Using the tuner

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Radio Text (RT) is messages sent by the radio station. These can be anything the broadcaster chooses—a talk radio station might give out it telephone number as RT, for example.

Program Service Name (PS) is the name of the radio station.

Program Type (PTY) indicates the kind of program currently being broadcast.

The receiver can search for and display the following program types:

NEWS – News

AFFAIRS – Current affairs INFO – General information SPORT – Sport

EDUCATE – Educational material DRAMA – Radio plays or serials

CULTURE – National or regional culture, theatre, 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 music LIGHT M – ‘Light’ classical music CLASSICS – ‘Serious’ classical music

OTHER M – Other music not fitting any of the above categories

WEATHER – Weather

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 – Documentaries

In addition, there are three other program types, ALARM, NO DATA and NO TYPE. ALARM used for exceptional emergency announcements. You can’t search for this, but the tuner will switch automatically to this RDS broadcast signal. NO DATA is displayed when there is no RDS data to display. NO TYPE appears when a type cannot be found.

Displaying RDS information

Use the DISPLAY button to display the different types of RDS information available (RT, PS and PTY).

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Press DISPLAY to select the RDS information display.

Each press changes the display as follows:

RT – Radio Text display

PS – Program Service display

PTY – Program Type display

Current tuner frequency

In the RT mode, if any noise is picked up while displaying the text, some characters may be displayed incorrectly temporarily.

In the RT, when no RT data is transmitted from the broadcast station, NO RADIO TEXT DATA is displayed once and after that the PS data is displayed. If you have entered a name for that station it will be displayed.

In the PTY mode, there are cases where NO DATA is displayed. In this case the tuner will automatically switch to the PS mode after a few seconds.

If reception conditions are strong but the RDS data is displayed incorrectly, press RF ATT.

Searching for RDS programs

One of the most useful features of RDS is the ability to search for a particular kind of radio program. You can search for any of the program types listed on the previous page —these cover all kinds of music, as well as news, weather forecasts, sports programs, and a variety of others.

 

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Pioneer VSX-C301 manual Displaying RDS information, Searching for RDS programs

VSX-C301 specifications

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