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An introduction to rds & eon 27, An introduction to rds & eon, Using the tuner using the rds display – Pioneer VSX-D510 User Manual

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An Introduction to RDS & EON

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 receiver lets 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 it 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.
The receiver can search for and display the following
programme types:

News

Accounts of facts, events and reportage

Affairs

Current affairs

Info

General information

Sport

Any aspect of sports

Educate

Educational material

Drama

Radio plays or serials

Culture

National or regional culture, theatre, etc.

Science

Science and technology

Varied

Usually talk-based material, such as quiz
shows or interviews.

Pop M

Pop music

Rock M

Rock music

M.O.R. M

“Middle of the road” music

Light M

‘Light’ classical music

Classics

‘Serious’ classical music

Other M

Other music not fitting any of the above
categories

Weather

Weather reports, forecasts and
Meteological information

Finance

Stock market reports, commerce,
trading, etc.

Children

Children’s entertainment

Social A

Social affairs

Religion

Beliefs and faiths, involving Gods, the
nature of existence, and ethics

Phone in

Public expressing their views by phone

Travel

Holiday-type travel rather than traffic
announcements

Leisure

Leisure interests and hobbies

Jazz

Polyphonic, syncopated music
characterised by improvisation

Country

Country music

Nation M

Popular music in a language other than
English

Oldies

Popular music from the ’50s

Folk M

Folk music

Document

Documentaries

In addition, there is a programme type,

ALARM!

, used

for exceptional emergency announcements. You can’t
search for this, but the tuner will switch automatically to
this RDS broadcast signal.

Using the Tuner

Using the RDS display

To display the different types of

RDS

information

available (

RT

,

PS

and

PTY

as explained on the previous

page), press

TUN

(TUNER) on the remote control and

use the DISPLAY button (also marked

4) to cycle

through the types of

RDS

information.

Each press changes the display as follows:

MEMO
This unit converts lower case characters transmitted by
broadcast station to upper case characters.

3 RT

PS

PTY

Frequency

3

3

3