Pioneer F-F3MK2-K: Listening to FM/AM

Listening to FM/AM04

1 Use the “Auto tuning” or “Manual

tuning” operation to tune in the station to be

Preset stations

preset in the memory.

BAND

MENU

TUNING/PRESET

F3

POWER

STANDBY

RDS TUNED STEREO

2 Press the

MENU

button to select menu.

DISPLAY AUTO PRESET

ONOFF

3 Either turn the

TUNING/PRESET

dial or

press the

/

button to select “

Memory

”.

TUNER

DIMMER

4 Press the

TUNING/PRESET

dial or

ENTER

button to set the preset mode and make the

A/B/C D/E/F MPX

preset channel number flash.

G/H I/J

• Steps 1 to 4 can be skipped when using the

MEMORY button.

When this button is pressed, the preset

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memory standby mode is set, regardless of

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the menu setting at that time.

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5 While the preset channel number is

10

flashing, press one of the preset channel

VOLUME

range (

A

to

J

) buttons to select the desired

memory block (A to J).

MUTEAMP

6 While the preset channel number is

flashing, either turn the

TUNING/PRESET

A.PRESET

MENU

A.TUNE

dial, press the

/

or Station call (

1

to

10

)

button to select the desired preset channel (1

BAND TUNE

MEMORY

1

to 10).

PRESET

ENTER

PRESET

7 While the preset channel number is

TUNE

flashing, either press the

TUNING/PRESET

dial or the

MEMORY

button to store the

station in the preset memory.

• To preset other channels, repeat steps 2 to

6.

• A total of 100 broadcast stations can be

preset — 10 stations (channels 1 to 10) in

2

each of blocks A to J.

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1 When the preset channel is A1, pressing the  button or rotating the TUNING/PRESET dial to the left will cause the preset

channel to move to J10.

2 When a broadcast station is stored in memory, the MPX setting is simultaneously stored.

Listening to FM/AM 04

English

An introduction to RDS

RDS Search/PTY Search/TP Search

Radio Data System (RDS) is a system used by

most FM radio stations to provide listeners with

Searching for RDS programs

various kinds of information, such as the name

One of the most useful features of RDS is the

of the station and the kind of show being

ability to search for a particular kind of radio

broadcast.

program. You can search for any of the

One feature of RDS is that you can search by

program types listed above.

type of program. For example, you can search

1 Press the

BAND

button to select the FM

for a station that’s broadcasting a show with

2

band.

the program type, JAZZ.

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1

2 Press the

MENU

button to select menu.

You can search the following program types:

NEWS – News

FINANCE – Stock market

3 Select “RDS” by either rotating the

AFFAIRS – Current Affairs

reports, commerce,

TUNING/PRESET

dial or pressing the

/

INFO

– General Information

trading, etc.

button, then press either the

TUNING/

SPORT – Sport

CHILDREN – Programs for

PRESET

dial or

ENTER

button.

EDUCATE – Educational

children

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DRAMA – Radio plays, etc.

SOCIAL – Social affairs

4 Either turn the

TUNING/PRESET

dial or

CULTURE – National or

RELIGION – Programs

press

/

button to select the desired

regional culture, theater,

concerning religion

etc.

PHONE IN – Public

search mode (RDS search, PTY search or TP

SCIENCE – Science and

expressing their views by

search).

technology

phone

Nederlands

VARIED – Usually talk-

TRAVEL – Holiday-type

5 Press the

TUNING/PRESET

dial or

ENTER

based material, such as

travel information as

button to search for the RDS program you

quiz shows or interviews.

opposed to traffic

want to hear.

POP M – Pop music

announcements.

The system starts searching through the

ROCK M – Rock music

LEISURE – Leisure interests

station presets for a match. When it finds one,

EASY M – Easy listening

and hobbies

LIGHT M – ‘Light’ classical

JAZZ – Jazz

the search stops and the station plays for five

music

COUNTRY

– Country music

seconds.

