Denon AVR-1610 Owner's Manual page 41

RDS (Radio Data System)
RDS (works only on the FM band) is a broadcasting service which
allows a station to send additional information along with the regular
radio program signal.
The following three types of RDS information can be received with
this unit:
n Program Type (PTY)
PTY identifi es the type of RDS program.
The program types and their displays are as follows:
NEWS News WEATHER
AFFAIRS Current Affairs FINANCE
INFO Information
CHILDREN
SPORT Sports
SOCIAL
Education
EDUCATE
RELIGION
Drama
DRAMA
PHONE IN
CULTURE Culture
TRAVEL
SCIENCE Science
LEISURE
VARIED Varied
JAZZ
POP M Pop Music
COUNTRY
ROCK M Rock Music
NATION M
Easy Listening
EASY M
Music OLDIES
LIGHT M Light Classical FOLK M
CLASSICS Serious Classical DOCUMENT Documentary
OTHER M Other Music
n Traffi c Program (TP)
TP identifi es programs that carry traffi c announcements.
This allows you to easily fi nd out the latest traffi c conditions in your
area before leaving home.
n
Radio Text (RT)
RT allows RDS stations to send text messages that appear on the
display.
NOTE
The operations described below using will not function in areas in
which there are no RDS broadcasts.
RDS Search
Use this function to automatically tune to FM stations that provide the
RDS service.
1
Set to "TUNER/AMP".
2
Press to select "TUNER".
Weather
3
Finance Press to select "RDS SEARCH".
Children's
programmes
4
Press .
Social Affairs
Religion
The search for RDS stations begins
Phone In
automatically.
Travel
b If no RDS stations are found with the
Leisure
above operation, all the reception bands are
Jazz Music
searched.
Country Music
b When a broadcast station is found, that
National Music
station's name appears on the display.
Oldies Music
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Folk Music
To continue searching, repeat steps
2 to 3.
b If no RDS station is found when all the frequencies have been
searched, "NO RDS" is displayed.
PTY Search
Use this function to fi nd RDS stations broadcasting a designated
program type (PTY).
For a description of each program type, refer to "Program Type (PTY)".
1
Set to "TUNER/AMP".
2
Press to select "TUNER".
3
Press to select "PTY SEARCH".
4
ui
Watching the display, press
call out the desired program type.
5
Press .
PTY search begins automatically.
b If there is no station broadcasting the
designated program type with the above
operation, all the reception bands are
searched.
b The station name is displayed on the display
after searching stops.
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To continue searching, repeat steps 2 to 4.
b If no station broadcasting the designated program type is found
when all the frequencies have been searched, "NO PROGRAMME"
is displayed.
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