Listening To The Radio; Improving Fm Sound; Naming Preset Stations - Pioneer X-HM70-S Manual De Instrucciones

Listening to the radio

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. 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 TUNER to select the tuner.
2 Use BAND to change the band (FM or AM), if necessary.
Each press switches the band between FM (stereo or mono)
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.
– Lights when a normal broadcast channel.
– Lights when a stereo FM broadcast is being received in
auto stereo mode.
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Improving FM sound

If the or indicators don't light when tuning to an FM
station because the signal is weak, set the receiver to the
mono reception mode.
 Press BAND to select FM MONO.
This should improve the sound quality and allow you to enjoy
the broadcast.
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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 unit can
memorize up to 40 stations.
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1 Tune to a station you want to memorize.
See Listening to the radio above for more on this.
2 Press TUNER EDIT.
The preset number is blinking.
3 Press PRESET / to select the station preset you
want.
You can also use the numeric buttons. See Direct track search
on page 14.
4 Press ENTER.
The preset number stop blinking and the receiver stores the
station.
Note
• If the receiver is left disconnected from the AC power
outlet for over a month, the station memories will be lost
and will have to be reprogrammed.
• Stations are stored in stereo. When the station is stored
in the FM MONO mode, it shows as
Listening to station presets
You will need to have some presets stored to do this. See
Saving station presets above if you haven't done this already.
 Press PRESET / to select the station preset you
want.
You can also use the numeric buttons.

Naming preset stations

For easier identification, you can name all of your preset
stations.
1 Choose the station preset you want to name.
See Listening to station presets above for how to do this.
2 Press TUNER EDIT twice.
The cursor at the first character position is blinking on the
display.
3 Input the name you want.
Choose a name up to eight characters long.
• Use / to select character position.
• Use / to select characters.
• The name is stored when ENTER is pressed.
Changing the noise cut mode
If you find that the AM sound quality is bad even after trying
the above, you may be able to improve it using a different
noise cut mode. Just choose the one that sounds best.
Default setting: Mode1
1 Press SETUP button after tuning to an AM radio station.
2 Press / to select "Noise Cut".
3 Press / to choose a Noise cut mode (1, 2 or 3) then
press ENTER.
when recalled.