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FM RDS operations
Searching for your favorite FM RDS programme
You can tune in to a station broadcasting your
What you can do with RDS
favorite programme by searching for a PTY code.
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• To store your favorite programme, see page
RDS (Radio Data System) allows FM
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stations to send an additional signal along
with their regular programme signals.
By receiving the RDS data, this receiver can
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do the following:
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Programme Type (PTY) Search (see the left
column)
• Temporarily switches to Traffic
Announcement—TA Standby Reception.
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(See page 13.)
•
Temporarily switches to your favorite
programme—PTY Standby Reception. (See
pages 14 and 33.)
•
Tracing the same programme automatically
—Network-Tracking Reception (see page 14)
! Select a PTY code.
• Programme Search (see page 33)
*
• Receiving the message service—RDS
Radiotext (RT) (see page 15)
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, Country, Nation M
(music), Oldies, Folk M (music), Document
If there is a station broadcasting a
programme of the same PTY code as
you have selected, that station is tuned
in.
* Press to go to the next list; hold to go
back to the previous list.
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6 Repeat steps 3 to 5 to store other
Storing your favorite programmes
PTY codes into other preset
numbers.
You can store six favorite programme types.
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7 Exit from the setting.
Preset programme types:
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Using the standby receptions
2
TA Standby Reception
TA Standby Reception allows the receiver to
switch temporarily to Traffic Announcement
(TA) from any source other than AM.
• If a station starts broadcasting a traffic
announcement, “Traffic News” appears on the
3 Select a PTY code.
display, and this receiver temporarily tunes
in to the station. The volume changes to the
preset TA volume level (see page 33).
To activate TA Standby Reception
4 Select a preset number.
TP indicator appears.
• If the TP indicator lights up, TA Standby
Reception is activated.
• If the TP indicator flashes, TA Standby
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Reception is not yet activated. (This occurs
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.
Selected PTY code is stored in the selected
preset number.
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To deactivate the TA Standby Reception
• If the PTY indicator lights up, PTY
Standby Reception is activated.
The TP indicator goes off.
• If the PTY indicator flashes, PTY Standby
Reception is not yet activated.
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To activate PTY Standby Reception, tune
in to another station (or service) providing
these signals. The PTY indicator will stop
PTY Standby Reception
flashing and remain lit.
PTY Standby Reception allows the receiver
to switch temporarily to your favorite PTY
To deactivate the PTY Standby Reception
programme from any source other than AM.
Select “PTY Off” in step 2.
• This function also takes effect for the DAB
The PTY indicator goes off.
tuner.
To select your favorite PTY code for PTY
Standby Reception, see page 33.
Tracking the same programme—
The PTY indicator either lights up or flashes.
Network-Tracking Reception
To activate the PTY Standby Reception
When driving in an area where FM reception
1
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
signals (see the illustration below).
2 Select one of the PTY codes.
When shipped from the factory, Network-
Tracking Reception is activated.
To change the Network-Tracking Reception
setting, see “AF-Regn’l” on page 33.
Programme A broadcasting on different
frequency areas (01 – 05)
3 Exit from the setting.
PTY indicator appears.
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To show the RDS Radiotext (RT)
Using the message service—
information
RDS Radiotext (RT)
While listening to a station that supports
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RT....
What is RDS Radiotext
RDS Radiotext is part of the RDS data signal
to transmit various text information (e.g.
programme information, phone numbers,
e-mail and web addresses, artist/title
information and news headlines). The text
service is part of the RDS broadcast.
One message may contain up to 64
characters.
The message service is an optional service
and is not supported by all broadcasters.
Radiotext screen is shown.
Once you tuned in to a station that supports the
message service, the service is automatically
received.
It takes time to load data. While loading,
To use the text message service, select the
“Loading” appears.
Radiotext (RT) screen (see page 4).
If text message is unavailable, the text
screen will automatically change to source
operation screen. The text screen will
automatically appear again when the text
service is available.
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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 tracks
disc:
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MP3 and WMA (Windows Media
Audio)
Total playing 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
Total track number
display while the tracks in the folder are
played back—ImageLink. (See pages 18,
2
Disc name*
2
Track name*
30, and 48 for details.)
• When inserting an MP3 or a WMA disc:
If no name is assigned to an audio CD:
Elapsed playing time
Total folder number
File type
Current track number
Total track number
To stop play and eject the disc
1
Current folder*
Elapsed playing time
To return the control panel to
its previous position, press it
again.
1
Current track*
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