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PTY programme types
Programme types
Prerequisite
Radio stations offer the “programme types”
service in FM range (RDS l, RDS ll, RDS lll).
Programme types
The programme types a radio station offers
change according to the programme being
broadcast.
NO PTY No programme type identifier
NEWS News and current events
AFFAIRS Politics and current affairs
INFO Special talk programme
(e.g., consumers´ magazine)
SPORT
Sport programme
EDUCATE Learning and further education
DRAMA Radio plays and literature
CULTURE Culture, church and society
SCIENCE Science
VARIED Talk entertainment
POP Pop music (hits)
ROCK M Rock music
M.O.R. M Light music
LIGHT M Light classical music
CLASSICS Serious classical music
OTHER M Music programmes that cannot be
categorised (e.g., Folklore)
Memory positions
Memory positions
are assigned the programme types:
“
1
NEWS
-button News and current events
“
2
SPORT
-button Sport programme
“
3
POP
-button Pop and light music
“
4
ROCK
-button Rock music
“
5
CLASSICS
-button Serious and light
classical music
Memory position
“
6
can be assigned a programme type of your
choice, see “programme types”:
“
6
PERS
button personal.
PTY function
Range RDS l, RDS ll or RDS lll.
1.Switching on the PTY function
Press the
“
PTY
DX m
button briefly:
last selected programme type is in display.
2.Select programme type …
with the
memory buttons
“
1
“
2
“
3
Press button briefly.
“
4
“
5
Programme type in display.
PTY search starts automatically,
goes to the next station which is offering the
selected programme type;
>PTY …< is in the display.
With the
memory position button
“
6
press the button repeatedly until the desired
programme type is in the display.
3.Start or continue PTY search
Briefly press the
“
ɶɶ
button or
the
“
ʺʺ
button:
PTY search goes to the next station that is
offering the selected programme type;
>PTY …< in the display.
During the PTY search you can switch to
another programme type using the
memory buttons.
If no station is offering your selected
programme type, you will hear the last
station that was tuned in.
4.Switching off the PTY function
Briefly press the
“
PTY
DX m
button or
automatically after approx. 60 secs.
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