played instead.
It takes two or three seconds for the Radio Text
information to be fully transmitted. If the RDS section
of the tuner is waiting to be updated then ‘WAIT’ will
appear in the Display Panel.
Pressing DISPLAY three times will display the fre-
quency that your NAD 414RDS is tuned to.
For non-RDS stations, the DISPLAY button will
switch between displaying the user-entered station
name (if any) and the frequency.
RDS station Non-RDS Station
Normal Operation
RDS Station initials (PS) User-entered station
name (or frequency if no
name has been entered)
Pressing: DISPLAY x1
RT* Current tuned frequency
Pressing: DISPLAY x2
CT* -
Pressing: DISPLAY x3
Current tuned frequency
* For information on the Radio Data Service, refer
to the list in the section “USING RDS”.
USING RDS TO SEARCH FOR STATIONS
AND INFORMATION.
RDS offers a facility to automatically search for
other stations that are transmitting similar program-
ming, or are provide traffic information or are stronger
transmissions of the same station on alternative fre-
quencies.
To use RDS to search for stations transmitting simi-
lar types of programme type, press the PTY TP AF
Button once. The current station’s programme type
will be displayed for two seconds in the Station Data
section of the Display Panel (see list below). Press
SCAN while this is displayed and your NAD 414RDS
will automatically search for other RDS stations trans-
mitting the same programme type. Each matching
station is heard for six seconds and its frequency
flashes, then Scan goes on to the next station that is
transmitting the same programme type. Press SCAN
again to stop the scanning process on a particular
station.
If you want to search for a particular programme
type then press the PTY TP AF Button once and then
use the TUNE/PRESET knob to choose the pro-
gramme type. Press SCAN to find any matching pro-
grammes.
To use RDS to search for stations transmitting traf-
fic information (usually after news bulletins), press the
PTY TP AF Button twice and press SCAN. Your NAD
414RDS will search out the first RDS station that
includes traffic information in their broadcasts. ‘*TP*’
indicates an RDS station that includes traffic informa-
tion, ‘TP’ indicates an RDS station that does not give
out traffic information or a non-RDS station.
To use RDS to search for a stronger signal for the
current station, press PTY TP AF Button three times
and press SCAN. Your NAD 414RDS will search out
the strongest signal for the current station.
This is normally used on In-Car systems to auto-
matically switch to the strongest version of a national
radio station when travelling. But it can be used to
check that you are tuned to the optimum signal for
that particular station.
RDS Search Options
press
PTY TP AF x 1 PTY Programme Type
Used to search for other similar programmes being
transmitted by other stations.
PTY TP AF x 2 TP Traffic Programme
Used to search for other stations transmitting traffic
information.
PTY TP AF x 3 AF Alternate Frequencies
Used to search for other strong frequencies that the
current station is being transmitted on.
The Programme Types can fall into one any one of
these 15 different categories.
Programme Types (PTY)
NONE No programme type information
transmitted
NEWS News programme
AFFAIRS Current affairs programme
INFO General information programme
SPORT Sport programme
EDUCATE Educational programme
DRAMA Plays or drama programme
CULTURE Culture/discussion programme
SCIENCE Science programme
VARIED Other general programme material
POP M Popular Music programme
ROCK M Rock Music programme
M.O.R. M Middle of the road music
programme
LIGHT M Light music/light classical
programme
CLASSICS Classical music programme
OTHER M Other types of music such as Jazz.
Folk, Country, Reggae, R&B etc.
Displaying clock time (CT)
If the station you are listening to is not an RDS sta-
tion, this function cannot be used.
1. Press the DISPLAY button and RT information
will be dispalyed.
2. Press the DISPLAY button one more time.
• A clock will appear on the display within one min-
ure after receiving a station broadcasting CT informa-
tion.
NO UPDATE or NO TIME will appear on the dis-
play within several seconds after receiving a station
which does not broadcast CT information. Then, the
PS information will be displayed.
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