An Introduction To Rds - Pioneer XC-L77(DU-L77) Operating Instruction

The display shows the station
memory number and a flashing
cursor
Display after inputting the first
character
Tip
If you make a mistake, you can go
back and correct the last
character by pressing
DISPLAY
abort completely and start again,
press .
CANCEL
Display showing the completed
name

An Introduction to RDS

3 Enter a name for the current station
memory.
Names can be up to 9 characters long and can contain letters (upper and
lower case), numbers, spaces and other symbols.
To select a character:
Use the
CHARACTER
Alphabet (uppercase) - Alphabet (lowercase) -
numbers (0-9) & punctuation/symbols
Use the $ and › buttons to select a character from the current list:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ . , ' / <space>
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz . , ' / <space>
. To
0123456789
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ _ ` <space>
Press to enter the character.
SET
The cursor moves to the next character position ready for you to input
another character.
4 When you're happy with the station name,
press MENU to exit.
Radio Data System, or RDS as it's usually known, is a system used by FM radio
stations to provide listeners with various kinds of information—the name of the
station and the kind of show they're broadcasting, for example. This information
shows up as text on the display, and you can switch between the kind of information
shown. Although you don't get RDS information from all FM radio stations, you do
with most.
Probably the best feature of RDS is that you can search automatically by type of
programme. So, if you felt like listening to jazz, you could search for a station that's
broadcasting a show with the programme type, "JAZZ." There are around 30 such
programme types, including various genres of music, news, sport, talk shows, financial
information, and so on.
The XC–L77 receiver let's you display three different kinds of RDS information: Radio
Text, Programme Service Name, and Programme Type.
Radio Text (RT) is messages sent by the radio station. These can be anything the
broadcaster chooses—a talk radio station might give out its telephone number as RT,
for example.
Programme Service Name (PS) is the name of the radio station.
Programme Type (PTY) indicates the kind of programme currently being broadcast.
6 Using the Tuner
button to switch between character lists:
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