User manual PIONEER M-F10

[. . . ] The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated "dangerous voltage" within the product's enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons. To ensure continued safety, do not remove any covers or attempt to gain access to the inside of the product. These Operating Instructions describe the operating procedures of both the XC-F10 Stereo CD Tuner, MF10 Stereo Power Amplifier and the CT-F10 Stereo Cassette Deck. Please read through these operating instructions so you will know how to operate your model properly. [. . . ] If you've set up more than a couple of station memories, you'll probably want to give them names that are a little more memorable than "FM 108. Names can be up to 9 characters long and can contain letters (upper and lower case), numbers, spaces and other symbols. Giving a station memory a name Numbers (0-9) & punctuation/symbols Use the 4 and ¢ buttons to select a character from the current list: · The cursor moves to the next character position ready for you to input another character. You can move the cursor left and right using the 1 and ¡ buttons. Radio Data System, or RDS as it's usually known, is a system used by FM radio stations to provide listeners with various information--the name of the station and the kind of show they're broadcasting, for example. This information shows up as text on the display, and you can switch between the kind of information shown. Although you don't get RDS information from all FM radio stations, you do with most. Probably the most useful feature of RDS is that you can search automatically by type of program. So, if you felt like listening to jazz, you could have the MT search for a station that's broadcasting a show with the program type, "JAZZ. " There are around 30 such program types, including various genres of music, news, sport, talk shows, financial information, and so on. This unit let's you display three different kinds of RDS information: Radio Text, Program Service Name, and Program Type. It can be anything the broadcaster chooses--a talk radio station might give out its telephone number as RT, for example. M Light M Classics Jazz Country Nation M Oldies Folk M Other M News Affairs Info Sport Educate Drama Culture Science Varied Weather Finance Children Social A Religion Phone in Travel Leisure Document Pop music Rock music "Middle-of-the-road" music `Light' classical music `Serious' classical music Jazz music Country music Popular music in a language other than English Popular music from the '50s Folk music Other music not fitting any of the above categories News Current affairs General information Sports Educational material Radio drama Arts and culture Science and technology Usually talk-based material, such as quiz shows or interviews. Weather reports Finance and business Children's entertainment Social affairs Religious programming Phone in talk show Holiday-type travel rather than traffic announcements, etc. M Light M Classics Jazz Country Nation M Oldies Folk M Other M News Affairs Info Sport Educate Drama Culture Science Varied Weather Finance Children Social A Religion Phone in Travel Leisure Document Musique pop Musique rock Musique légère Musique classique légère Musique classique sérieuse Musique de jazz Musique country Musique populaire dans une autre langue que l'anglais Musique populaire des années 50 Musique folklorique Autre type de musique ne rentrant pas dans les catégories précédentes Informations Actualités Informations d'ordre général Sports Emission éducative Dramatique radio Art et culture Emission scientifique et technologique Jeux radiophoniques ou interviews Bulletins météo Finances et affaires Divertissement pour les enfants Affaires sociales Programme religieux Débats par téléphone Informations sur le voyage mais pas informations routières, etc; Loisirs et hobby Documentaires , used for exceptional emergency announcements. You can't search for this, but the tuner will switch automatically to that station if it picks up this RDS signal. You can search for a station among your presets that is broadcasting a particular program type from the list on page 42. Press SYSTEM DISP repeatedly to switch between the options, then press SET. If the tuner finds a matching program type, the tuner plays 5 seconds of the station. ) If you don't press SYSTEM DISP during the 5 seconds, the tuner resumes the search. You can choose to display various kinds of information when listening to the tuner. Remember that RDS information is only available when listening to FM stations. [. . . ] Remember: switch between menu options using 4 and ¢; select the option by pressing SET. If you selected ATT ON, the level of the input signal is reduced to prevent distortion. You can adjust the brightness of the display to suit the lighting conditions of the room. For example, in a brightly lit room you'd probably want the display brighter than in a room with low lighting. [. . . ]