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Saving station presets
If you often listen to a particular radio station, it’s convenient to have the receiver store the frequency for easy recall whenever you want to listen to that station. This saves the effort of manually tuning in each time. This unit can memorize up to 30 stations.
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Listening to station presets
You will need to have some presets stored to do this. See Saving station presets above if you haven’t done this already.
Press PRESET / to select the station preset you want.
•You can also use the number buttons on the remote control to recall the station preset.
Naming preset stations
An introduction to RDS
Radio Data System (RDS) is a system used by most FM radio stations to provide listeners with various kinds of
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:
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1 Tune to a station you want to memorize.
See Listening to the radio on page 18 for more on this.
2 Press TUNER EDIT.
The display shows PRESET, then a blinking MEM and station preset.
3Press PRESET / to select the station preset you
want.
You can also use the number buttons.
4Press ENTER.
The preset number stop blinking and the receiver stores the station.
Note
For easier identification, you can name all of your preset stations.
1 Choose the station preset you want to name.
See Listening to station presets above for how to do this.
2 Press TUNER EDIT twice.
The cursor at the first character position is blinking on the display.
3 Input the name you want.
Choose a name up to eight characters long.
•Use PRESET / to select character position.
•Use TUNE / to select characters.
•The name is stored when ENTER is pressed.
Tip
•To erase a station name, follow steps 1 and 2, and press ENTER while the display is blank. Press TUNER EDIT while the display is blank, to keep the previous name.
•Once you have named a station preset, Press DISP to show the name. When you want to return to the frequency display, press DISP several times to show the frequency.
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
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
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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 –
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
•If the receiver is left disconnected from the AC power outlet for over a month, the station memories will be lost and will have to be reprogrammed.
•Stations are stored in stereo. When the station is stored in the FM MONO mode, it shows as ST when recalled.
•In addition, there are three other program types, ALARM, ALARMTST, and NO TYPE. ALARM and ALARMTST are used for emergency announcements. NO TYPE appears when a program type cannot be found.
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