Radio; Listening To Radio; Presetting Stations Manually; Presetting Stations Automatically - Alpine CDE-121E Owner's Manual

Radio

Rotary encoder
SOURCE/
BAND
TUNE/A.ME
 
/MUTE
/ESC

Listening to Radio

1
Press SOURCE/ to select TUNER mode.
2
Press BAND repeatedly until the desired radio band
is displayed.
F1 (FM1) F2 (FM2)
3
Press TUNE/A.ME to select the tuning mode.
DX SEEK (Distance mode)
OFF (Manual mode) DX SEEK
• The initial mode is Distance mode.
Distance mode:
Both strong and weak stations will be automatically tuned in
(Automatic Seek Tuning).
Local mode:
Only strong stations will be automatically tuned in (Automatic
Seek Tuning).
Manual mode:
The frequency is manually tuned in steps (Manual tuning).
4
Press  or  to tune in the desired station.
Holding down  or  will change the frequency
continuously.

Presetting Stations Manually

1
Select the radio band and tune in a desired radio
station you wish to store in the preset memory.
2
Press and hold, for at least 2 seconds, any one of the
preset buttons (1 through 6) into which you wish
to store the station.
The selected station is stored.
The display shows the band, preset number and station
frequency memorized.
• A total of 18 stations can be stored in the preset memory (6 stations
for each band; FM1, FM2 and AM).
•
If you store a station in a preset memory which already has a station,
the current station will be cleared and replaced with the new station.
6
-EN
Preset buttons
(1 through 6)
AM F1 (FM1)
SEEK (Local mode)

Presetting Stations Automatically

1
Press BAND repeatedly until the desired radio band
is displayed.
2
Press and hold TUNE/A.ME for at least 2 seconds.
The frequency on the display continues to change while the
automatic memory is in progress. The tuner will
automatically seek and store 6 strong stations in the
selected band. They will be stored into preset buttons 1 to 6
in order of signal strength.
When the automatic memory has been completed, the tuner
goes to the station stored in preset location No.1.
• If no stations are stored, the tuner will return to the original station
you were listening to before the auto memory procedure began.

Tuning to Preset Stations

1
Press BAND repeatedly until the desired band is
displayed.
2
Press any one of the station preset buttons
(1 through 6) that has your desired radio station in
memory.
The display shows the band, preset number and frequency
of the station selected.

Frequency Search Function

You can search for a radio station by its frequency.
1
Press /ESC in Radio mode to activate frequency
search mode.
2
Turn the Rotary encoder to select the desired
frequency.
3
Press Rotary encoder to receive the selected
frequency.
• Press /MUTE in the search mode to cancel. Or, the search
mode will be canceled if no operation is performed for 10
seconds.