Listening To Station Presets; Naming Preset Stations; An Introduction To Rds (For Europe); Searching For Rds Programs - Onkyo TX-SR373 Operating Instructions Manual

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Listening to station presets

You will need to have some presets stored to do this. See
Saving station presets on page 22 if you haven't done this
already.
...
PRESET +/–
Press to select the station preset you
want.

Naming preset stations

For easier identification, you can name all of your preset
stations.
1
Choose the station preset you want to name.
See Listening to station presets above
2
EDIT
Press twice.
The cursor at the first character position is blinking on
the display.
3
Input the name you want.
Choose a name up to eight characters long.
PRESET +/–
Use to select character position.
•
TUNING +/–
• Use to select characters.
ENTER
• The name is stored when
Tip
• To erase a station name, follow steps 1 and 2, and press
ENTER
while the display is blank. Press
display is blank, to keep the previous name.
• Once you have named a station preset, press
to show the name. When you want to return to the
DISPLAY
frequency display, press several times to show
the frequency.

An introduction to RDS (For Europe)

Radio Data System (RDS) is a system used by most 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.
One feature of RDS is that you can search by type of
program. For example, you can search for a station that's
broadcasting a show with the program type, JAZZ.
You can search the following program types:
NEWS – News
AFFAIRS – Current Affairs
INFO – General Information
for how to do this.
SPORT – Sport
EDUCATE – Educational
DRAMA – Radio plays, etc.
CULTURE – National or
regional culture, theater, etc.
SCIENCE – Science and
technology
VARIED – Usually talk-based
material, such as quiz shows
or interviews.
is pressed.
POP M – Pop music
ROCK M – Rock music
EASY M – Easy listening
LIGHT M – 'Light' classical
EDIT
while the music
CLASSICS – 'Serious'
classical music
DISPLAY
OTHER M – Music not fitting
above categories
WEATHER – Weather reports
• In addition, there are three other program types, ALARM,
ALARMTST, and NO TYPE. ALARM and ALARMTST
are used for emergency announcements. NO TYPE
appears when a program type cannot be found.
FINANCE – Stock market
reports, commerce, trading,
etc.
CHILDREN – Programs for
children

Searching for RDS programs

SOCIAL – Social affairs
You can search for a program type listed above.
RELIGION – Programs
concerning religion
1
PHONE IN – Public
expressing their views by
phone 2
TRAVEL – Holiday-type travel
rather than traffic
announcements 3
LEISURE – Leisure interests
and hobbies
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JAZZ – Jazz
COUNTRY – Country music
NATION M – Popular music in
a language other than English
OLDIES – Popular music from
the '50s and '60s
FOLK M – Folk music
DOCUMENT – Documentary
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Basic playback
Note
AUDIO SEL
LATE NIGHT LATE NIGHT
TUNING + TUNING + TUNING +
DISPLAY DISPLAY DISPLAY DISPLAY TUNING
PRESET PRESET - PRESET - PRESET -
TUNING - TUNING - TUNING - TUNING -
PTY PTY PTY PTY
TOP MENU TOP MENU
TUNER TUNER
TUNER BAND
Press then press to select the FM band.
• RDS is only possible in the FM band.
Press PTY.
SEARCH shows in the display.
PRESET +/–
Press to select the program type you
want to hear.
ENTER
Press to search for the program type.
The system starts searching through the station presets
for a match, stopping when it was found one. Repeat to
search for other stations.
If NO PTY is displayed it means the tuner couldn't find
that program type at the time of the search.
RDS searches station presets only. If no stations have
been preset, or if the program type could not be found
among the station presets NO PTY is displayed.
FINISH means the search is complete.
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TREBLE
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EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT SLEEP SLEEP
PRESET PRESET + PRESET + PRESET +
BAND BAND BAND BAND