Arcam Alpha 10 - Manual (Page 5)

Operating the tuner
TO SELECT A SERVICE
Turn the rotor one click at a time to scroll through the available
services. Press SELECT within a couple of seconds, to select the
required service. If»" is shown in the top right hand comer of the
display when the service is selected this indicates that a secondary
service is also available. Moving the rotor one more click will show
this secondary service. If you wish to listen to this service press
SELECT again.[Want more info ? See technical notes 2 & 3 on page
6 ]
TO PROGRAMME A PRESET
First select the required service (see above). Press STORE/SEARCH
followed by the required preset button, within a couple of seconds.
'Preset stored' will be displayed and the led (light emitting diode)
above the preset will light. Note: It is only possible to set a primary
service to a preset and not any secondary ones attached to it.
Secondary services are indicated by < < in the top right hand
corner of the display.
TO SELECT A PRESET
First store the required service as described above and then press
the required preset button. A total of 7 presets are available.
TO CHANGE THE DISPLAY MODE
The bottom line of the display can be set to one of 4 modes;
Programme type (brief label), dynamic label (scrolling text), data rate
(shows service data rate and steneo/mono mode) and signal quality (a
bar graph).
Press DISPLAY MODE to cycle through the modes. [Want more
info ? See technical notes 2 & 3 on page 6]
MENU BUTTON
The MENU button can be used to access the compression menu
and service sort menu.
COMPRESSION MENU;
The first press of the MENU button will bring you to this menu.
Dynamic range compression (DRC) of the audio may be applied by
the receiver if the broadcaster has made it available for that service.
The amount is adjustable between 'off and 1 to 5, 5 being the
maximum amount
The effect of DRC is to flatten out the sound by making quiet parts
louder and loud parts quieter This can be useful if listening to music
in a noisy domestic environment or late at night. To set the
compression level, turn the rotor to set the level and press SELECT
The tuner will revert to the service select menu if no further
buttons are pressed after a few seconds. Once the tuner has
returned to the normal menu, the compression will be indicated in
the top right corner of the display, by saying CI-C5.This acts as a
reminder that compression has been switched on and also that it is
available for the current service. Note that this degree of
compression will be applied to all services where the broadcaster
has transmitted compression data. It is not possible to store different
compression levels for different stations.
SERVICE SORT MENU
The second press of the MENU button will bring you to this menu.
This can be used to change the order in which services are stored. Set
to 'sort by name' ie Radio I, Radio 2 etc or'sort by programme type'
i.e. Current Affairs, Drama etc , then press SELECT to change the
setting. Once this is done the tuner will revert to the normal menu if
no more buttons are pressed after a few seconds. Alternatively press
MENU again to immediately return to the normal menu.