Listening To The Radio - Bose Lifestyle 20 Owner's Manual

Operating Your Lifestyle

Listening to the radio

Turning the system on and choosing the radio
Press AM/FM (on the remote) or SOURCE SELECT (on the music center) to turn your
system on to the most recently selected AM or FM station.
Note: If the system is on and the radio is already selected, the AM/FM key switches
between AM and FM bands.
Tuning
Seeking the strongest stations
• Press and hold SKIP
stop at the next strong signal.
• To stop seeking sooner, briefly press SKIP or
• You can seek again without holding down the SKIP key. Right after the first seek opera-
tion stops, briefly press the SKIP
Note: If you hold a SKIP key down, the radio continues to seek without stopping at any
station.
Switching between AM and FM
Press AM/FM to switch from one band to the other.
Manual tuning
To tune to a distant or weak station that the radio cannot seek, use TUNE
music center.
Setting a station preset
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Your Lifestyle music center can store up to 25 AM and 25 FM stations.
Note: To allow for different station preferences, you can reserve a group of preset numbers
for each household member. Any station can be assigned to more than one preset number.
Or, you can reserve different number groups for different types of stations. For easy refer-
ence, you may want to keep a written record of your presets.
1. Lift the music center door.
2. Select a radio station you want to store as a preset, either by tuning manually or by
pressing and holding a SKIP key.
3. Press the STORE key. The lowest available preset number flashes for three seconds,
then is set and displayed.
4. If you prefer a different preset number, while the number is flashing, press either SKIP
key to select another available preset number. The preset number is displayed.
Note: You cannot store a station in an already-occupied preset location without erasing
that preset station first (see "Erasing a preset station" below). If you attempt to store more
than 25 AM or 25 FM stations, the preset display flashes "– –."
Selecting a preset station
Once you have set station presets, press SKIP
preset station. See Figure 22 for a sample display of a preset FM station.
Erasing a preset station
1. Lift the music center door.
2. Select the preset station you want to erase.
3. Press the ERASE key.
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(forward) or (reverse) to start seeking. Release the key to
STOP.
or key.
or
or on the
to select the next or the previous
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Figure 22
FM display showing a preset
station
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