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Advanced Tuner Operations
Monitoring traffic, news, or information
programmes (EON)
Enhanced Other Networks (EON) allows the tuner to
automatically switch to a station broadcasting traffic,
news, or information. After the programme ends, the
tuner switches back to the station you were listening
to. To use this function, be sure to store the stations
beforehand.
To monitor traffic programmes
1 Tune to a preset FM RDS station so that the RDS
TP, or RDS TP EON indicators light in the
display.
2 Press TA so that “TA” appears in the display.
Each time you press TA, the display changes as
follows:
TA (Traffic Announcement) , OFF
When the tuner automatically tunes in a traffic
programme, the TA indicator flashes. If you do not
want to listen to the entire programme, press TA to
switch back to the original station.
To monitor news and/or information programmes
1 Tune to a preset FM RDS station so that the RDS
TP or RDS TP EON indicators light in the display.
2 Press NEWS/INFO so that either “NEWS”,
“INFO”, or “NEWS/INFO” appear in the display.
Each time you press NEWS/INFO, the display
changes as follows:
When the tuner automatically tunes in a news or
information programme, the respective indicator
flashes. If you do not want to listen to the entire
programme, press NEWS/INFO to switch back to
the original station.
/ NEWS / INFO / NEWS/INFO / OFF
(continued)
To stop monitoring the programme
Press TA or NEWS/INFO while the tuner is in the
respective EON standby mode and the indicator goes
off.
Notes
• If you tune in an AM (MW/LW) station or an FM station
which does not provide the RDS service, the selected
indicator (TA, NEWS, INFO, or NEWS/INFO) goes off
and the tuner does not standby for EON stations.
• “Weak Signal” appears when the selected station has a
weak signal. “Return” appears when the tuner is trying to
retune a station with a weak signal.
• Turn off the EON feature when you want to record a
programme without interruptions, especially when you
want to do timer recording.
• “No EON” appears in the display if you select an EON
programme before tuning to an RDS station.
• If you make EON CONTROL connections to a compatible
Sony amplifier, the amplifier automatically switches the
function mode to TUNER whenever the tuner receives a
programme you are monitoring.
Locating traffic programmes (TA Search)
You can have the tuner locate stations currently
broadcasting traffic programme from among the RDS
stations stored in the tuner's preset memory.
1 Press MENU.
2 Turn TUNING/SELECT until “Traffic” appears in
the display and press ENTER.
The unit enters search mode (“Search” and
“Traffic” appear alternately in the display).
When the tuner finds a traffic announcement, it
stops searching. The tuner receives each station for
8 seconds.
3 Press ENTER when the tuner receives the station
you want to listen to that programme.
Locating a station by programme type
(PTY)
You can locate a station you want by selecting a
programme type. The tuner tunes in the type of
programmes currently being broadcast from the RDS
stations stored in the tuner's preset memory.
1 Press PTY.