Listening to the radio
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Using RDS
Radio Data System (RDS) is a system used by
most FM
r
adio stations to
pr
ovide listene
r
s with
va
r
ious kinds of info
r
mation — the name of the
station and the kind of show they’
r
e
b
r
oadcasting, fo
r
exam
p
le.
One featu
r
e of RDS is that you can sea
r
ch by
ty
p
e of
pr
og
r
am. Fo
r
exam
p
le, you can sea
r
ch
fo
r
a station that’s b
r
oadcasting a show with
the
pr
og
r
am ty
p
e,
Jazz
.
You can sea
r
ch the following
pr
og
r
am ty
p
es:
1
Displaying RDS information
Use
DISPLAY
to dis
p
lay the diffe
r
ent ty
p
es of
RDS info
r
mation available.
2
•
Press for RDS information.
Each
pr
ess changes the dis
p
lay as follows:
• Radio Text (
RT
) – Messages sent by the
r
adio station. Fo
r
exam
p
le, a talk
r
adio
station may
pr
ovide a
p
hone numbe
r
as RT.
• P
r
og
r
am Se
r
vice Name (
PS
) – The name of
the
r
adio station.
• P
r
og
r
am Ty
p
e (
PTY
) – This indicates the
kind of
pr
og
r
am cu
rr
ently being b
r
oadcast.
•
PTY SEARCH
– PTY sea
r
ch (see below)
• Cu
rr
ent tune
r
f
r
equency
Searching for RDS programs
You can sea
r
ch fo
r
a
pr
og
r
am ty
p
e listed above.
1
Press for the FM band.
3
2
Press repeatedly until ‘PTY
SEARCH’ appears in the display.
3
Select the program type you want
to hear.
4
Start the search.
The system sea
r
ches the station
pr
esets fo
r
a
match. If it finds one, sea
r
ching sto
p
s fo
r
five sec.
5
If you want to keep listening to the
station, press ENTER within the five seconds.
If you don’t
pr
ess
ENTER
, sea
r
ching
r
esumes.
News
– News
Affairs
– Cu
rr
ent Affai
r
s
Info
– Gene
r
al Info
r
mation
Sport
– S
p
o
r
t
Educate
– Educational
Drama
– Radio
p
lays, etc.
Culture
– National o
r
r
egional cultu
r
e, theate
r
,
etc.
Science
– Science and
technology
Varied
– Usually talk-
based mate
r
ial, such as
quiz shows o
r
inte
r
views.
Pop M
– Po
p
music
Rock M
– Rock music
Easy M
– Easy listening
Light M
– ‘Light’ classical
music
Classics
– ‘Se
r
ious’
classical music
Other M
– Music not fitting
above catego
r
ies
Weather
– Weathe
r
r
e
p
o
r
ts and fo
r
ecasts,
meteo
r
ological info
r
mation
Finance
– Stock ma
r
ket
r
e
p
o
r
ts, comme
r
ce,
t
r
ading, etc.
Children
– P
r
og
r
ams fo
r
child
r
en
Social
– Social affai
r
s
Religion
– P
r
og
r
ams
conce
r
ning
r
eligion
Phone In
– Public
ex
pr
essing thei
r
views by
p
hone
Travel
– Holiday-ty
p
e t
r
avel
info
r
mation as o
pp
osed to
t
r
affic announcements.
Leisure
– Leisu
r
e inte
r
ests
and hobbies
Jazz
– Jazz
Country
– Count
r
y music
Nation M
– Po
p
ula
r
music
in a language othe
r
than
English
Oldies
– Po
p
ula
r
music
f
r
om the ’50s and ’60s
Folk M
– Folk music
Document
– Documenta
r
y
Note
1 In addition, the
r
e a
r
e th
r
ee othe
r
pr
og
r
am ty
p
es,
TEST
,
ALARM!
, and
None
,
ALARM!
and
TEST
a
r
e used fo
r
eme
r
gency
announcements.
None
a
pp
ea
r
s when a
pr
og
r
am ty
p
e cannot be found.
2 • If any noise is
p
icked u
p
while dis
p
laying the RT sc
r
oll, some cha
r
acte
r
s may be dis
p
layed inco
rr
ectly.
• If you see
No Radio Text Data
in the RT dis
p
lay, it means no RT data is sent f
r
om the b
r
oadcast station. The dis
p
lay will
automatically switch to the PS data dis
p
lay (if no PS data, the f
r
equency is dis
p
layed).
• In the PTY dis
p
lay,
NO DATA
o
r
None
may be shown. In this case, the PS dis
p
lay is shown afte
r
a few seconds.
3 RDS is only
p
ossible in the FM band.
DISPLAY
FM/AM
TUNER
DISPLAY
ENTER
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