
07Listening to the radio
Memorizing stations
You can save up to 30 station presets so that you always have easy access to your favorite stations without having to tune in manually each time.
1 Tune to an AM or FM radio station.
Select mono or
2 | Press SETUP. |
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3 | Use the | buttons to choose ST.MEM. then |
press ENTER. |
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4 | Use the | buttons to select the station preset |
you want then press ENTER.
Listening to station presets
Displaying RDS information
You can display the different types of RDS information available.2
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1Make sure the tuner function is selected.
2Use the ST +/– buttons to select a station preset.
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
•Press RDS DISP 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 kind of program currently being broadcast.
•SEARCH – PTY search (see below)
•Current tuner frequency
NEWS – News | FINANCE – Stock market reports, | Searching for RDS programs | ||
AFFAIRS – Current Affairs | commerce, trading, etc. | You can search for a program type listed above. | ||
INFO – General Information | CHILDREN – Programs for | 1 Press the FM/AM button for the FM band.3 | ||
SPORT – Sport | children | |||
EDUCATE – Educational | SOCIAL – Social affairs |
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DRAMA – Radio plays, etc. | RELIGION – Programs | 2 Press RDS DISP repeatedly until SEARCH appears in | ||
CULTURE – National or regional | concerning religion | the display. |
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culture, theater, etc. | PHONE IN – Public expressing |
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SCIENCE – Science and | their views by phone | 3 Use the | buttons to select the program type | |
technology | TRAVEL – | you want to hear. |
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VARIED – Usually | rather than traffic |
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material, such as quiz shows or | announcements | 4 Press ENTER to start the search. | ||
interviews | LEISURE – Leisure interests and | The system searches the station presets for a match. If it | ||
POP M – Pop music | hobbies | |||
finds one, searching stops for five sec. | ||||
ROCK M – Rock music | JAZZ – Jazz | |||
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EASY M – Easy listening | COUNTRY – Country music | 5 If you want to keep listening to the station, press | ||
LIGHT M – ‘Light’ classical music | NATION M – Popular music in a | |||
ENTER within the five seconds. | ||||
CLASSICS – ‘Serious’ classical | language other than English | |||
music | OLDIES – Popular music from the | If you don’t press ENTER, searching resumes. | ||
OTHER M – Music not fitting | ’50s and ’60s |
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above categories | FOLK M – Folk music |
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WEATHER – Weather reports | DOCUMENT – Documentary |
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Note
1 In addition, there are three other program types, TEST, ALARM, and NO TYPE. ALARM and TEST are used for emergency announcements. You can’t search for these, but the tuner will switch automatically to this RDS broadcast signal. NO TYPE appears when a program type can- not 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 NO TYPE may be shown. In this case, the PS display is shown after a few seconds.
3 RDS is only possible in the FM band.
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