Naming Station Presets; Listening To Station Presets; An Introduction To Rds; Searching For Rds Programs - Pioneer VSX-AX4ASi-S Operating Instructions Manual

Using the tuner

Naming station presets

For easier identification, you can name your station
presets.
1 Choose the station preset you want to name.
See Listening to station presets below for how to do this.
2 Press T.EDIT (TUNER EDIT).
The display shows STATION NAME, then a blinking
cursor at the first character position.
3 Input the name you want.
Choose from the following characters for a name up to
four characters long.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
∗
!"#$%&'() +,–./:;<=>?@[ \ ]^_{|} ˜ [space]
• Use the ST
buttons (remote) to select
characters.
• Press ENTER to confirm a character. If no character
is input, a space is input.
• The name is stored when ENTER is pressed after
choosing the fourth character.
Tip
• To erase a station name, simply repeat steps 1-3 and
input four spaces instead of a name.
• Once you have named a station preset, you can press
DISP when listening to a station to switch the display
between name and frequency.

Listening to station presets

You will need to have some presets stored to do this. See
Saving station presets above if you haven't done this
already.
1 Press TUNER to select the tuner.
2 Press CLASS to select the class in which the station
is stored.
Press repeatedly to cycle through classes A, B and C.
3 Press ST to select the station preset you want.
• You can also use the number buttons on the remote
control to recall the station preset.
Note
1 In addition, there are three other program types, ALARM, NO DATA and NO TYPE. ALARM is used for emergency announcements. You can't search
for these, but the tuner will switch automatically to this RDS broadcast signal. NO DATA and NO TYPE appears when a program type cannot be found.
2 RDS is only possible in the FM band.

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:
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
based material, such as travel rather than traffic
quiz shows or interviews. announcements
POP M – Pop music LEISURE – Leisure
ROCK M – Rock music
interests and hobbies
EASY M – Easy listening JAZZ – Jazz
LIGHT M – 'Light' classical COUNTRY – Country music
music NATION M – Popular
CLASSICS – 'Serious'
music in a language other
classical music than English
OTHER M – Music not OLDIES – Popular music
fitting above categories from the '50s and '60s
WEATHER – Weather FOLK M – Folk music
DOCUMENT – Documentary
reports

Searching for RDS programs

One of the most useful features of RDS is the ability to
search for a particular kind of radio program. You can
search for any of the program types listed on the previous
page.
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TV CONTROL
1 Press the BAND button to select the FM band.
2 Press the PTY SEARCH button.
SEARCH shows in the display.
3 Press ST to select the program type you
want to hear.
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