Advanced Tuner Operations

Monitoring traffic, news, or information programmes (EON)

Enhanced Other Networks (EON) allows the tuner to automatically switch to a station broadcasting traffic, news, or information. After the programme ends, the tuner switches back to the station you were listening to. To use this function, be sure to store the stations beforehand.

To monitor traffic programmes

1Tune to a preset FM RDS station so that the RDS TP, or RDS TP EON indicators light in the display.

2Press TA so that “TA” appears in the display. Each time you press TA, the display changes as follows:

TA (Traffic Announcement) ,OFF

When the tuner automatically tunes in a traffic programme, the TA indicator flashes. If you do not want to listen to the entire programme, press TA to switch back to the original station.

To monitor news and/or information programmes

1Tune to a preset FM RDS station so that the RDS TP or RDS TP EON indicators light in the display.

2Press NEWS/INFO so that either “NEWS”, “INFO”, or “NEWS/INFO” appear in the display. Each time you press NEWS/INFO, the display changes as follows:

/NEWS /INFO /NEWS/INFO /OFF

When the tuner automatically tunes in a news or information programme, the respective indicator flashes. If you do not want to listen to the entire programme, press NEWS/INFO to switch back to the original station.

To stop monitoring the programme

Press TA or NEWS/INFO while the tuner is in the respective EON standby mode and the indicator goes off.

Notes

•If you tune in an AM (MW/LW) station or an FM station which does not provide the RDS service, the selected indicator (TA, NEWS, INFO, or NEWS/INFO) goes off and the tuner does not standby for EON stations.

•“Weak Signal” appears when the selected station has a weak signal. “Return” appears when the tuner is trying to retune a station with a weak signal.

•Turn off the EON feature when you want to record a programme without interruptions, especially when you want to do timer recording.

•“No EON” appears in the display if you select an EON programme before tuning to an RDS station.

•If you make EON CONTROL connections to a compatible Sony amplifier, the amplifier automatically switches the function mode to TUNER whenever the tuner receives a programme you are monitoring.

Locating traffic programmes (TA Search)

You can have the tuner locate stations currently broadcasting traffic programme from among the RDS stations stored in the tuner's preset memory.

1Press MENU.

2Turn TUNING/SELECT until “Traffic” appears in the display and press ENTER.

The unit enters search mode (“Search” and “Traffic” appear alternately in the display). When the tuner finds a traffic announcement, it stops searching. The tuner receives each station for 8 seconds.

3Press ENTER when the tuner receives the station you want to listen to that programme.

Locating a station by programme type (PTY)

You can locate a station you want by selecting a programme type. The tuner tunes in the type of programmes currently being broadcast from the RDS stations stored in the tuner's preset memory.

1Press PTY.
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