2 Press and hold . or 4 until “M” (manual) starts flashing on the display. Selected band appears BEAT POP SOFT LOUD When a station is received, searching stops. 6 3 Tune into a station you want while “M” is flashing. To tune into stations of higher frequencies. To tune into stations of lower frequencies. • If you release your finger from the button, the manual mode will automatically turn off after 5 seconds. • If you hold down the button, the frequency keeps changing until you release the button. When an FM stereo broadcast is hard to receive: Press MO/RND (Monaural/Random) while listening to an FM stereo broadcast. • Each time you press the button, the MO indicator lights up and goes off alternately. Lights up when receiving an FM broadcast in stereo. ST BEAT POP SOFT LOUD MO/RND MO BEAT POP SOFT LOUD When the MO indicator is lit on the display, the sound you hear becomes monaural but the reception will be improved (the ST indicator goes off). To restore the stereo effect, press the same button again. Storing stations in memory You can use one of the following two methods to store broadcasting stations in memory. • Automatic preset of FM stations: SSM (Strongstation Sequential Memory) • Manual preset of both FM and AM stations FM station automatic preset: SSM You can preset 6 local FM stations in each FM band (FM1, FM2 and FM3). 1 Select the FM band (FM1 – 3) you want to store FM stations into. F M Each time you press the button, the FM band changes as follows: FM1 FM2 FM3 2 Press and hold both buttons for more than 2 seconds. BEAT POP SOFT LOUD “SSM” appears, then disappears when automatic preset is over. Local FM stations with the strongest signals are searched and stored automatically in the band number you have selected (FM1, FM2 or FM3). These stations are preset in the number buttons — No.1 (lowest frequency) to No.6 (highest frequency). When automatic preset is over, the station stored in button number 1 will be automatically tuned into. ENGLISH 7 ENGLISH Manual preset You can preset up to 6 stations in each band (FM1, FM2, FM3 and AM) manually. Ex: Storing an FM station of 88.3 MHz into the preset number 1 of the FM1 band 1 Select the band (FM1 – 3, AM) you want to store stations into (in this example, FM1). Each time you press the button, the FM band changes as follows: F M FM1 FM2 FM3 2 Tune into a station of 88.3 MHz. To tune into stations of higher frequencies. To tune into stations of lower frequencies. ST BEAT POP SOFT LOUD 3 Press and hold the number button (in this example, 1) for more than 2 seconds. 4 Repeat the above procedure to store other stations into other preset numbers. Notes: • A previously preset station is erased when a new station is stored in the same preset number. • Preset stations are erased when the power supply to the memory circuit is interrupted (for example, during battery replacement). If this occurs, preset the stations again. Tuning into a preset station You can easily tune into a preset station. Remember that you must store stations first. If you have not stored them yet, see “Storing stations in memory” on page 7. 1 Select the band (FM1 – 3, AM). FM3F M FM1 FM2 A M AM 2 Select the number (1 – 6) for the preset station you want. ST BEAT POP SOFT LOUD Preset number “P1” flashes for a while 8 Other convenient tuner functions Scanning broadcast stations RPT SCAN When you press RPT/SCAN while listening to the radio, station scanning starts. Each time a broadcast is tuned in, scanning stops for about 5 seconds (tuned frequency number flashes on the display), and you can check what program is now being broadcast. If you want to listen to that program, press the same button again to stop scanning. Changing the AM/FM channel intervals When using this unit in an area other than North or South America: When this unit is shipped from the factory, the channel intervals are set to 10 kHz for AM and 200 kHz for FM. You can change the channel intervals by following the procedure below. 1 Press SEL (Select) for more than 2 seconds. “CLOCK H”, “CLOCK M” or “AREA” appears on the display. 2 If “AREA” does not appear, press 4 or . until it appears. 3 Press +. “AREA EU” appears and the channel intervals are set to 9 kHz for AM and 50 kHz (for manual tuning) / 100 kHz (for searching) for FM. To reset to the factory setting, follow the above step 1 and 2, then press – in step 3 (“AREA US” appears on the display.) ENGLISH AREA EU : Select this when used in an area other than North and South America. AREA US: Select this when used in North or South America. 9 TAPE OPERATIONS ENGLISH Listening to a cassette You can playback type 1 (normal) tapes. 1 Turn on the power. To stop play and eject the cassette. Press 0. Tape play stops and the cassette automatically ejects from the cassette compartment. The source changes to the previously selected one. /I/ATT Note on One-Touch Operation: If a cassette is already in the cassette compartment, tape play starts automatically. However, it is not reco...