Hd Radioä Tuner; About Hd Radioä Stations; Hd Radio Tuner Operations; Storing And Recalling Stations - Pioneer AVH-X8500BHS Owner's Manual

Section
06 HD Radioä tuner
About HD Radioä stations
HD Radioä stations offer high-quality audio and
data services. HD Radio stations are brought to
you by local FM/AM stations.
HD Radio stations feature the following:
! High quality audio
! FM multicasting
! Data services
Program Service Data: Contributes to the superior user
experience of HD Radio Technology. Presents song name,
artist, station IDs, HD2/HD3 Channel Guide, and other rel-
evant data streams.
Adjacent to traditional main stations are extra local FM
channels. These HD2/HD3 Channels provide new, original
music as well as deep cuts into traditional genre.
Digital, CD-quality sound. HD Radio Technology enables
local radio stations to broadcast a clean digital signal.
AM sounds like today s FM and FM sounds like a CD.
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iTunes Tagging provides you the opportunity to discover
a wide range of content and the means to tag that con-
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tent for later review and purchase from the iTunes Store.
Visual information related to content being played on
your HD Radio receiver, such as Album Art, historical
photographs, still art from live broadcasts, among other
related content.
HD Radioä Technology
! HD Radio Technology manufactured under li-
cense from iBiquity Digital Corporation. U.S.
and Foreign Patents. HD Radioä and the
HD, HD Radio, and Arc logos are propriet-
ary trademarks of iBiquity Digital Corp.

HD Radio tuner operations

Touch panel keys
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1 Band key
Selecting a band (FM or AM) by touching the
band key.
The touch panel key for the selected band is
highlighted.
HD Radioä tuner
Switching between FM1, FM2, and FM3 by
touching the band key.
When AM is selected, you cannot switch to
another AM band by touching the band key.
2 Tag key
Saving song information (tag) from the
broadcasting station to your iPod.
3 Reception mode key
Switching to the analog broadcast of the
same frequency.
4 Seek mode key
Switching between Digital broadcasting sta-
tion seek and normal seek.
5 Local key
Setting the local seek level.
6 Tuning key
Tuning up or down manually.
Touch and hold down for more than two sec-
onds to skip stations. Seek tuning starts as
soon as you release. Touch again to cancel
seek tuning.
When an analog station is received, tuning
down operation is conducted within the ana-
log broadcasting. (6 d 2)
If a digital broadcast is not yet received, tun-
ing-up operation tunes in the next analog sta-
tion. (2 d 6)
Analog FM 1
Analog FM 2 Digital FM-1ch 3
Digital FM-2ch 4
Digital FM-3ch 5
Analog FM 6
7 List key
Displaying the preset channel list.
8 Preset channel key
Selecting a preset channel.
Basic operations
Switching preset channels using the buttons
1 Press c or d (TRK).
Seek tuning using the buttons
1 Press and hold c or d (TRK).
Note
Touch panel keys not listed under HD Radio
tuner operations may appear on the display.
Refer to Indicator list on page 61.

Storing and recalling stations

You can easily store up to six stations for each
band as presets.
1 Display the preset channel list screen.
Refer to HD Radio tuner operations on page 12.
The preset channel list appears in the display.
2 Touch and hold down one of the preset
channel keys to store the selected frequency
to the memory.
The selected radio station frequency has been
stored in the memory.
3 Touch the appropriate preset channel key
to select the desired station.

Storing the strongest stations

BSM (best stations memory) automatically
stores the six strongest stations in the order of
their signal strength.
Storing broadcast frequencies with BSM may re-
place broadcast frequencies you have saved
using the preset channel keys.