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LISTENING TO RDS BROADCASTS(FM ONLY)
RDS Tuner(Regional Option for some countries in Europe, etc.)
• You can search for stations by program type.
• “SEARCH” is displayed for several seconds.
RDS(Radio Data System) is a method for sending information signals together with the transmitter signals. Your tuner is
capable of translating these signals and putting the information on the display. These codes contain the following information.
Program Service name(PS), A list of Program Types(PTY), Radio Text(RT).
■Notes :
• In the other countries, RDS tuner function cannot be available.
• RDS is only possible in the FM band.
• RDS searches for the preset stations only. If no stations have been stored in the memory, or if the program type could not
be found among the preset stations, “NO PTY” is displayed.
Therefore, preset the radio stations before searching for RDS stations.
Searching for stations by program type
1. In the FM mode, press the SEARCH MODE
button.
• The tuner start searching through the preset stations for
a match.
• When a station is found, the search stops and the
stations plays for five seconds.
• If no stations is found, “NO PTY” is displayed.
• If you don’t press the OK button, searching resumes.
2. While displaying “SEARCH”, select the desired
program type.
3. While displaying the selected program type,
press the OK button.
4. If you want to keep listening to the station, press
the OK button within the five seconds.
• Each time these buttons are pressed, one of different
types of programs is selected.
(NEWS, AFFAIRS, INFO, SPORT, EDUCATE,
DRAMA, CULTURE, SCIENCE, VARIED, POP M,
ROCK M, EASY M, LIGHT M, CLASSICS, OTHER M,
WEATHER, FINANCE, CHILDREN, SOCIAL,
RELIGION, PHONE IN, TRAVEL, LEISURE, JAZZ,
COUNTRY, NATION M, OLDIES, FOLK M,
DOCUMENT)
• If “SEARCH” disappears, press the SEARCH MODE
button again.
• Each time the DISPLAY button is pressed, the display
mode changes as follows:
* 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.
• If the signals are too weak or no RDS service is
available, “NO TEXT”, “NO NAME” or “NO PTY” will be
displayed.
• In the FM mode,
Displaying RDS information
Frequency
Surround
mode
Volume
Radio
Text
(RT)
→→→→
Program
Type
(PTY)
←←
Program
Service name
(PS)
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