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RDS
The Radio Data System (RDS) is a broadcasting service that allows stations
to send additional information along with the regular radio program signal.
1
Tune in to an FM RDS station (page 17).
2
Press the remote control RDS button.
Pressing the RDS button cycles through RDS modes as follows:
Program service (PS)
When you select Program service, “PS” will appear to the right of
“FM” and then the program service name or station's name will be
displayed. If there is no program service data, the frequency will be
displayed.
RDS Program type (PTY)
When you select RDS Program type, “PTY” will appear to the right of
“FM” and then the program type will be displayed.
RDS Radio text (RT)
When you select RDS Radio text, “RT” will appear to the right of “FM”
and then information from the station consisting of up to 64 charac-
ters will be displayed.
RDS Clock time (CT)
Displays time information provided by the station.
o
This setting is disabled when the unit is shipped new from the
factory. To change this setting, see page 7.
PTY search
You can search for stations by program type. This function is available only
through the RDS services of FM frequency stations in Europe.
1
Press the PTY button.
“PTY SEARCH“ appears on the display.
FM
PTY
SEARCH
< NEWS >
2
Use the direction (
k
/
j
) buttons to select the desired
program.
You can select from 31 program types (PTY).
3
Press the SELECT button.
The unit starts searching.
o
When the program type that you have selected is found, search-
ing stops and the program type will be displayed.
o
If a matching program type is not found during PTY Search, it
will stop at the frequency set before searching started.
o
If you want to stop searching, press the PTY button.
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