Sony STR-DE245: Before You Use Your Receiver Storing FM Stations Automatically in Alphabetical

Getting Started

Before You Use Your Receiver

Storing FM Stations

Automatically in Alphabetical

Before turning on the receiver, make sure that you have:

• Set the SPEAKERS button to ON.

Order (“Auto-betical”)

Before you use your receiver for the first time or when

With “Auto-betical select” you can automatically store

you want to clear the receiver's memory, do the

up to 30 FM and FM RDS stations in alphabetical order

procedure below:

without redundancy. Additionally, “Auto-betical

select” only stores the stations with the clearest signals.

DIMMER

?/1 (power)

If you want to store FM or AM (MW) stations one by

one, see “Presetting Radio Stations” on page 14.

FM RDS stations are stored first, in alphabetical order

by their Station Name, followed by regular FM stations

in order of frequency. (For more details on RDS, see

page 15.)

1 Press ?/1 (power) to turn off the receiver.

MUTING

2 Hold down MEMORY and press ?/1 (power) to

1 Turn off the receiver.

turn the receiver on.

”AUTOBETICAL SELECT” appears and the

2 Press ?/1 (power) for more than 4 seconds.

receiver scans and stores all the FM and FM RDS

“INITIAL” appears in the display and the items

stations in the broadcast area.

including the following are reset or cleared:

“FINISH” appears when the receiver has finished

• All preset stations are reset to their factory

storing the FM and FM RDS stations.

settings.

• All sound field parameters are reset to their

To change a preset code to another station

factory settings.

See ”Presetting Radio Stations” on page 14.

• All index names (of preset stations and

To stop Auto-betical before storing all the stations

programme sources) are cleared.

Press ?/1 (power) to turn the receiver off.

• All adjustments made with the SET UP button are

Stations currently stored in the preset memory are

reset to their factory settings.

shifted to the rear (toward C0) and may be erased,

• The sound field memorized for each programme

depending on the number of stations received by Auto-

source and preset station is cleared.

betical select.

Notes

Turn on the receiver and check the following indicator.

• If you move to another area, repeat this procedure to store

• Press MUTING if the MUTING indicator turns on.

stations in your new area.

• Press DIMMER repeatedly to set the display at any

• For details on tuning to the preset stations, see page 14.

of four levels of brightness.

• Once “FINISH” appears, all the previous preset memories

are cleared. Preset AM stations again if necessary.

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