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Using the tuner, An introduction to RDS
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English Deutsch Français Italiano Nederlands Español Using the tuner 08 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 broadcasting, 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:1 News - News Finance - Stock market Affairs - Current Affairs reports, commerce, Info - General Information trading, etc. Sport - Sport Children - Programs for Educate - Educational children Drama - Radio plays, etc. Social - Social affairs Culture - National or Religion - Programs regional culture, theater, concerning religion etc. Phone In - Public Science - Science and expressing their views by technology phone Varied - Usually talk- Travel - Holiday-type travel based material, such as rather than traffic quiz shows or interviews. announcements Pop M - Pop music Leisure - Leisure interests Rock M - Rock music and hobbies Easy M - Easy listening Jazz - Jazz Light M - 'Light' classical Country - Country music music Nation M - Popular music Classics - 'Serious' in a language other than classical music English Other M - Music not fitting Oldies - Popular music above categories from the '50s and '60s Weather - Weather Folk M - Folk music reports Document - Documentary Displaying RDS information Use the DISP button to display the different types of RDS information available.2 • 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 (FREQ) Searching for RDS programs You can search for a program type listed above. 1 Press the FM button to select the FM band.3 2 Press PTY SEARCH. SEARCH shows in the display. 3 Use the MULTI JOG dial to select the program type you want to hear. 4 Press ENTER to search for the program type. The system starts searching through the station presets for a match. When it finds one, the search stops and the station plays for five seconds. Note 1 In addition, there are three other program types, TEST, Alarm!, and None. Alarm! and TEST are used for emergency announcements. You can't search for these, but the tuner will switch automatically to this RDS broadcast signal. None appears when a program type cannot be found. 2 • If any noise is picked up while displaying the RT scroll, some characters may be displayed incorrectly. • If you see NO RADIO TEXT DATA in the RT display, it means no RT data is sent from the broadcast station. The display will automatically switch to the PS data display (if no PS data, the frequency is displayed). • In the PTY display, NO DATA may be shown. In this case, the PS display is shown after a few seconds. 3 RDS is only possible in the FM band. 47 En