CLASSICS – ‘Serious’

NATION M – Popular

classical music

music in a language other

6 If you want to continue listening to the

OTHER M – Music not

than English

station, press the

TUNING/PRESET

dial or

fitting above categories

OLDIES – Popular music

ENTER

button within five seconds.

WEATHER – Weather

from the ’50s and ’60s

If you don’t press the TUNING/PRESET knob or

reports

FOLK M – Folk music

ENTER button, searching resumes.

DOCUMENT

– Documentary

If the program type cannot be found, the unit

will automatically begin the frequency search

3

mode.

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1 In addition, ALARM may be displayed. ALARM is used for emergency broadcast announcements. You cannot search for this

type of announcement, but the tuner will switch automatically to this RDS signal in the event of a broadcast.

2 RDS is only possible in the FM band.

3 PTY searches station presets only. If no stations have been preset, or if the PTY search could not be found among the station

presets NO PTY DATA is displayed.

Listening to FM/AM04

Displaying RDS information

4 Input the name you want.

Use the DISPLAY button to display the

Choose from the following characters for a

1

name up to eight characters long.

different types of RDS information available.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

• Press the

DISPLAY

button for RDS

information.

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Each press changes the display as follows:

0123456789

• Radio Text (RT) – Messages sent by the

radio station. For example, a talk radio

!"#$%&'()*+,-./[ \ ]^_:;<=>? [space]

station may provide a phone number as RT.

•Use the TUNING/PRESET dial or /

• Program Service Name (PS) – The name of

buttons to select characters.

the radio station.

• Press the TUNING/PRESET dial or ENTER

•Program Type (PTY) – This indicates the

button to confirm a character. If no

kind of program currently being broadcast.

character is input, a space is input.

• Clock Time (CT)

• The name is stored when the TUNING/

PRESET dial or MEMORY button is

pressed after choosing the fourth

Naming station presets

character.

For easier identification, you can name your

5 Either turn the

TUNING/PRESET

dial,

station presets.

press the preset channel range (

A

to

J

) or

1 Choose the station preset you want to

station call (

1

to

10

) button.

name.

The display shows Station Name, then a

For how to do this, see “Recalling preset

blinking cursor at the first character position.

stations” (page 15).

Tip

2 Press the

MENU

button to select menu.

3 Select Station Name by either rotating the

• To delete a station name, repeat steps 4

TUNING/PRESET

dial or pressing the

/

and 5, and input all blank spaces in place



button, then press either the

TUNING/

of the name.

PRESET

dial or

ENTER

button.

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1 • If any noise is picked up while displaying the RT scroll, some characters may be displayed incorrectly.

• NO ** DATA will appear when the required data cannot be found.

Listening to FM/AM 04

English

Last function memory

Initialization of the

• This unit is equipped with a last function

microprocessor

memory which stores the input and output

• When the indication of the display is not

setting conditions as they were

normal or when the operation of the unit

immediately before the power is switched

does not shows the reasonable result, the

off.

initializaton of the microprocessor is

This function eliminates the need to

required by the following procedure.

perform complicated resettings when the

1 Press the unit’s

POWER

button to turn

power is switch on.

the power off.

• The unit is also equipped with a back-up

FrançaisDeutsch

memory.

2 Press the unit’s

POWER

button to turn

the power on while holding down the

MENU

This function provides approximately two

button.

week of memory storage when the main

unit’s POWER button is off and with the

3“

Memory Clear?

” will be displayed in the

power cord disconnected.

display. Using the unit’s

TUNING/PRESET

Italiano Español

dial, select either “

Yes

” or “

No

” and press the

TUNING/PRESET

dial.

4If “

Yes

” is selected, the memory will be

cleared and the unit will then be set to

standby mode. If “

No

” is selected, the unit

Nederlands

1

will be set to standby mode.

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1 • If step 4 does not work, start over from step 1.

• If the microprocessor has been reset, all the button settings are reset to the default values (the values set upon shipment

from the factory).