Using the Tuner

An introduction to RDS (European model only)

Radio Data System, or RDS as it’s usually known, is a system used by 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. This information shows up as text on the display, and you can switch between the kind of information shown. Although you don’t get RDS information from all FM radio stations, you do with most.

Probably the best feature of RDS is that you can search automatically by type of program. So, if you felt like listening to jazz, you could search for a station that’s broadcasting a show with the program type, JAZZ. There are around 30 such program types, including various genres of music, news, sport, talk shows, financial information, and so on.

The receiver lets you display three different kinds of RDS information: Radio Text, Program Service Name, and Program Type.

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

Sports

EDUCATE

Educational material

DRAMA

Radio drama

CULTURE

Arts and culture

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

“Middle of the road” music

LIGHT M

‘Light’ classical music

CLASSICS

‘Serious’ classical music

OTHER M

Other music not fitting any of

 

the above categories

WEATHER

Weather reports

FINANCE

Finance and business

CHILDREN

Children’s entertainment

SOCIAL

Social affairs

RELIGION

Religious programming

PHONE IN

Phone-in talk shows

TRAVEL

Travel

LEISURE

Leisure interests and hobbies

JAZZ

Jazz music

COUNTRY

Country music

NATION M

Popular music in a language

 

other than English

OLDIES

Popular music from the ’50s

FOLK M

Folk music

DOCUMENT Documentaries

In addition, there is a program type called ALARM, used for exceptional emergency announcements. You can’t search for this, but the tuner will switch automatically to this RDS broadcast signal.

Using the RDS display

To display the different types of RDS information available, press TUNER button on the remote control and use the DISPMODE button to cycle through the types of RDS information.

Each press changes the display as follows:

R T

 

P S

 

PTY

 

 

FREQ

• If any noise is picked up while displaying

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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 being transmitted from the broadcast station. If you have entered a name for the station, it is displayed instead of RT data. If you haven’t, the display will automatically switch to the PS data display. If no PS data is transmitted from the station, the frequency will be displayed.

In the PTY display, there are cases where NO DATA or NO TYPE is shown. If this happens, the PS display is shown after a few seconds.

This unit converts lower case characters transmitted by broadcast station to upper case characters.

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Pioneer VSX-D2011-G An introduction to RDS European model only, Using the RDS display, News, Leisure interests and hobbies

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