Sony CDX-C5000R: Listening to traffic announcements
Listening to traffic announcements: Sony CDX-C5000R
Table of contents
- Welcome ! Precautions
- Notes on CDs
- Table of Contents
- Location of controls
- Location of controls
- Resetting the unit Detaching the front panel
- Turning the unit on/off Setting the clock How to use the menu
- Listening to a CD
- Locating a specific track Locating a specific point in a track Automatically scrolling a disc name
- Playing tracks repeatedly Playing tracks in random order — Shuffle Play
- Labelling a CD — Disc Memo (For a CD unit with the CUSTOM FILE function)
- Locating a disc by name
- Selecting specific tracks for playback
- Memorising only the desired stations Memorising stations automatically
- Receiving the memorised stations
- Overview of the RDS function Retuning the same programme automatically Displaying the station name
- Listening to traffic announcements
- Presetting the RDS stations with the AF and TA data
- Locating a station by programme type
- Setting the clock automatically Labelling the rotary commander (optional)
- Using the rotary commander (optional)
- Adjusting the sound characteristics
- Attenuating the sound Changing the sound and display settings
- Boosting the bass sound Maintenance
- Cleaning the connectors Dismounting the unit
- Specifications
- Troubleshooting guide General CD/MD playback
- Radio reception RDS
- Error displays (when an optional CD/MD unit is connected)
Notes
Local link function
• When there is no alternative station in the area
(United Kingdom only)
and you do not need to search for an alternative
station, turn the AF function off by pressing
The Local Link function lets you select other
(AF) repeatedly until “AF-OFF” appears.
local stations in the area, even if they are not
• When “NO AF” and the station name flash
stored on your number buttons.
alternately, it means that the unit cannot find an
alternative station in the network.
• If the station name starts flashing after selecting
1 Press a number button that has a local
a station with the AF function on, this indicates
station stored on it.
that no alternative frequency is available. Press
either side of (SEEK/AMS) while the station name
is flashing (within eight seconds). The unit starts
2 Within five seconds, press the number
searching for another frequency with the same PI
button of the local station again.
(Programme Identification) data (“PI SEEK”
appears and no sound is heard). If the unit
cannot find another frequency, “NO PI” appears,
3 Repeat this procedure until the desired
and the unit returns to the previously selected
local station is received.
frequency.
Listening to a regional programme
The “REG-ON” (regional on) function lets you
Listening to traffic
stay tuned to a regional programme without
being switched to another regional station.
announcements
(Note that you must turn the AF function on.)
The unit is factory preset to “REG-ON,” but if
The Traffic Announcement (TA) and Traffic
you want to turn off the function, do the
Programme (TP) data lets you automatically
following.
tune in an FM station that is broadcasting
traffic announcements even if you are listening
to other programme sources.
1 During radio reception, press (MENU),
then press either side of (DISC/PRST)
repeatedly until “REG” appears.
Press (TA) repeatedly until “TA-ON”
appears.
The unit starts searching for traffic
2 Press the (+) side of (SEEK/AMS) until
information stations. “TP” appears in the
“REG-OFF” appears.
display when the unit finds a station
broadcasting traffic announcements.
3 Press (ENTER).
When the traffic announcement starts,
Note that selecting “REG-OFF” might cause
“TA” flashes. The flashing stops when the
the unit to switch to another regional
traffic announcement is over.
station within the same network.
Tip
To return to regional on, select “REG-ON” in
If the traffic announcement starts while you are
step 2.
listening to another programme source, the unit
automatically switches to the announcement and
goes back to the original source when the
Note
announcement is over.
This function does not work in the United
Kingdom and in some other areas.
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