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News Bulletin Functionwith PTY News Timeout Setting

You can arrange to have news bulletins interrupt your current listening source, including other radio stations. When the News Bulletin function is on, the PTY News Timeout setting allows you to set the interval during which further news interruption cannot take place. You can adjust the PTY news interruption period from 10 to 90 minutes for each journey.

Turning News Bulletin Function On/Off:

1Hold down the MENU button for one second or more. "MENU" is displayed and the menu mode is turned on.

2Press the ¢ button repeatedly until the News Bulletin function appears in the display.

Press the 4 button to search in the other direction.

The function setting is indicated by "NEWS OFF" or "NEWS ##M" in the display, indicating that the function is on or off, respectively.

NOTE

Depending on the interval chosen, the "##M" in the display will change when the function is turned on.

3Changing the Function Setting Press either the FM or AM button.

Each time you press the FM or AM button until the desired setting is displayed.

Press the FM button to increase the interval, and the AM button to decrease it.

OFF ↔ 00M ↔ 10M ↔ 20M ↔ 30M ↔ 40M ↔ 50M ↔ 60M

↔ 70M ↔ 80M ↔ 90M(M= minutes) When you select the news interruption timeout interval, the News function turns on and the NEWS indicator lights up. When a news bulletin is received, "NEWS" will be displayed and reception will begin at the preset volume.

NOTE

If you choose the "20M" setting, further news bulletins will not be received for 20 minutes once the first news bulletin is received.

4Press the MENU button to end the menu mode.

NOTE

•This function is only available if the desired station sends PTY- code for news bulletin or belongs to EON-Network sending PTY- code for news bulletin.

•If you turn on the news bulletin function in the MW/LW band, the band is switched automatically to the FM band.

However, the MW/LW band is not returned to when you turn off the function.

Programme Type (PTY) Function

Conduct auto seek tuning only on those stations with selected kinds of programmes.

1Press the 38(PTY) button.

The PTY indicator will turn on, and the Programme Type Selection (PTY) Mode entered.

If you make no key input in 30 seconds, the mode will automatically turn off.

NOTE

You cannot use this function whilst the traffic information function is turned on.

NOTE Changing the Display Language to French, or German.

In the PTY mode, hold down the CLK button for one second or more to display the name of the language currently used.

If you want to change the language, press the preset button for the desired language and then the CLK button.

English is #1, French is #2, and German is #3.

2Select the type of programme to be received

•Press either the FM or AM buttons repeatedly until the type of programme you want to listen to.

The selection includes:

Speech(SPEECH) ↔ 1.News(NEWS) ↔ 2.Current Affairs(AFFAIRS) ↔ 3.Information(INFO) ↔ 4.Sports(SPORT)

↔5.Education(EDUCATE) ↔ 6.Drama(DRAMA) ↔ 7.Culture(CULTURE) ↔ 8.Science(SCIENCE) ↔ 9.Varied(VARIED) ↔ 10.Pop Music(POP M) ↔ 11.Rock

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