Listening To Sirius Radio; Saving Channel Presets - Pioneer VSX-818V Operating Instructions Manual

Other connections
• If after pressing SIRIUS the display shows
Antenna Error, try disconnecting the
antenna and reconnecting.
shows Check Sirius Tuner, check the
connection of the AC adapter and this
receiver to the Sirius Connect tuner.

Listening to SIRIUS Radio

After connecting, you will be able to use this
receiver to select channels and navigate
categories using the on-screen display.
information displayed is as follows:
SIRIUS
Decades
The '50s
Chuck Berry
Johnny B. Good
Chuck Berry
Selecting channels and browsing by genre
From the SIRIUS Channel Guide, you can browse
SIRIUS Radio channels in the order that they
appear, or you can narrow your channel search
by genre.
SIRIUS A
Decades A0
The '50s SR005
Chuck Berry
Johnny B. Good
Chuck Berry
• Press to enter the SIRIUS Channel
Guide, then navigate through the channels
one at time with the
ENTER to listen to the SIRIUS radio broadcast.
• To browse by genre, first press
CATEGORY, use
genre then press ENTER.
• To cancel and exit any time, press RETURN.
Note
1 You can check the strength of reception in Using the SIRIUS Menu on page 62.
2 It's easiest if you have your TV switched on to take advantage of the OSDs. You can, however, use just the front panel display
to do everything if you prefer.
3 Select SR000 (SIRIUS ID) from the on-screen display to check the Radio ID of the SIRIUS Connect tuner.
1
If the display
2
The
Preset class
Signal strength
A
Category
Preset number
A0
Channel number
SR005
Artist name
Song name
Composer name
Channel name
A
SIRIUS CH Guide
UP
000 Sirius ID
001 Top 40 Hits
002 Lite Pop
[ 003 Love Songs ]
004 Easy Listening
005 T h e '5 0s
006 T h e '6 0s
DOWN
ENTER : Exit
buttons, then press
to select a
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Tip
• You can select channels directly by
pressing D.ACCESS (SHIFT+ENTER) then
the three-digit channel number.
• You can press TUNER DISP (SHIFT+1) to
change SIRIUS Radio information in the
front panel display.
• The currently selected channel is
automatically chosen (without pressing
ENTER) after 10 seconds.

Saving channel presets

This receiver can memorize up to 30 channels,
stored in three banks, or classes, (A, B and C)
of 10 channels each.
1 Select the channel you want to
memorize.
See Selecting channels and browsing by genre
above.
2 Press T.EDIT .
The display shows a blinking memory class.
3 Press CLASS (SHIFT+2) to select one of
the three classes then press
the channel preset you want.
You can also use the number buttons to select
a preset.
4 Press ENTER .
After pressing ENTER, the preset class and
number stop blinking and the receiver stores
the SIRIUS channel.
Tip
• You can also press MEMORY during
reception display to save the information of
up to 5 songs. See Using the SIRIUS Menu
below to recall this information.
Listening to channel presets
You will need to have some presets stored to do
this.
10
to select
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