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OPERATION

Operation

Tuner Operation

The AVR 1550’s tuner is capable of tuning AM,
FM and FM Stereo broadcast stations and
receiving RDS data. Stations may be tuned
manually, or they may be stored as favorite
station presets and recalled from a 30 position
memory.

Station Selection

1. Press the

AM/FM Tuner Select

button

on the remote to select the tuner as an input.
The tuner may be selected from the front
panel by either pressing the

Input Source

Selector

until the tuner is active or by

pressing the

Tuner Band Selector

at any

time.

2. Press the

AM/FM Tuner Select

button

Tuner Band Selector

again to switch

between AM and FM so that the desired frequen-
cy band is selected.

3. Press the

Tuner Mode

button

on the

remote or hold the

Band Selector

on the

front panel pressed for 3 seconds to select
manual or automatic tuning.

When the

AUTO

indicator

is illuminated in the

Main Information Display

the tuner will

only stop at those stations that have a strong
enough signal to be received with acceptable
quality.

When the

AUTO

indicator

is not illuminated,

the tuner is in a manual mode and will stop at
each frequency increment in the selected band.

4. To select stations press any

Tuning

button

. When the

AUTO

indicator

is illumin-

ated, press the button to cause the tuner to
search for the next highest or lowest frequency
station that has an acceptable signal or hold the
button pressed to tune more quickly and release
it to start the auto search. In the Auto mode the
tuner will play each station in stereo or mono
mode, just as the program is transmitted. If the

AUTO

indicator

is not illuminated, tap the

Tuning

button

to advance one frequen-

cy increment at a time, or press and hold it to
locate a specific station. When the

TUNED

indicator

illuminates, the station is properly

tuned and should be heard with clarity.

5. Stations may also be tuned directly by press-
ing the

Direct

button

, and then pressing

the

Numeric Keys

that correspond to the

station’s frequency. The desired station will auto-
matically be tuned after the latest number is
entered. If you press an incorrect button while
entering a direct frequency, press the

Clear

button

to start over.

NOTE:

When the FM reception of a stereo

station is weak, audio quality will be increased
by switching to Mono mode by pressing the

Tuner Mode

button

on the remote or

holding the

Band Selector

on the front

panel pressed for 3 seconds until the

STEREO

indicator

goes out.

Preset Tuning

Using the remote, up to 30 stations may be
stored in the AVR 1550’s memory for easy recall
using the front panel controls or the remote.

To enter a station into the memory, first tune the
station using the steps outlined above. Then:

1. Press the

Memory

button

on the

remote. Note that

M E M O R Y

indicator

will

illuminate and flash in the

Main Information

Display

2. Within five seconds, press the

Numeric Keys

corresponding to the location where you

wish to store this station’s frequency. Once
entered, the preset number will appear in the

Preset Number/Sleep Time Display

3. Repeat the process after tuning any additional
stations to be preset.

Recalling Preset Stations

• To manually select a station previously entered
in the preset memory, press the

Numeric Keys

that correspond to the desired station’s

memory location.

• To manually tune through the list of stored
preset stations one by one, press the

Preset

Stations Selector

buttons

)

on the

front panel or remote.

RDS Operation

The AVR 1550 is equipped with RDS (Radio Data
System), which brings a wide range of informa-
tion to FM radio. Now in use in many countries,
RDS is a system for transmitting station call
signs or network information, a description of
station program type, text messages about the
station or specifics of a musical selection, and
the correct time.

RDS Tuning

When an FM station is tuned in and it contains
RDS data, the

RDS Indicator

will illuminate

and the AVR 1550 will automatically display the
station’s call sign or other program service in the

Main Information Display

RDS Display Options

In normal RDS operation the display will indi-
cate the station name, broadcast network or
call letters. Pressing the

RDS

button

enables you to cycle through the various data
types in the following sequence:

• The station’s call letters (with some private sta-
tions other information too).

• The station’s frequency.

• The Program Type (PTY) as shown in the list
below.

• A “text” message (Radiotext, RT) containing
special information from the broadcast station.
Note that this message may scroll across the dis-
play to permit messages longer than the eight
positions in the display. Depending on signal
quality, it may take up to 30 seconds for the text
message to appear; in that time, the word

TEXT

will flash in the Information Display

when RT is selected.

• The current time of day (CT). Note that it may
take up to two minutes for the time to appear,
in that time the word

TIME

will flash in the

information display when CT is selected.
Please note that the accuracy of the time data is
dependent on the radio station, not the
AVR 1550.

Some RDS stations may not include some of
these additional features. If the data required
for the selected mode is not being transmitted,
the

Main Information Display

will show

NO TYPE

NO TEXT