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Advanced Tuner Operations
Monitoring traffic, news, or
information programmes
(EON)
(ST-SE570 only)
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 EON TA so that “TA” appears in
the display.
Each time you press EON TA, the display
changes as follows:
TA (Traffic Announcement) y 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 EON 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 EON NEWS/INFO so that either
“NEWS”, “INFO”, or “NEWS/INFO”
appear in the display.
Each time you press EON NEWS/INFO, the
display changes cyclically as follows:
NEWS t INFO t NEWS/INFO t OFF
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
EON NEWS/INFO to switch back to the
original station.
You can
Locate each station by name
(e.g., WDR) instead of
frequency.
Locate each station by
frequency.
Display the current time.
Locate a specific type of
programme being broadcast.
(See page 14 for the types of
programmes you can select.)
Display the text messages sent
by the RDS station.
Determine each broadcast's
country of origin.
Check the signal strength of
FM frequencies. (See page 10
for details.)
Displaying the RDS
information
Press DISPLAY repeatedly until the
information you want is displayed.
Information
displayed
Station Name*
Frequency*
Clock Time
(24 hour system)
Programme Type
Radio Text
Programme
Identification
Digital signal meter*
* This information also appears for non-RDS FM
stations.
Notes
• If there is an emergency announcement by
governmental authorities, “ALARM” flashes in the
display.
• If a station is not providing a particular RDS
service, “NO...” (such as “NO PTY”) appears in the
display.
• When a station broadcasts radio text data, the
display shows the data at the rate it is sent from the
station. The display speed changes in relation to the
speed at which the data is sent.
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