TX-RZ1100 - Listening to AM/FM Radio

You can receive AM and FM radio stations on the TX-RZ1100 with the built-in tuner.

Tuning into a Radio Station

Tuning Automatically

1. Press TUNER repeatedly to select either "AM" or "FM".

2. Press MODE repeatedly to display "TunMode: Auto" on the display.

3. 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.

• When FM broadcasts reception is poor: Perform the procedure for "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.

Tuning Manually

1. Press TUNER repeatedly to select either "AM" or "FM".

2. Press MODE repeatedly to display "TunMode: Manual" on the display.

3. 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.

To return to the auto tuning mode:
Press MODE on the remote controller again so that "TunMode:Auto" appears on the display. The unit tunes automatically into a radio station.

Tuning to the frequency directly

It allows you to directly enter the frequency of the radio station you want to listen to.

1. Press TUNER on the remote controller several times to select either "AM" or "FM".

2. Press D.TUN on the remote controller.

3. Using the number buttons on the remote controller, enter the frequency of the radio station within 8
seconds.

• To enter 87.5 (FM), for example, press 8, 7, 5, or 8, 7, 5, 0. If you entered the wrong number, press
  D.TUN and enter the correct one.

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.

1. Press MEMORY so that the preset number on the display blinks.
   
   
   
2. While the preset number is blinking (approx. 8 seconds), repeatedly press the cursors to select a number between 1 and 40.
   
   
3. 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

1. Press TUNER.
2. Press the cursors to select a preset number.

Deleting a Preset Radio Station 

1. Press TUNER.
2. Press the cursors to select the preset number to delete.
3. 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 the "i" button on the remote controller in this state, you can use the following functions.

Display Text Information (Radio Text)

1. While the name of the station is being displayed on the display, press the "i" button 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

1. While the name of the station is being displayed on the display, press the "i" button on the remote controller twice.

• If none of the Program Types are set for the radio station under reception, "None" is displayed.

2. Press the cursor buttons 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.