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FM RDS operations

Searching for your favorite FM RDS programme

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You can tune in to a station broadcasting your

favorite programme by searching for a PTY code.

! Start searching for your favorite

To store your favorite programme, see page

programme.

14.

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Ÿ Select a PTY code.

If there is a station broadcasting a

programme of the same PTY code as

you have selected, that station is tuned

in.

You can move to the other lists by

pressing 4/¢.

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2 Select a PTY code.

What you can do with RDS

RDS (Radio Data System) allows FM

stations to send an additional signal along

with their regular programme signals.

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By receiving the RDS data, this receiver can

do the following:

Programme Type (PTY) Search (see page 13)

• Temporarily switches to Traffic

Announcement—TA Standby Reception.

(See page 15.)

• Temporarily switches to your favorite

You can move to the other lists by

programme—PTY Standby Reception. (See

pressing 4/¢.

pages 14 – 16, and 36.)

Tracing the same programme automatically

—Network-Tracking Reception (see page 16)

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• Programme Search (see page 36)

PTY codes

News, Affairs, Info, Sport, Educate, Drama,

Culture, Science, Varied, Pop M (music),

Rock M (music), Easy M (music),

Light M (music), Classics, Other M

(music), Weather, Finance, Children, Social,

Religion, Phone In, Travel, Leisure, Jazz,

4 Select a preset number.

Country, Nation M (music), Oldies, Folk M

(music), Document

Storing your favorite programmes

You can store six favorite programme types.

Preset programme types:

5 Store the setting.

1

6 Repeat steps 2 to 5 to store other

PTY codes into other preset

numbers.

7 Exit from the setting.

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PTY Standby Reception

Using the standby receptions

PTY Standby Reception allows the receiver

to switch temporarily to your favorite PTY

TA Standby Reception

programme from any source other than AM.

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TA Standby Reception allows the receiver to

This function also takes effect for the DAB

switch temporarily to Traffic Announcement

tuner.

(TA) from any source other than AM.

If a station starts broadcasting a traffic

To select your favorite PTY code for PTY

announcement, “Traffic News” appears on the

Standby Reception, see page 36.

display, and this receiver temporarily tunes

The PTY indicator either lights up or flashes.

in to the station. The volume changes to the

preset TA volume level (see page 36).

To activate the PTY Standby Reception

1 Enter the MODE menu (see page 5).

To activate TA Standby Reception

2 Select “PTY.”

TP indicator appears.

If the TP indicator lights up, TA Standby

Reception is activated.

If the TP indicator flashes, TA Standby

3 Select one of the PTY codes (see page

Reception is not yet activated. (This occurs

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when you are listening to an FM station

without the RDS signals required for TA

Standby Reception.)

To activate TA Standby Reception, tune in to

another station (or service) providing these

signals. The TP indicator will stop flashing

and remain lit.

To deactivate the TA Standby Reception

The TP indicator goes off.

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4 Exit from the setting.

Tracking the same programme—

Network-Tracking Reception

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When driving in an area where FM reception

is not sufficient enough, this receiver

automatically tunes in to another FM RDS

station of the same network, possibly

broadcasting the same programme with stronger

PTY indicator appears.

signals (see the illustration below).

If the PTY indicator lights up, PTY

When shipped from the factory, Network-

Standby Reception is activated.

Tracking Reception is activated.

If the PTY indicator flashes, PTY Standby

To change the Network-Tracking Reception

Reception is not yet activated.

setting, see “AF-Regn’l” on page 36.

To activate PTY Standby Reception, tune

in to another station (or service) providing

these signals. The PTY indicator will stop

Programme A broadcasting on different

flashing and remain lit.

frequency areas (01 – 05)

To deactivate the PTY Standby Reception

Select “Off” in step 3 on page 15.

The PTY indicator goes off.

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Disc/SD card operations

Playing a disc in the receiver

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All tracks will be

played repeatedly until

you change the source

or eject the disc.

When inserting an audio CD or a CD Text

About MP3 and WMA discs

disc:

Total playing

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MP3 and WMA (Windows Media

Audio)

Total track number

time

“tracks” (words “file” and “track” are used

interchangeably) are recorded in “folders.”

When an MP3 or a WMA folder includes

an image <jll> file edited by Image

Converter (Wide Ver 1.2)—supplied in the

CD-ROM, you can show the image on the

Clock display

display while the tracks in the folder are

Current track

3

Disc name

*

played back—Image Link. (See pages 19,

number

34, and 52 for details.)

When inserting an MP3 or a WMA disc:

3

Track name*

1

*

Either the MP3 or WMA indicator lights up

1

depending on the detected file.

File type

*

Clock display

2

*

The album name/performer with indicator

and the track title with

indicator will

appear if “ID3 Tag” is set to “On” (see

page 36).

3

*

Appear only for CD Texts and CDs if it has

been assigned or recorded. (“No Name”

Total folder number

Total track number

appears for a while if no name is recorded

or assigned to an audio CD.)

Current

Elapsed

Current folder

track

playing

number

number

time

To stop play and eject the disc

To return the control panel to

its previous position, press it

again.

2

2

Track name*

Folder name

*

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