Pioneer SX-20DAB-K, Operating Instructions Manual

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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.
•
PTY search
– Use to automatically search and
receive the stations broadcasting the desired
program type.
1 Press FM/DAB repeatedly to select the
FM band.
• RDS is only possible in the FM band.
2 Press 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 SEARCH
RDS search

PTY SEARCH
PTY (Program Type) search

OFF
Off

(
RDS
SEARCH
)
4
2
1
3
RDS
PTY MUTE
VOLUME
ENTER
SCAN
RETURN FM/DAB
TOP
MENU
SEARCH DISPLAY
TUNE
TUNE
PR
ES
ET
PR
ES
ET
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.
• If
NO PTY
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:
• Program Service Name (
PS
) – The name of the radio
station.
• Program Type (
PTY
) – This indicates the kind of
program currently being broadcast.
• 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 RDS
or
NO
TEXT
will be displayed.
Listening to the DAB
DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) is a digital
transmission system where audio signals are converted
to digital signals for broadcasting.
DAB broadcasts a group of data called multiplex
(ensemble) which may contain one or more stations
(services). Each station contains a primary service and
there may be one or more secondary services.
This allows several programs or services to be
transmitted on a single frequency.
Selecting DAB
RDS
PTY MUTE
VOLUME SCAN
TOP
MENU
SEARCH DISPLAY
TUNE
DAB SIGNAL
SERVICES
MULTIPLEX
(ENSEMBLE)
SERVICES
COMPONENTS
(STATIONS)
RDS
PTY MUTE
VOLUME
ENTER
SCAN
RETURN FM/DAB
TOP
MENU
SEARCH DISPLAY
TUNE
TUNE
PR
ES
ET
PR
ES
ET