Searching For An Rds Station By Pty Information; Using News Program Interruption; Pty List; Setting The Fm Tuning Step - Pioneer AVH-X7500BT Owner's Manual

Tuner

Searching for an RDS station by PTY information

You can search for general types of broadcasting programs, such as those listed in the
following section. Refer to "PTY list" on this page.
1. Touch the search key.
2. Touch or to select a program type.
There are four program types:
News&Info – Popular – Classics – Others
3. Touch Start to begin the search.
The unit searches for a station broadcasting that type of program. When a station is
found, its program service name is displayed.
PTY (program type) information is listed in the following section. Refer to "PTY list" on
this page.
• To cancel the search, touch Cancel.
• The program of some stations may differ from that indicated by the transmitted PTY.
• If no station is broadcasting the type of program you searched for, Not Found is
displayed for about two seconds and then the tuner returns to the original station.

Using news program interruption

When a news program is broadcast from a PTY code news station, the unit can switch
from any station to the news broadcast station. When the news program ends,
reception of the previous program resumes.

PTY list

News&Info News (News), Affairs (Current affairs), Info (Information), Sport (Sports),
(news and Weather (Weather), Finance (Finance)
information)
Popular Pop Mus (Popular music), Rock Mus (Rock music), Easy Mus (Easy
(popular) listening), Oth Mus (Other music), Jazz (Jazz), Country (Country music), Nat
Mus (National music), Oldies (Oldies music), Folk Mus (Folk music)
Classics L.Class (Light classical), Classic (Classical)
(classics)
Others (others) Educate (Education), Drama (Drama), Culture (Culture), Science (Science),
Varied (Varied), Children (Children's), Social (Social affairs), Religion
(Religion), Phone In (Phone in), Touring (Travel), Leisure (Leisure),
Document (Documentaries)

Setting the FM tuning step

The tuning step remains at 50 kHz during manual tuning.
1. Press the home button to switch to the home display.
2. Touch the system key to open the system menu.
3. Touch FM Step on the system menu to select the FM tuning step.
Touching FM Step will switch the FM tuning step between 50 kHz and 100 kHz. The
selected FM tuning step will appear.

RDS setting

(Only available on FM stations)

Limiting stations to regional programming

When AF is used, the regional function limits the selection of stations to those
broadcasting regional programs.
1. Press the home button to switch to the home display.
2. Touch the system key to open the system menu.
3. Touch RDS Setup on the system menu.
4. Touch Regional on the menu to turn the regional function on.
• To turn the regional function off, touch Regional again.

Selecting alternative frequencies

When the tuner cannot get a good reception, the unit automatically searches for a
different station in the same network.
1. Press the home button to switch to the home display.
2. Touch the system key to open the system menu.
3. Touch RDS Setup on the system menu.
4. Touch Alternative FREQ to turn AF on.
• To turn AF off, touch Alternative FREQ again.
Notes
• Sound may be temporarily interrupted by another program during an AF frequency search.
• The AF feature can be set for FM1, FM2, and FM3.
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