Automatic tuning

If you don’t know the frequency of the station you want, you can let the receiver scan all available stations in your area.

1 Press TUNER.

The last received station is tuned in.

2 Press FM or AM to select the FM or AM band.

3 Press TUNING + or TUNING –.

Press TUNING + to scan from low to high; press TUNING – to scan from high to low. The receiver stops scanning whenever a station is received.

When the receiver reaches either end of the band

Scanning is repeated in the same direction.

4 To continue scanning, press TUNING + or TUNING – again.

Preset tuning

After you have tuned in stations using Direct Tuning or Automatic Tuning, you can preset them to the receiver. Then you can tune in any of the stations directly by entering its

2-character preset code using the supplied remote. Up to 30 FM or AM stations can be preset. The receiver will also scan all the stations that you have preset.

Before tuning to preset stations, be sure to preset them by performing steps on “Presetting radio stations”.

Presetting radio stations

1 Press TUNER.

The last received station is tuned in.

2 Tune in the station that you want to preset using Direct Tuning (page 31) or Automatic Tuning (page 32).

3 Press MEMORY.

“MEMORY” appears in the display for a few seconds.

Do steps 4 to 6 before “MEMORY” goes out.

4 Press SHIFT to select a memory page (A, B or C).

Each time you press SHIFT, the letter “A”, “B”, or “C” appears in the display.

5 Press PRESET TUNING + or PRESET TUNING – to select a preset number.

If “MEMORY” goes out before you press the preset number, start again from step 3.

6 Press MEMORY again to store the station.

If “MEMORY” goes out before you can store the station, start again from step 3.

7 Repeat steps 2 to 6 to preset another station.

To change a preset number to another station

Do steps 1 to 6 to preset a new station to the number.

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