Pioneer AVH-179DVD Owner's Manual - Page 13

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Radio

p By keeping pressing and holding

perform non stop seek tuning. If you press again, non stop

seek tuning is canceled and the preset channel is switched.

Starting procedure

1 Press

2 Touch [Radio].

The "Radio" screen appears.

Searching by PTY information

You can tune into a station using PTY (Program Type

Identification) information.

1 Touch

2 Touch

to select the item.

The following items are available:

News&Info (default), Popular, Classics, Others.

3 Touch

to start searching.

 If you touch [Cancel], the searching process is

canceled.

Storing the strongest broadcast

frequencies

The BSM (best stations memory) function automatically stores

the six strongest broadcast frequencies under the preset tuning

keys "1" to "6".

p Storing broadcast frequencies with BSM may replace those

you have already saved.

p Previously stored broadcast frequencies may remain stored

if the number of frequencies stored has not reached the

limit.

1 Touch

2 Touch

to begin a search.

While the message is displayed, the six strongest broadcast

frequencies will be stored under the preset tuning keys in order

of their signal strength.

 If you touch [Cancel], the storage process is

canceled.

Displaying the "Radio settings"

, you can

screen

1 Press

2 Touch

3 Touch [AV Source Settings].

4 Touch [Radio settings].

Tuning into strong frequencies

p You can use this function when "Radio" is selected as the

source.

Local seek tuning allows you to only tune into those radio sta-

tions with sufficiently strong signals.

1 Display the "Radio settings" screen.

 Displaying the "Radio settings" screen on page 13

2 Touch [Local].

3 Touch the item you want to set.

●

Off (default):

Turns the seek tuning setting off.

●

Level1 to Level4:

Sets the level of sensitivity for FM to Level1 to Level4 (for

AM Level1 or Level2).

p The FM "Level4" (AM "Level2") setting allows reception of

only stations with the strongest signals.

Setting the FM or AM tuning

step

You can switch the tuning step for FM or AM band.

p For FM band, the seek tuning step is fixed to 50 kHz.

p The tuning step remains at 50 kHz during manual tuning.

1 Turn the source off.

 Source on the Top menu screen on page 9

2 Display the "Radio settings" screen.

 Displaying the "Radio settings" screen on page 13

3 Touch [FM Step] or [AM Step] to switch the

tuning step.

The following items are available for each setting:

FM Step

●

100kHz(default)

●

50kHz

AM Step

, and then

●

9kHz (default)

●

10kHz

Setting the alternative fre-

quency search

When the tuner cannot get a good reception, tunes to another

broadcast station that supports the same program in the current

network.

1 Display the "Radio settings" screen.

 Displaying the "Radio settings" screen on page 13

2 Touch [Alternative FREQ] to switch "On" or

"Off" (default).

Setting the Auto PI search

When you switch to the broadcast station containing RDS data,

searches for the same PI (Program Identification) code broad-

cast station from all frequency band automatically.

1 Turn the source off.

 Source on the Top menu screen on page 9

2 Display the "Radio settings" screen.

 Displaying the "Radio settings" screen on page 13

3 Touch [Auto PI] to switch "On" or "Off"

(default).

p Even if you set to "Off", the PI search is automatically per-

formed when the tuner cannot get a good reception.

Limiting stations to regional

programing

You can switch whether the area code is checked during the

auto PI search.

1 Display the "Radio settings" screen.

 Displaying the "Radio settings" screen on page 13

2 Touch [Regional] to switch "On" (default) or

"Off".

Receiving traffic announce-

ments (TA)

The traffic announcement can be received from the last selected

frequency, interrupting the other sources.