News Bulletin Function With Pty News Timeout Setting - Kenwood KRC-777R Instruction Manual

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News Bulletin Function
with PTY News Timeout Setting
You can arrange to have news bulletins interrupt your current
listening source, including other radio stations. When the News
Bulletin function is on, the PTY News Timeout setting allows
you to set the interval during which further news interruption
cannot take place. You can adjust the PTY news interruption
period from 10 to 90 minutes for each journey.
Turning News Bulletin Function On/Off:
1
Hold down the MENU button for one second or more.
"MENU" is displayed and the menu mode is turned on.
2 Press the ¢ button repeatedly until the News Bulletin
function appears in the display.
Press the 4 button to search in the other direction.
The function setting is indicated by "NEWS ##MIN" or "NEWS
OFF" in the display, indicating that the function is on or off,
respectively.
NOTE
Depending on the interval chosen, the "##MIN" in the display will
change when the function is turned on.
3
Changing the Function Setting
Press either the FM or AM button.
Each time you press the FM or AM button until the desired
setting is displayed.
Press the FM button to increase the interval, and the AM
button to decrease it.
OFF 00MIN 10MIN
60MIN 70MIN 80MIN
When you select the news interruption timeout interval, the
News function turns on and the NEWS indicator lights up.
When a news bulletin is received, "NEWS" will be displayed and
reception will begin at the preset volume.
NOTE
If you choose the "20MIN" setting, further news bulletins will not
be received for 20 minutes once the first news bulletin is
received.
4
Press the MENU button to end the menu mode.
20MIN 30MIN 40MIN 50MIN
90MIN (MIN= minutes)
NOTE
• This function is only available if the desired station sends PTY-
code for news bulletin or belongs to EON-Network sending PTY-
code for news bulletin.
• If you turn on the news bulletin function in the MW/LW band,
the band is switched automatically to the FM band.
However, the MW/LW band is not returned to when you turn off
the function.
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