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OPERATING YOUR TUNER
FRONT PANEL CONTROLS
1 Standby
When the Z132 is plugged into a live wall socket and the POWER
switch is turned ON, it will power up in “standby” mode and the
LED (Light Emitting Diode) by the STANDBY button will glow red.
In this mode the internal circuitry is powered up, but disabled so
that it consumes very little power and the audio outputs are muted
by a relay. The display will show the time clock (reading “00.00” at
first switch-on) with the decimal point flashing every second.
When the STANDBY button is pressed the circuitry will be
activated and the display will show the last tuned station. After a
few seconds delay the audio outputs will be enabled. During this
delay period while the internal circuitry is settling the STANDBY
LED will flash blue. When the outputs are de-muted it will glow
blue continuously. When the STANDBY button is pressed again
the Z132 will be returned to standby mode, the STANDBY LED
will glow red again and all other LEDs and the display will return
to showing he clock.
CAUTION: WHEN IN STANDBY MODE THE INTERNAL
CIRCUITRY IS STILL LIVE, SO ALL SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
MUST BE FOLLOWED.
2 Infra-red receiver
The infra-red (IR) remote control receiver is mounted behind this
window in the position indicated. It must therefore not be
obscured when the component is to be operated using the remote
control handset. Where possible it is best to arrange that the IR
window is in “line-of-sight” of the remote handset.
3 Display
The operation of the Z132 is indicated on a high quality blue
Vacuum Fluorescent Display.
Display with all segments illuminated (Figure 1)
By default, the display will show the Station Name as soon as it
has been acquired from the RDS signal (except in North America).
If no RDS signal is present, the tuned frequency will be displayed
to the right, together with the Preset Number, MAN or SRCH to
indicate the selected tuning mode (see section 5).
Stereo indicator
The “STEREO” icon is illuminated when a stereo broadcast is
being received and the Z132 is not switched to MONO mode.
On tune indicator
The “ON TUNE” icon is illuminated when a signal, even a very
weak one, is received and the station is ON TUNE.
RDS indicator
The “RDS” icon is illuminated when an FM station is being
received which carries RDS data. Once the station is tuned it may
take a few seconds for the data to be acquired and so illuminate
the icon.
4 Tune up and tune down
These buttons are used to set the frequency in MANUAL,
PRESET and SEARCH modes. The function of the buttons is
determined by the mode selected (see below), but in all modes,
pressing the right hand button will perform an incremental
operation and the left hand button a decrement.
5 Mode
The MODE button is used to change between PRESET,
MANUAL and SEARCH tuning modes.
Preset tuning mode
When PRESET mode is selected the Z132 will go to the
frequency of the last used preset station. The display will briefly
read “PRESET” and then show the preset number (e.g. “PRE16”)
and the tuned frequency (see Figure 2). If an FM RDS station has
been tuned the display will change to show the station name once
the information has been acquired, unless the Station Name
feature has been switched off – see page 5 (Station Name is not
active by default in North America).
When the TUNE UP button is pressed it will tune to the preset
stored with the next higher number while pressing the TUNE
DOWN button will move to the next lower stored preset. The tuner
will skip preset positions that have not been programmed, e.g. if
station 3 is not programmed, it will skip from station 2 to station 4.
If the tuner is stepped beyond the highest number preset stored, it
will “wrap-around” and step back to the lowest numbered preset.
Preset display mode – without Station Name
(Figure 2)
Manual tuning mode
When MANUAL mode is selected the tuned frequency will not
change. The display will briefly read “MANUAL” and then show
“MAN” followed by the tuned frequency (see Figure 3). If an FM
RDS station has been tuned the display will change to show the
station name once the information has been acquired, unless the
Station Name feature has been switched off – see page 5 (Station
Name is not active by default in North America).
Once set to Manual tune mode, the TUNE UP/DOWN buttons will
change the tuned frequency in discrete steps as shown in the
table below:
Europe
and other
North
America
FM tuning steps
50kHz
50kHz
AM tuning steps
9kHz
10kHz
