Changing the RDS modes

When an RDS station is received, “PS”, “PTY”, “RT” and/or “CT” that correspond to the RDS data services employed by the station light up on the display. By pressing the RDS MODE/FREQ button once or more, you can change the display mode among the RDS modes employed by the received station in the order shown below. (The RDS mode not employed by the station cannot be selected.) Illumination of the indicator on the head of a name of RDS mode shows that the corresponding RDS mode is now selected.

*When an RDS station is received, do not press the RDS MODE/FREQ button until one or some names of RDS modes light up on the display. If the button is pressed before one or some names light up on the display, the mode cannot be changed. This is because the unit has not received all of the RDS data on the station yet.

*If no name of RDS mode lights up on the display, the mode cannot be changed.

RDS MODE/FREQ

Notes

PS mode

The name of the station being received is displayed.

 

 

If the station does not employ the PS data service, this mode

 

 

 

 

will not be selected.

 

 

 

PTY mode

The type of the program on the station being received is

 

 

displayed. If the station does not employ the PTY data

 

 

 

 

service, this mode will not be selected.

 

 

(You can make this unit search for a station which is

 

 

broadcasting a program of your desired program type. For

 

 

details, refer to the next page.)

 

 

 

RT mode

Information about the program on the station being received

 

 

is displayed. Information is displayed by a maximum of 64

 

 

 

 

Roman Alphabets including umlaut sign. If other characters

 

 

are used on the RT data, they are displayed with under-bars.

 

 

If the station does not employ the RT data service, this mode

 

 

will not be selected.

 

 

 

CT mode

Current time is displayed in the following form. The CT data

 

 

from the station being received changes every minute.

Hour Minute

If the data is accidentally cut off, “CT WAIT” may light up. If the station does not employ the CT data service, this mode will not be selected.

Frequency

The frequency of the station being received is displayed.

display mode

 

RDS data service cannot be utilized by this unit if the received signal is not strong enough. Especially, the RT (Radio Text mode) needs much data to be received, so it may occur that RT mode cannot be displayed even if other RDS modes (PS, PTY, etc.) are displayed.

There may be a case that RDS data reception is not possible due to poor reception conditions. If so, press the TUNING MODE button so that “AUTO” goes off from the display. Though the reception mode is changed to monaural by this operation, when you change the display to an RDS mode, RDS data may be displayed.

If the signal strength gets weakened by external interference during receiving an RDS station, the RDS data service may be cut off

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suddenly and “ WAIT” will light up on the display.

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