An Introduction To Rds & Eon - Pioneer VSX-D510 Operating Instructions Manual

An Introduction to RDS & EON
Radio Data System, or RDS as it' s usually known, is a
system used by 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. This information shows up as text on the
display, and you can switch between the kind of
information shown. Although you don't get RDS
information from all FM radio stations, you do with
most.
Probably the best feature of RDS is that you can search
automatically by type of programme. So, if you felt like
listening to jazz, you could search for a station that' s
broadcasting a show with the programme type, "JAZZ."
There are around 30 such programme types, including
various genres of music, news, sport, talk shows,
financial information, and so on.
The receiver lets you display three different kinds of RDS
information: Radio Text, Programme Service Name, and
Programme Type.
Radio Text ( ) is messages sent by the radio station.
RT
These can be anything the broadcaster chooses—a talk
radio station might give out it telephone number as RT,
for example.
Programme Service Name (
station.
Programme Type ( ) indicates the kind of programme
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currently being broadcast.
The receiver can search for and display the following
programme types:
News Accounts of facts, events and reportage
Affairs
Current affairs
Info General information
Sport
Any aspect of sports
Educate Educational material
Drama Radio plays or serials
Culture
National or regional culture, theatre, etc.
Science Science and technology
Varied
Usually talk-based material, such as quiz
shows or interviews.
Pop M Pop music
Rock M
Rock music
M.O.R. M "Middle of the road" music
Light M
'Light' classical music
Classics
'Serious' classical music
Other M Other music not fitting any of the above
categories
Weather Weather reports, forecasts and
Meteological information
Finance
Stock market reports, commerce,
trading, etc.
Children
Children' s entertainment
Social A Social affairs
Religion Beliefs and faiths, involving Gods, the
nature of existence, and ethics
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Public expressing their views by phone
Travel Holiday-type travel rather than traffic
announcements
Leisure Leisure interests and hobbies
Jazz Polyphonic, syncopated music
characterised by improvisation
Country Country music
Nation M Popular music in a language other than
English
Oldies Popular music from the '50s
Folk M
Folk music
Document Documentaries
In addition, there is a programme type,
for exceptional emergency announcements. You can't
search for this, but the tuner will switch automatically to
this RDS broadcast signal.
Using the RDS display
To display the different types of
available ( , and
RT PS PTY
page), press (TUNER) on the remote control and
TUN
use the DISPLAY button (also marked 4) to cycle
through the types of
RDS
Each press changes the display as follows:
3 RT 3 3
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MEMO
This unit converts lower case characters transmitted by
broadcast station to upper case characters.
Using the Tuner
, used
ALARM!
information
RDS
as explained on the previous
information.
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Frequency
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27
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