Basic Functions
About RDS broadcasting
Using the RDS (Radio Data System) toreceive FM stationsRDS allows FM stations to send an additional signal along with their regular program signals. For example, the stations send their station names, as well as information about what type of program they broadcast, such as sports or music, etc.
| Press the RDS DISPLAY button while | RDS DISPLAY | |
1 | ||
| listening to an FM station. |
• Each time you press the button, the display change to show you the following information : PS NAME RT CT Frequency
When tuned to an FM station which provides the RDS service, the RDS indicator lights up on the
PS
names will be displayed. <NO PS> appears if no signal is sent.
• PTY (Program Type) : Displays the type of |
| program currently being broadcast. |
RT
While searching, <RT> appears and then text messages the station sends will be displayed.
• PS NAME (Program Service Name) : Indicates |
| the name of broadcasting station and is |
| composed of 8 characters. |
• RT (Radio Text) : Decodes the text broadcast |
| by a station (if any) and is composed of |
| maximum 64 characters. |
• CT (Clock Time) : Decodes the real time clock |
from the FM frequency. Some stations may not |
| transmit PTY, RT or CT information therefore |
| this may not be displayed in all cases. |
| • TA (Traffic Announcement) : TA ON/OFF it |
| shows that the traffic announcement is in |
| progress. |
✎NOTE
RDS may not operate correctly if the station tuned is not transmitting RDS signal properly or if the signal strength is weak.
50 English•The display window cannot differentiate upper case and lower case letters and always uses upper case letters.
•The display window cannot show accented letters, <A,> for instance, may stands for accented <A’s> like <À, Â, Ä, Á, Å and Ã.>
PTY (Program Type) indication andOne of the advantages of the RDS service is that you can locate a particular kind of program from the preset channels by specifying the PTY codes.