Pioneer SX-LX03 manual Using RDS, Displaying RDS information, Searching for RDS programs

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Using RDS

Radio Data System (RDS) is a system used by most FM radio stations to provide listeners with various kinds of information — the name of the station and the kind of show they’re broadcasting, for example.

One feature of RDS is that you can search by type of program. For example, you can search for a station that’s broadcasting a show with the program type, Jazz.

You can search the following program types:1

Displaying RDS information

Use DISPLAY to display the different types of RDS information available.2

DISPLAY

•	Press for RDS information.
Each press changes the display as follows:
	• Radio Text (RT) – Messages sent by the
	radio station. For example, a talk radio
	station may provide a phone number as RT.
	• Program Service Name (PS) – The name of
	the radio station.
	• Program Type (PTY) – This indicates the

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News – News

Affairs – Current Affairs Info – General Information Sport – Sport

Educate – Educational Drama – Radio plays, etc. Culture – National or regional culture, theater, etc.

Science – Science and technology

Varied – Usually talk- based material, such as quiz shows or interviews. Pop M – Pop music Rock M – Rock music Easy M – Easy listening Light M – ‘Light’ classical music

Classics – ‘Serious’ classical music

Other M – Music not fitting above categories Weather – Weather reports and forecasts, meteorological information

Finance – Stock market reports, commerce, trading, etc.

Children – Programs for children

Social – Social affairs Religion – Programs concerning religion Phone In – Public expressing their views by phone

Travel – Holiday-type travel information as opposed to traffic announcements.

Leisure – Leisure interests and hobbies

Jazz – Jazz

Country – Country music Nation M – Popular music in a language other than English

Oldies – Popular music from the ’50s and ’60s Folk M – Folk music Document – Documentary

kind of program currently being broadcast.

• PTY SEARCH – PTY search (see below)

• Current tuner frequency

Searching for RDS programs

You can search for a program type listed above.

FM/AM

1 TUNER Press for the FM band.3

DISPLAY

2 Press repeatedly until ‘PTY SEARCH’ appears in the display.

3		Select the program type you want
to hear.
4	ENTER	Start the search.

The system searches the station presets for a match. If it finds one, searching stops for five sec.

5If you want to keep listening to the station, press ENTER within the five seconds. If you don’t press ENTER, searching resumes.

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Note

1In addition, there are three other program types, TEST, ALARM!, and None, ALARM! and TEST are used for emergency announcements. None appears when a program type cannot be found.

2• If any noise is picked up while displaying the RT scroll, some characters may be displayed incorrectly.

•If you see No Radio Text Data in the RT display, it means no RT data is sent from the broadcast station. The display will automatically switch to the PS data display (if no PS data, the frequency is displayed).

•In the PTY display, NO DATA or None may be shown. In this case, the PS display is shown after a few seconds.

3RDS is only possible in the FM band.

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