Sony CDX-C5000RV: Listening to traffic announcements

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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