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Operation 04

An introduction to RDS

Radio Data System (RDS) is a system used by most FM

radio stations to provide listeners with various kinds of

information—the name of the station and the kind of

show they’re broadcasting, for example.

One feature of RDS is that you can search by type of

program. For example, you can search for a station

that’s broadcasting a show with the program type, JAZZ.

You can search the following program types:

NEWS

– News

AFFAIRS

– Current Affairs

INFO

– General Information

SPORT

– Sport

EDUCATE

– Educational

DRAMA

– Radio plays, etc.

CULTURE

– National or regional culture, theater, etc.

SCIENCE

– Science and technology

VARIED

– Usually talk-based material, such as quiz shows or

interviews.

POP M

– Pop music

ROCK M

– Rock music

EASY M

– Easy listening

LIGHT M

– ‘Light’ classical music

CLASSICS

– ‘Serious’ classical music

OTHER M

– Music not fitting above categories

WEATHER

– Weather reports

FINANCE

– Stock market reports, commerce, trading, etc.

CHILDREN

– Programs for children

SOCIAL

– Social affairs

RELIGION

– Programs concerning religion

PHONE IN

– Public expressing their views by phone

TRAVEL

– Holiday-type travel rather than traffic

announcements

LEISURE

– Leisure interests and hobbies

JAZZ

– Jazz

COUNTRY

– Country music

NATION M

– Popular music in a language other than English

OLDIES

– Popular music from the ’50s and ’60s

FOLK M

– Folk music

DOCUMENT

– Documentary

• In addition, there are three other program types,

TEST, ALARM and NONE.

TEST and ALARM are used for emergency

announcements.

NONE appears when a program type cannot be

found.

Searching for RDS programs

There are three ways of search for RDS programs as

follows.

• RDS search – Use to automatically search and

receive the stations offering RDS services.

• TP search – Use to automatically search and

receive the stations broadcasting the traffic

program.

• PTY search – Use to automatically search and

receive the stations broadcasting the desired

program type.

1Press

FM/AM

repeatedly to select the

FM band.

• RDS is only possible in the FM band.

2Press

RDS SEARCH

to select the search

mode you want.

The search mode changes as follows;

3 When the PTY search mode is selected,

press

RDS PTY

to select the program type

you want to hear.

RDS SRCH RDS search



TP SRCH TP (Traffic Program) search



PTY SRCH PTY (Program Type) search



OFF Off



(RDS SRCH)

RDS

PTY MUTE

VOLUME

MEM

P.SCAN

INPUTFM/AM

FM MODE

SEARCH DISPLAY

4 Press

/

to search the station.

The system starts searching through the station presets

for a match, stopping when it was found one. Repeat to

search for other stations.

• NO RDS is displayed if no other RDS station is

found.

• NO TRAFF is displayed if the signal is too weak or

there are no stations broadcasting the traffic

program.

•If NO PROG is displayed it means the tuner

couldn’t find that program type at the time of the

search.

Displaying RDS information

Use the RDS DISPLAY button to display the different

types of RDS information available.

1 Press RDS DISPLAY for RDS information.

Each press changes the display as follows:

• Current tuner frequency

• Program Service Name (PS) – The name of the radio

station.

•Program Type (PTY) – This indicates the kind of

program currently being broadcast.

• Clock Time (CT)

• Radio Text (RT) – Messages sent by the radio

station. For example, a talk radio station may

provide a phone number as RT.

Note

• If any noise is picked up while displaying the RT

scroll, some characters may be displayed

incorrectly.

• If the signals are too weak or no RDS service is

available, NO NAME, NO PTY, NO TIME or NO

TEXT will be displayed.

Sound settings

Adjusting the bass and treble

Use the bass and treble controls to adjust the overall

tone.

1 Use BASS +/– or TREBLE +/– on the

remote control to adjust bass or treble.

Note

• You can also use the front panel controls. Press

TONE repeatedly to select BASS or TREBLE, then

press /– or +/ to adjust the bass or treble as

desired.

Adjusting the sound volume balance

Adjust the sound volume balance between the left and

right speakers.

1 Press

BALANCE

then press

/

(

/–

+/

) to adjust the sound volume

balance.

RDS

PTY MUTE

VOLUME

MEM

P.SCAN

FM MODE

SEARCH DISPLAY

DIMMER

TONE DIRECT

SURROUND

SACD/CD

BASS

NETWORK

AUDIO

PLAYER

SACD PLAYER

FUNC

TREBLE

PHONO

NETWORK RECORDER

VOLUME

MEM

P.SCAN

INPUTFM/AM

FM MODE

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