Caliber RCD 212BTi, Manual

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RCD 212BTi • MANUAL
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Owner’ Manual
Radio Operation
(Cont)
RDS Function
RDS ( Radio Date System) service
availability varies with areas. Please
understand if RDS service is not
available in you area, the following
service is not available, either.
1. AF-ALTERNATIVE FREQUENCY
Press the AF button on the panel
to turn the AF function on or off.
When the Radio signal strength is
poor, enabling the AF function will
allow the unit to same PI (Program
Identification) as the current station
but with stronger signal strength, so
that you do not have to retune the
stations when driving between dif-
ferent transmitter coverage areas.
When AF symbol is on, it means
RDS information is received; when
AF symbol is flashing, it means RDS
information is not yet received.
PS (Program Service name): the
name of statin will be display instead
of frequency.
If RDS service is not available in
your area, turn off the AF mode.
Dufault setting is ON.
2. TA - TRAFFIC ANOUNCEMENT
Press the TA button to turn TA function
on or off.
In TA mode traffic program will be
automatically searched, until the
program is received. When traffic
announcement is received the unit
will temporarily switch to the tuner
mode(regardless of the current mode)
and begin broadcasting the announce-
ment. After the traffic announcement
is over, it will return to the previous
mode and volume level.
To interrupt traffic announcement
press TA button shortly; it will not
switch off the TA mode.
3. PTY - PROGRAMME TYPE
This radio will allow you to select the
type of programme required, and will
search for a station broadcasting that
type of programme. Press the PTY
button on the panel or button on the
RC once to show the music type.
Then press 1-6 button to choose the
different music types available.
Press the PTY button twice to show
the speech type programme. Then
press 1-6 button to choose the differ-
ent speech type programme. Each
number keye will show 3 different
speech programme for you to choose
(see table below).
Button
Music
group
Speech
group
1
Pop, Rock News,
Affairs,
Info
2
Easy,
Light
Sport,
Educate,
Drama
3
Classics,
Other
Culture,
Science,
Varied
4
Jazz,
Country
Weather,
Finance,
Children
5
Nation,
Oldies
Social,
Religion,
Phone IN
6
Folk Travel,
Leisure,
Document
when PTY is selected, the radio starts
to search corresponding PTY infor-
mation, and stops if the correspond-
ing PTY information is detected. If no
buttons are pressed within several
seconds, previously selected PTY is
searched. During 1 loop, if desired
PTY is not found, the unit will return to
previous mode. Press PTY button on
the panel or button on the RC for 3rd
time to switch the PTY function off.
4. MASK DPI - MASK ALL
Press the sound select button for
seconds, the display will show TA
SEEK. Press the sound select button
again so that the unit will show MASK
DPI. Rotate the encoder volume to