Sunfire Theater Grand Receiver TGR-401-230 - Manual (Page 65)

User's Manual
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APPENDIX
General tuning and use:
Tune UP/DOWN to any channel by
being in Channel Mode and press-
ing NAV UP or NAV DOWN. Press-
ing NAV SEL toggles back and forth
between Channel Mode and Category
Mode, and will show which tuning
mode you are in. Even if you are
displaying Song title, the display will
revert to Channel name while you are
tuning for ease of navigation.
CHANNEL UP/DOWN buttons will
tune any presets you have loaded
with channels. If you only have the
first four presets loaded, then pressing
Channel Up after preset 4 will wrap
back around to preset 1.
Category tuning is activated by
pressing NAV SEL. Briefly, the sec-
ond display line will say “Category
Mode.” Now when you tune channel
up/down, you will only step through
the channels inside the category you
are in (POP, NEWS, etc.) To change
categories, use NAV LEFT or NAV
RIGHT. Each press will step you to a
new category. To rapidly preview the
content of the channels in the current
category, press and hold down the
tune up or tune down keys. You will
still hear the last tuned station play-
ing but be able to see what is playing
on the other channels, from the info
on the display. Pausing for a couple
seconds during tuning will then tune
to the channel that you are visually
previewing.
The num keys can be used in two
ways: direct enter channel access, or
direct enter preset access. The default
when the TGR-401 is first powered
on is direct enter channel access. On
page 2 of the TG401 softkey menu on
the remote (or page 1 of the Zone2
softkey remote menu) is a button
label called TUNMD. Pressing this
toggles back and forth between direct
enter channel and direct enter preset
modes. Press the button once and
then try any of the num keys. If you
get a SIRIUS-P_ _ on the top line of
the display, then you are in Preset
direct tune. Enter the two digits of
your choice for the preset number that
you want. For presets below 10, enter
a zero for the first num key. Once two
digits are entered, the tuner will tune
to that preset and display the channel
number on the top line and the chan-
nel description on the second line. For
direct enter channel tuning, you will
need to enter three digits, starting with
00, if the channel is below ten.
To see information about the cur-
rently tuned station, press the INFO
key to cycle through Category (CAT>),
Artist (ART>), Song Title (TTL>),
Composer (CMP>) and the playmode
(Stereo by default).
Troubleshooting:
If you are in a marginal signal area,
with no terrestrial repeaters, or the an-
tenna is blocked by trees or buildings,
you may see the message “ACQUIR-
ING” come up on the display with no
sound playing. Below a certain signal
strength threshold of usability, the
tuner will try to re-acquire the satellite
signal. If necessary, readjust the an-
tenna or relocate it in a more optimum
position.
If the antenna cable is not plugged
in on one end or the other, you will get
an error message “ANTENNA”. Power
down the system and re-check all
connections.
If you cannot tune any stations
other than 0 or 184, or cannot get any
channel info on your presets, then
your SIRIUS tuner unit may not be
powered up. Check to see that you
have a green indicator light on the
tuner unit. Not having an active sub-
scription will also cause this.
If you see the message “SUB
UPDATED”, then SIRIUS is updating
your subscription to include or dis-
clude channels.
If you see the message “CALL
SIRIUS”, then you are currently tuned
to a channel that was just deactivated
by SIRIUS, due to channel lineup
change, subscription is deactivated or
changed, etc.
If you see the message “UPDAT-
ING”, then SIRIUS is performing an
automatic firmware update to your
SIRIUS tuner module (unrelated to
TGR-401 firmware updates).
If you see the message “UPDAT-
ING 10%”, then you are 10% finished
with having a firmware update from
SIRIUS. The updates take less than a
minute or two, typically.
Certain SIRIUS features are not
supported with the Sunfire TGR-401,
such as channel locking, channel skip-
ping, JumpSet operation, traffic jump,
storing songs, artists and games,
SIRIUS Seek, SIRIUS Alerts, Virtual
Categories, Game Alerts, and buffered
operation with Play/Pause functions.