TX-SR494 - Listening to the AM/FM Radio
Please use the following guide to tune a radio station, preset a radio station, and use RDS on the TX-SR494 AV Receiver.
Perform the following procedure when this unit is on.
Tuning into a Radio Station
Tuning Automatically
- Press TUNER repeatedly to select either "AM" or "FM".
- Press MODE repeatedly to display "TunMode: Auto" on the display.
- When you press the cursors, automatic tuning starts, and searching stops when a station is found.
When tuned in to a radio station, the "TUNED" indicator on the display lights up. When tuned in to an FM radio station, the "FM ST" indicator lights up.
- If FM broadcasts reception is poor: Perform the procedure for "Tuning Manually".
Tuning Manually
Note that if you tune manually, the reception for FM broadcasts will be monaural
rather than stereo, irrespective of the sensitivity of the reception.
- Press TUNER repeatedly to select either "AM" or "FM".
- Press MODE repeatedly to display "TunMode: Manual" on the display.
- While pressing the cursors, select the desired radio station.
- Each time you press the cursors, the frequency changes by 1 step. If the button is held down, the frequency changes continuously, and if the button is released, the frequency stops changing.
Frequency step setting
Press [Setting/Gear Icon], and using the cursors and ENTER, select "6. Miscellaneous" - "Tuner" - "AM/FM Frequency Step" or "AM Frequency Step", and then select the frequency step for your area.
- Note that when this setting is changed, all radio presets are deleted.
Presetting a Radio Station
Registration Procedure
You can preset up to 40 of your favorite AM/FM radio stations.
After tuning in to the AM/FM radio station you want to register, perform the following procedure:
- Press MEMORY so that the preset number on the display blinks.
- While the preset number is blinking (approx. 8 seconds), repeatedly press the cursors to select a number between 1 and 40.
- Press MEMORY again to register the station.
- When the station is registered, the preset number stops blinking.
Repeat this steps to register your favorite AM/FM radio stations.
Selecting a Preset Radio Station
- Press TUNER.
- Press the cursors to select a preset number.
Deleting a Preset Radio Station
- Press TUNER.
- Press the cursors to select the preset number to delete.
- After pressing MEMORY, press CLEAR while the preset number is blinking, and delete the preset number. When deleted, the number on the display disappears.
Using RDS (European, Australian and Asian models)
RDS stands for Radio Data System, and is a method of transmitting data in FM radio signals. In regions where RDS can be used, when you tune in to a radio station broadcasting program information, the radio station name is displayed on the display.
When you press "i" on the remote controller in this state, you can use the following functions.
Display Text Information (Radio Text)
- While the name of the station is being displayed on the display, press on the remote controller once.
- The Radio Text (RT), which is text information delivered by the station, is displayed scrolling across the display.
- "No Text Data" is displayed when no text information is delivered.
Search for Stations by Program Type
- While the name of the station is being displayed on the display, press on the
remote controller twice.
If none of the Program Types are set for the radio station under reception,
"None" is displayed. - Press the cursors on the remote controller to select the Program Type
you want to search for, and then press the ENTER button to start the search.
- The Program Types displayed are as follows: None / News (News reports) /
Affairs (Current affairs) / Info (Information) / Sport / Educate (Education) /
Drama / Culture / Science (Science and technology) / Varied / Pop M (Pop
music) / Rock M (Rock music) / Easy M (Middle of the road music) / Light M
(Light classics) / Classics (Serious classics) / Other M (Other music) /
Weather / Finance / Children (Children's programmes) / Social (Social
affairs) / Religion / Phone In / Travel / Leisure / Jazz (Jazz music) / Country
(Country music) / Nation M (National music) / Oldies (Oldies music) / Folk
M (Folk music) / Document (Documentary) - The information displayed may not match the content delivered by the
station.
3. When a station is found, the station blinks on the display. Pressing the ENTER
button in this state will receive that station. If you don't press the ENTER
button, the unit starts to search for another station.
- If no stations are found, the message "Not Found" is displayed.
Unusual characters may be displayed when the unit receives unsupported
characters. This is not a malfunction. Also, if the signal from a station is weak,
information may not be displayed.
Comments
2 comments
Just trying to get some sound, other than setup tones, from the new Onkyo TX SR494 AVR.
Hello Mac McVey,
I had saw that you also reached out to our tech support team via email about your issue that you had put on this forum. Did the troubleshooting that was provided to you help with the audio to produce through the TXSR494? Or are you still having an issue?
Thank you
Jennifer
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