Pioneer VSX-820-S Silver: Using the tuner

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Chapter 7:

Using the tuner

High speed tuning

Press and hold TUNE / for high speed

Listening to the radio

tuning. Release the button at the frequency

The following steps show you how to tune in to

you want.

FM and AM radio broadcasts using the

automatic (search) and manual (step) tuning

Improving FM stereo sound

functions. Once you are tuned to a station you

If the TUNE or ST indicators don’t light when

can memorize the frequency for recall later—

tuning to an FM station because the signal is

see Saving station presets below for more on

weak, press the BAND button to select FM

how to do this.

MONO and set the receiver to the mono

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reception mode. This should improve the

sound quality and allow you to enjoy the

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broadcast.

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Saving station presets

1Press

TUNER

to select the tuner.

If you often listen to a particular radio station,

it’s convenient to have the receiver store the

2Use

BAND

to change to

BAND

(FM or

frequency for easy recall whenever you want to

AM), if necessary.

listen to that station. This saves the effort of

Each press switches the band between FM

manually tuning in each time. This unit can

(stereo or mono) and AM.

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memorize up to 30 stations.

3 Tune to a station.

There are three ways to do this:

Automatic tuning

To search for stations in the currently

selected band, press and hold TUNE /

for about a second. The receiver will start

searching for the next station, stopping

when it has found one. Repeat to search for

other stations.

Manual tuning

To change the frequency one step at a

time, press TUNE /.

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AUDIO

TUNER EDIT

MASTER

PARAMETER

TOOLS

VOLUME

MENU

TOP

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MENU

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ENTER

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HOME

MENU

SETUP

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BAND

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RETURN

PTY SEARCH

DVR CD

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DTV/

TV

MUTE

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BASS

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TUNER

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HDD

DVD

VCR

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DISP

1 • If the receiver is left disconnected from the AC power outlet for over a month, the station memories will be lost and will have

to be reprogrammed.

• Stations are stored in stereo. When the station is stored in the FM MONO mode, it shows as ST when recalled.

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1 Tune to a station you want to memorize.

Tip

See Listening to the radio on page 48 for more

on this.

• To erase a station name, follow steps 1 and

2, and press ENTER while the display is

2 Press

TUNER EDIT

.

blank. Press TUNER EDIT while the display

The display shows PRESET, then a blinking

is blank, to keep the previous name.

MEM and station preset.

• Once you have named a station preset,

3 Press

PRESET /

to select the station

Press DISP to show the name. When you

preset you want.

want to return to the frequency display,

You can also use the number buttons.

press DISP several times to show the

frequency.

4 Press

ENTER

.

After pressing ENTER, the preset number stop

blinking and the receiver stores the station.

Listening to station presets

You will need to have some presets stored to do

this. See Saving station presets on page 48 if

you haven’t done this already.

• Press

PRESET /

to select the station

preset you want.

• You can also use the number buttons on

the remote control to recall the station

preset.

Naming preset stations

For easier identification, you can name all of

your preset stations.

1 Choose the station preset you want to

name.

See Listening to station presets above for how

to do this.

2 Press

TUNER EDIT

twice.

The cursor at the first character position is

blinking on the display.

3 Input the name you want.

Choose a name up to eight characters long.

•Use the PRESET / buttons to select

character position.

•Use the TUNE / buttons to select

characters.

• The name is stored when ENTER is

pressed.

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An introduction to RDS

Radio Data System (RDS) is a system used by

most FM radio stations to provide listeners with

various kinds of information—the name of the

station and the kind of show they’re

broadcasting, for example.

One feature of RDS is that you can search by

type of program. For example, you can search

for a station that’s broadcasting a show with

the program type, JAZZ.

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You can search the following program types:

Searching for RDS programs

NEWS – News

FINANCE – Stock market

You can search for a program type listed above.

AFFAIRS – Current Affairs

reports, commerce,

INFO – General

trading, etc.

1 Press

TUNER

then press

BAND

to select

2

Information

CHILDREN – Programs for

the FM band.

SPORT – Sport

children

EDUCATE – Educational

SOCIAL – Social affairs

2 Press

PTY SEARCH

.

DRAMA – Radio plays, etc.

RELIGION – Programs

SEARCH shows in the display.

CULTURE – National or

concerning religion

regional culture, theater,

PHONE IN – Public

3 Press

PRESET /

to select the program

etc.

expressing their views by

type you want to hear.

SCIENCE – Science and

phone

technology

TRAVEL – Holiday-type

4 Press

ENTER

to search for the program

VARIED – Usually talk-

travel rather than traffic

type.

based material, such as

announcements

The system starts searching through the

quiz shows or interviews.

LEISURE – Leisure interests

station presets for a match, stopping when it

POP M – Pop music

and hobbies

ROCK M – Rock music

JAZZ – Jazz

was found one. Repeat to search for other

EASY M – Easy listening

COUNTRY – Country

stations.

LIGHT M – ‘Light’ classical

music

If NO PTY is displayed it means the tuner

music

NATION M – Popular

couldn’t find that program type at the time of

CLASSICS – ‘Serious’

music in a language other

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classical music

than English

the search.

OTHER M – Music not

OLDIES – Popular music

fitting above categories

from the ’50s and ’60s

WEATHER – Weather

FOLK M – Folk music

reports

DOCUMENT –

Documentary

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RECEIVER

TV

SOURCESLEEP

CONTROL

RECEIVER

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INPUT

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1 In addition, there are three other program types, ALARMTST, ALARM, and NO TYPE. ALARM and ALARMTST are used for

emergency announcements. NO TYPE appears when a program type cannot be found.

2 RDS is only possible in the FM band.

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

presets NO PTY is displayed. FINISH means the search is complete.

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Displaying RDS information

Use the DISP button to display the different

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types of RDS information available.

• Press

DISP

for RDS information.

Each press changes the display as follows:

•Listening mode

•Master volume

• Radio Text (RT) – Messages sent by the

radio station. For example, a talk radio

station may provide a phone number as RT.

• Program Service Name (PS) – The name of

the radio station.

•Program Type (PTY) – This indicates the

kind of program currently being broadcast.

• Current tuner frequency (FREQ)

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

• If you see NO TEXT in the RT display, it means no RT data is sent from the broadcast station. The display will automatically

switch to the PS data display (if no PS data, NO NAME is displayed).

• In the PTY display, NO PTY may be shown.