07Listening to the radio

 

ENTER

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Choose ‘ST.Memory’ then press ENTER.

 

ENTER

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Select the station preset you want then

press ENTER.

Listening to station presets

1 Make sure the tuner function is selected.

2

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Select a station preset.

 

 

 

 

Alternatively, use the number buttons to select a preset directly.

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.

Displaying RDS information

You can display the different types of RDS information available.2

DISP Display the 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

Searching for RDS programs

You can search for a program type listed above.

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

1FM/AM Press to select the FM band.3

2DISP Press repeatedly until ‘Search’ appears in the display.

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

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 rather than 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

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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.

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 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 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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Pioneer SX-LX70SW manual Using RDS, Listening to station presets, Displaying RDS information, Searching for RDS programs

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