Alpine 9825 Owners Manual - Page 16

Radio Operation SOURCE/ POWER TUNE/A.ME BAND/TEL. Rotary encoder g f SEARCH F/SETUP Preset buttons (1 through 6) Changing the Radio Frequencies for each Country For customers not living in North America, change the radio frequencies as follows. 1 Press and hold the F/SETUP button for at least 3 seconds. 2 Select the "AREA" mode by pressing the g or f button. 3 Choose either AREA 1 or AREA 2 by pressing the BAND/TEL. button. AREA 1: Radio frequencies for North America AREA 2: Other Radio frequencies NOTE The stored radio stations will be cleared every time you change the setting. Manual Tuning 1 Press the SOURCE/POWER button until a radio frequency appears in the display. 2 Press the BAND/TEL. button repeatedly until the desired radio band is displayed. Each press changes the band: → FM1 → FM2 → AM 4 Press the g or f button to move downward or upward one step respectively until the desired station frequency is displayed. NOTE The ST indicator appears on the display when a Stereo FM station is tuned in. Automatic Seek Tuning 1 Press the BAND/TEL. button repeatedly until the desired radio band is displayed. 2 Press the TUNE/A.ME button to select the tuning mode. 3 Press the g or f button to automatically seek for a station downward or upward respectively. The unit will stop at the next station it finds. Press the same button again to seek the next station. Manual Storing of Station Presets 1 Select the radio band and tune in a desired radio station you wish to store in the preset memory. 2 Press and hold any one of the Preset buttons (1 through 6) that you want to store the station on for at least 2 seconds. The selected station is stored. The display shows the band, preset No. and station frequency memorized. 3 Repeat the procedure to store up to 5 other stations onto the same band. To use this procedure for other bands, simply select the band desired and repeat the procedure. A total of 18 stations can be stored in the preset memory (6 stations for each band; FM1, FM2 and AM). NOTE If you store a station in a preset memory which already has a station, the current station will be cleared and replaced with the new station. 3 Press the TUNE/A.ME button to select the tuning mode. → DX SEEK → DX SEEK → DX SEEK (Distance mode) (Local mode) (Manual mode) (Only the portions underlined above are displayed.) Distance mode: Both strong and week stations will be automatically tuned in (Automatic seek tuning). Local mode: Only strong stations will be automatically tuned in (Automatic seek tuning). Manual mode: The frequency is manually tuned in steps (Manual tuning). 14-EN