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Listening to the radio, Saving station presets, Using the tuner – Pioneer VSX-1018AH-S User Manual

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Chapter 6:

Using the tuner

Listening to the radio

The following steps show you how to tune in to FM and
AM radio broadcasts using the automatic (search) and
manual (step) tuning functions. If you already know the
frequency of the station you want, see

Tuning directly to a

station below. Once you are tuned to a station you can
memorize the frequency for recall later—see

Saving

station presets below for more on how to do this.

1

Press the FM/AM button to select the tuner.

2

Use the FM/AM button to change the band (FM or

AM), if necessary.
Each press switches the band between FM and AM.

3

Tune to a station.

There are three ways to do this:

Automatic tuning
To search for stations in the currently selected band,
press and hold

TUNE

/ for about a second. The

receiver will start searching for the next station,
stopping when it has found one. Repeat to search for
other stations.

Manual tuning
To change the frequency one step at a time, press
TUNE

/.

High speed tuning
Press and hold

TUNE

/ for high speed tuning.

Release the button at the frequency you want.

Improving FM stereo sound

If the

TUNED or STEREO indicators don’t light when

tuning to an FM station because the signal is weak, press
the

MPX button to switch the receiver into mono

reception mode. This should improve the sound quality
and allow you to enjoy the broadcast.

Using Neural THX

This feature uses Neural Surround™, THX

®

technology to

achieve optimal surround sound from FM radio.

• While listening to FM radio, press

AUTO/DIRECT for

Neural THX listening.

See

About Neural – THX Surround on page 89 for more on

this.

The

Neural THX mode can be selected also with the

STANDARD button.

Tuning directly to a station

Sometimes, you’ll already know the frequency of the
station you want to listen to. In this case, you can simply
enter the frequency directly using the number buttons on
the remote control.

1

Press the FM/AM button to select the tuner.

2

Use the FM/AM button to change the band (FM or

AM), if necessary.
Each press switches the band between FM and AM.

3

Press D.ACCESS (Direct Access).

4

Use the number buttons to enter the frequency of

the radio station.
For example, to tune to

106.00 (FM), press 1, 0, 6, 0, 0.

If you make a mistake halfway through, press

D.ACCESS

twice to cancel the frequency and start over.

Saving station presets

If you often listen to a particular radio station, it’s
convenient to have the receiver store the frequency for
easy recall whenever you want to listen to that station.
This saves the effort of manually tuning in each time. This
receiver can memorize up to 30 stations, stored in three
banks, or classes (A, B and C) of 10 stations each. When
saving an FM frequency, the MPX setting (see above) is
also stored.

1

Tune to a station you want to memorize.

See

Listening to the radio above for more on this.

2

Press T.EDIT (Tuner Edit).

The display shows

STATION MEMORY, then a blinking

memory class.

3

Press CLASS to select one of the three classes, then

press ST

/ to select the station preset you want.

You can also use the number buttons to select a station
preset.

DIMMER

FM/AM

INPUT

1

2

3

SLEEP

MCACC

INPUT

SELECT

GENRE

4

5

6

A.ATT

SBch

SR+

7

8

9

CLASS

MASTER

VOLUME

CH LEVEL

D.ACCESS

0

ENTER

iPod USB

FM/AM

D.ACCESS

MENU

T.EDIT

TOP MENU

RETURN

iPod CTRL

SETUP

EXIT

TOOLS

PTY

SEARCH

AUDIO

PARAMETER

ENTER

TUNE

ST

ST

TUNE

VIDEO

PARAMETER

ENTER

TUNE

TUNE

AUTO/

DIRECT

THX

STATUS

PHASE

TV CTRL

HDD

STEREO/

A.L.C.

DVD

STANDARD

BD MENU

ADV SURR

DTV/TV

AUDIO

DISPLAY

EON

MPX

SIGNAL SEL

CH

RECEIVER

MPX

INPUT

TV CONTROL

4

5

6

A.ATT

SBch

SR+

7

8

9

CLASS

MASTER

VOLUME

CH LEVEL

D.ACCESS

0

ENTER

CLASS

ENTER

MENU

T.EDIT

TOP MENU

RETURN

iP d CTRL

SETUP

EXIT

TOOLS

PTY

SEARCH

AUDIO

PARAMETER

ENTER

TUNE

ST

ST

TUNE

VIDEO

PARAMETER

MENU

T.EDIT

ST

ST

ENTER

THX

STATUS

PHASE

TV CTRL

DTV/TV

AUDIO

DISPLAY

EON

MPX

SIGNAL SEL

CH

RECEIVER

DISPLAY

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