Pioneer SC-LX85 - Manual (Page 42)

NEWS - News
AFFAIRS - Current Affairs
INFO - General Informa-
tion
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’ classi-
cal music
CLASSICS - ‘Serious’
classical music
OTHER M - Music not
fitting above categories
WEATHER - Weather
reports FINANCE - Stock market
reports, commerce, trad-
ing, 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 inter-
ests 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 - Docu-
mentary
Searching for RDS programs
One of the most useful features of RDS is the
ability to search for a particular kind of radio
program. You can search for any of the program
types listed above.
1 SC-LX85 only: Set the remote control
operation selector switch to SOURCE.
2 Press TUNER to select the FM band.
! RDS is only possible in the FM band.
3 Press PTY SEARCH.
PTY SEARCH shows in the display.
4 Press PRESET k/l to select the
program type you want to hear.
5 Press ENTER to search for the program
type.
The system starts searching through all fre-
quencies for a match. When it finds one, the
search stops and the station plays for five
seconds.
6 If you want to keep listening to the
station, press ENTER within the five
seconds.
If you don’t press ENTER, searching resumes.
If NO PTY is displayed it means the tuner
couldn’t find that program type at the time of
the search.
! RDS searches all frequencies. If the program
type could not be found among all the
frequencies, NO PTY is displayed.
Displaying RDS information
Use the DISP button to display the different
types of RDS information available.
! If any noise is picked up while displaying the
RT scroll, some characters may be displayed
incorrectly.
! If you see NO RT DATA in the RT display, it
means no RT data is sent from the broadcast
station.
! If you see NO PS DATA in the PS display, it
means no PS data can be received.
! If you see NO PTY DATA in the PTY display, it
means no PTY data can be received.
% Press DISP for RDS information.
Each press changes the display as follows:
! Radio Text (RT) – Messages sent by the radio
station. For example, a talk radio station may
provide a phone number as RT.
! Program Service Name (PS) – The name of the
radio station.
! Program Type (PTY) – This indicates the kind
of program currently being broadcast.
! Current tuner frequency.
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05 Basic playback
1 Tune to a station you want to
memorize.
See Listening to the radio on page 41 for more
on this.
2 Press T.EDIT (TUNER EDIT).
The display shows PRESET MEMORY, then a
blinking memory class.
3 Press CLASS to select one of the seven
classes, then press PRESET
k/l to select
the station preset you want.
You can also use the number buttons to select a
station preset.
4 Press ENTER.
After pressing ENTER, the preset class and
number stop blinking and the receiver stores
the station.
Listening to station presets
1 SC-LX85 only: Set the remote control
operation selector switch to SOURCE.
2 Press TUNER to select the tuner.
3 Press CLASS to select the class in which
the station is stored.
Press repeatedly to cycle through classes A to
G.
4 Press PRESET k/l to select the
station preset you want.
! You can also use the number buttons on the
remote control to recall the station preset.
Naming station presets
For easier identification, you can name your
station presets.
1 Choose the station preset you want to
name.
See Listening to station presets on page 42 for
how to do this.
2 Press T.EDIT (TUNER EDIT).
The display shows PRESET NAME, then a blink-
ing cursor at the first character position.
3 Input the name you want.
Use i/j to select a character, k/l to set the
position, and ENTER to confirm your selection.
Note
! To erase a station name, simply repeat steps 1
to 3 and input eight spaces instead of a name.
! Once you have named a station preset, you
can press DISP when listening to a station
to switch the display between name and
frequency.
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 broadcast-
ing, 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:
! In addition, there are two other program types,
TEST and NONE. You can’t search for these.