Rds (European Model Only) - Teac cr-h101dab Owner's Manual

The Radio Data System (RDS) is a broadcasting service that allows stations
to send additional information along with the regular radio program signal.
o RDS works on the FM frequency band in Europe only.
1
Tune in to an FM RDS station (page 17).
2
Press the remote control RDS button.
Pressing the RDS button cycles through RDS modes as follows:
Program service (PS)
When you select Program service, "PS" will appear to the right of
"FM" and then the program service name or station's name will be
displayed. If there is no program service data, the frequency will be
displayed.
RDS Program type (PTY)
When you select RDS Program type, "PTY" will appear to the right of
"FM" and then the program type will be displayed.
RDS Radio text (RT)
When you select RDS Radio text, "RT" will appear to the right of "FM"
and then information from the station consisting of up to 64 charac-
ters will be displayed.
RDS Clock time (CT)
Displays time information provided by the station.
PTY search
You can search for stations by program type. This function is available only
through the RDS services of FM frequency stations in Europe.
1
Press the PTY button.
"PTY SEARCH" appears on the display.
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2
Use the direction (k/j) buttons to select the desired
program.
You can select from 31 program types (PTY).
3
Press the SELECT button.
The unit starts searching.
o When the program type that you have selected is found, search-
ing stops and the program type will be displayed.
o If a matching program type is not found during PTY Search, it
will stop at the frequency set before searching started.
o If you want to stop searching, press the PTY button.
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The clock setting of this unit is automatically
adjusted according to the RDS Clock time
(CT) data it receives.
To turn on automatic clock adjustment,
hold down the RDS button for more
than 8 seconds.
o When automatic clock adjustment is
enabled, the unit adjusts its clock in
response to received CT data no matter
which RDS mode is selected.
If you tune in an RDS station that is broad-
casting incorrect CT data, the clock might
be incorrectly adjusted. This could eventu-
ally affect timer operation.
If you do not want the clock of this unit to
be set according to received CT data, turn
off automatic clock adjustment.
To turn off automatic clock adjustment,
hold down the RDS button for more
than 8 seconds.