Renkforce RF-ARA-300 Operating Instructions Manual page 19

Programme Type (PTY)
This code gives the receiver information about the type of the transmitted programme (e.g. sports, classic, news etc.).
The listener can select his favourite programme purposefully.
A national disaster alarm can also be transmitted this way. However, not all radio stations offer the PTY service.
Therefore, when you leave the transmission area, the RDS system favourably automatically switches to a similar
station that can be better received. However, it only switches when it finds a better station with the same programme.
The RDS system cannot eliminate short signal attenuations associated with the reception since this would mean
that the car radio permanently switches back and forth. That would disturb the listener even more than short-term
reception problems.
Another advantage of the RDS system is that the station name is displayed. The RDS station name is shown on the
display of the car radio.
Button functions
BND/ID3 button (11)
Band range switching:
• Briefly push this button to select the band range of the radio module.
• There are 3 FM ranges:
FM1 > FM2 > FM3
Each of the three band ranges enables to save 6 stations with station buttons 1-6 (12-17).
Buttons (1) and
• These buttons enable to change the reception frequency to adjust stations in radio mode.
• Briefly pressing a button starts the automatic station search.
• The search only stops at the next found station with a strong signal.
• Long pressing of the button activates the manual station search.
• MANUAL appears on the display.
• This mode enables stepwise frequency adjustment with each press of the button.
When no buttons are pressed for a longer time, the device switches to the automatic station search. AUTO
will appear briefly on the display.
Station buttons 1-6 (12-17)
• If you briefly press these buttons, you can select a preset station.
• If you want to save a station you are currently listening to, just press the desired button for about three seconds.
Each of the three FM ranges (FM1-3) has six station buttons. Thus, you can assign up to 18 station buttons.
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