Saving Station Presets; Listening To Station Presets; Naming Preset Stations; An Introduction To Rds - Pioneer HTP-071 Operating Instructions Manual

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Saving station presets

If you often listen to a particular radio station, it's convenient
to have the receiver store the frequency for easy recall
whenever you want to listen to that station. This saves the
effort of manually tuning in each time. This unit can
memorize up to 30 stations.
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1 Tune to a station you want to memorize.
See Listening to the radio on page 18 for more on this.
2 Press TUNER EDIT.
The display shows PRESET, then a blinking MEM and station
preset.
3 Press PRESET / to select the station preset you
want.
You can also use the number buttons.
4 Press ENTER.
The preset number stop blinking and the receiver stores the
station.
Note
• If the receiver is left disconnected from the AC power
outlet for over a month, the station memories will be lost
and will have to be reprogrammed.
• Stations are stored in stereo. When the station is stored
in the FM MONO mode, it shows as ST when recalled.

Listening to station presets

You will need to have some presets stored to do this. See
Saving station presets above if you haven't done this already.
 Press PRESET / to select the station preset you
want.
• You can also use the number buttons on the remote
control to recall the station preset.
TUNER EDIT MASTER
TOOLS VOLUME
MENU

Naming preset stations

For easier identification, you can name all of your preset
ENTER
stations.
1 Choose the station preset you want to name.
BAND
RETURN See Listening to station presets above for how to do this.
MUTE
2 Press TUNER EDIT twice.
The cursor at the first character position is blinking on the
TRE
display.
3 Input the name you want.
DVD VCR
Choose a name up to eight characters long.
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• Use PRESET / to select character position.
• Use TUNE / to select characters.
• The name is stored when ENTER is pressed.
Tip
• To erase a station name, follow steps 1 and 2, and press
ENTER while the display is blank. Press TUNER EDIT
while the display is blank, to keep the previous name.
• Once you have named a station preset, Press DISP to
show the name. When you want to return to the frequency
display, press DISP several times to show the frequency.

An introduction to RDS

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 FINANCE – Stock market
reports, commerce, trading,
AFFAIRS – Current Affairs
etc.
INFO – General Information
CHILDREN – Programs for
SPORT – Sport
children
EDUCATE – Educational
SOCIAL – Social affairs
DRAMA – Radio plays, etc.
RELIGION – Programs
CULTURE – National or
concerning religion
regional culture, theater, etc.
PHONE IN – Public expressing
SCIENCE – Science and
their views by phone
technology
TRAVEL – Holiday-type travel
VARIED – Usually talk-based
rather than traffic
material, such as quiz shows
announcements
or interviews.
LEISURE – Leisure interests
POP M – Pop music
and hobbies
ROCK M – Rock music
JAZZ – Jazz
EASY M – Easy listening
COUNTRY – Country music
LIGHT M – 'Light' classical
NATION M – Popular music in
music
a language other than English
CLASSICS – 'Serious' classical
OLDIES – Popular music from
music
the '50s and '60s
OTHER M – Music not fitting
FOLK M – Folk music
above categories
DOCUMENT – Documentary
WEATHER – Weather reports
Note
• 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.
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