Pioneer XC-HM70-K: Listening to the radio

Listening to the radio

Listening to the radio

Improving FM sound

If the or indicators don’t light when tuning to an FM

The following steps show you how to tune in to FM and AM

station because the signal is weak, set the receiver to the

radio broadcasts using the automatic (search) and manual

mono reception mode.

(step) tuning functions. Once you are tuned to a station you

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Press BAND to select FM MONO.

can memorize the frequency for recall later. See Saving

This should improve the sound quality and allow you to enjoy

station presets below for more on how to do this.

the broadcast.

Saving station presets

If you often listen to a particular radio station, it’s convenient

to have the receiver store the frequency for easy recall

whenever you want to listen to that station. This saves the

effort of manually tuning in each time. This unit can

memorize up to 40 stations.

1 Press TUNER to select the tuner.

2 Use BAND to change the band (FM or AM), if necessary.

1 Tune to a station you want to memorize.

Each press switches the band between FM (stereo or mono)

See Listening to the radio above for more on this.

and AM.

2 Press TUNER EDIT.

3 Tune to a station.

The preset number is blinking.

There are three ways to do this:

3 Press PRESET

/

to select the station preset you

Automatic tuning

want.

To search for stations in the currently selected band,

You can also use the numeric buttons. See Direct track search

press and hold TUNE / for about a second. The

on page 14.

receiver will start searching for the next station, stopping

4 Press ENTER.

when it has found one. Repeat to search for other

The preset number stop blinking and the receiver stores the

stations.

station.

Manual tuning

To change the frequency one step at a time, press

TUNE /.

High speed tuning

Press and hold TUNE / for high speed tuning.

Release the button at the frequency you want.

– Lights when a normal broadcast channel.

– Lights when a stereo FM broadcast is being received in

auto stereo mode.

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Listening to station presets

You will need to have some presets stored to do this. See

Saving station presets above if you haven’t done this already.

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Press PRESET

/

to select the station preset you

want.

You can also use the numeric buttons.

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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

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display.

3 Input the name you want.

Choose a name up to eight characters long.

•Use / to select character position.

•Use / to select characters.

• The name is stored when ENTER is pressed.

Changing the noise cut mode

If you find that the AM sound quality is bad even after trying

the above, you may be able to improve it using a different

noise cut mode. Just choose the one that sounds best.

Default setting: Mode1

1 Press SETUP button after tuning to an AM radio station.

2Press

/

to select “Noise Cut”.

3Press

/

to choose a Noise cut mode (1, 2 or 3) then

press ENTER.

• 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 when recalled.