
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EON (Enhanced Other Network) reservation | ¤ | Radio text can also be displayed on the on screen display using the | ||||
OSD functions. | ° |
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Sets the tuner to automatically switch to stations broadcasting one of |
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station. The tuner returns to the original station when the broadcast |
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of the selected program ends. |
| The "RDS" indicator lights up when an RDS broadcast (signal) is received. | ||||
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PS (Program Service Name) Display: See figure 1 below. |
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Automatically displays the station name transmitted by the RDS |
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RDS Auto Memory function | • |
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Automatically selects and stores up to 40 RDS stations in the preset | Note | countries and areas. |
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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)”. | • |
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 | ||
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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. | ° |
ROOM A | BBC | 1 FM | FM |
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ROOM A | 1)2.5)MHz | ||
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SP. A |
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ROOM A | ABCDEFG HI |
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FM
RDS
SP. A