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Radio
Your radio provides reception of the FM
and AM wavebands.
Listening to the radio
4. Press the controller.
Stations are shown on the Control Display
on the basis of various selection criteria,
e.g. "Presets".
If no station is displayed, update the sta-
tions with the best reception, refer to
page 132.
Press the button if the sound output is
switched off.
Control Center, for principle details, refer to
page 16:
Changing station
1. Press button.
The start menu is opened
Turn the controller.
In addition to the stations currently dis-
played, you can have stations with another
selection criterion displayed.
You can choose from the following selec-
tion criteria:
2. Move the controller backwards to open
"Entertainment"
> "Autostore":
The six strongest stations, refer to
page 132
3. Select "FM" or "AM"
> "Presets":
Stations you have stored, refer to
page 132.
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To change between these different selec-
tion criteria of stations:
To stop the scan:
1. Press the controller once again
2. Select "Scan" and press the controller.
1. Move the controller forwards to change
fields
This cancels the scan search, and the radio
remains on the current station.
2. Select a selection criterion
Buttons on the CD player:
To start the scan, press the button for a
longer period.
To stop the scan, press the button briefly.
Selecting frequency manually
Control Center, for principle details, refer to
page 16:
3. Press the controller.
1. Select "FM" or "AM"
2. Press the controller
Buttons on CD player
3. Move the controller forwards to change
fields
Briefly press the button for the correspond-
ing direction.
The system switches to the next displayed
station.
4. Select "Manual" and press the control-
ler
Playing stations, scan
The system automatically plays a brief
sample from each of the stations on the
current waveband.
Control Center, for principle details, refer to
page 16:
1. Select "FM" or "AM"
2. Press the controller
5. Turn the controller to set a certain fre-
quency.
3. Press the controller.
Other menu items are displayed
Buttons on the CD player:
4. Select "Scan" and press the controller.
In "Manual", you can set stations that are
received in addition to those displayed.
To start the scan, press the button for a
longer period.
The scan mode begins with the currently
selected frequency.
The system plays a brief sample from each
radio station.
Scan starts.
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To stop the scan at the desired frequency
or station:
Press button.
Storing stations
Control Center, for principle details, refer to
page 16:
Updating stations with best
reception
1. Select "FM" or "AM"
2. Select the desired station.
"Set" has been selected
If you are on a longer journey and leave the
transmission range of the stations originally
set, you can update the list of stations with
the best reception.
Control Center, for principle details, refer to
page 16:
1. Select "FM" or "AM"
2. Press the controller
3. Move the controller forwards to change
fields
4. Select "Autostore" and press the con-
troller
3. Press the controller.
Other menu items are displayed
4. Select "Store" and press the controller.
5. Press the controller.
Other menu items are displayed
"Presets" is displayed
6. Select "Autostore" and press the con-
troller.
5. Turn the controller until the desired
memory location is selected.
The number of the memory location
appears beside the name or frequency
of the station
6. Press the controller.
The station is stored.
The display of the stations with the stron-
gest reception is updated. The stations are
displayed based on their frequencies.
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The stations of the last selection criterion
are displayed once again after a short time.
Weather Band*
Weather Radio is a service of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration –
NOAA – of the U.S. Department of Com-
merce. Weather messages are repeated
every four to six minutes and are routinely
revised every one to three hours, or more
frequently if needed. Most of the stations
operate 24 hours daily. During severe
weather, National Weather Service fore-
casters can interrupt the routine weather
broadcasts and substitute special warning
messages. If you have a question concern-
ing NOAA Weather Radio, please contact
your nearest National Weather Service
Office, or write to National Weather Service
– Attn: W/OM11 –, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, 1325 East-
West Highway, Silver Spring, MD. 20910.
Depending on which key you have used to
open the vehicle, other stored stations are
displayed.
Changing a memory location
Control Center, for principle details, refer to
page 16:
1. Select "Presets" and press the control-
ler
2. Select the desired station
3. Press the controller.
Other menu items are displayed
4. Select "Store" and press the controller
Selecting Weather Band
Control Center, for principle details, refer to
page 16:
1. Select "WB" and press the controller
5. Turn the controller until the desired
memory location is selected.
The number of the memory location
appears beside the name or frequency
of the station
6. Press the controller.
The station is stored.
RDS Radio Data System
2. Select the Weather Band station and
press the controller.
RDS transmits additional information in the
FM frequency range. RDS stations have the
following properties:
It can occur that the Weather Band station
is not available in some regions.
> In the case of broadcasting networks
that transmit over a number of frequen-
cies, there is an automatic switch to the
frequency with the best reception qual-
ity
Satellite radio*
You can receive up to 100 different chan-
nels with high tone quality.
> If the reception conditions are good, the
station names are shown on the Control
Display. If the reception is weak or dis-
rupted, it can take some time before the
station names appear.
The channels are offered to you in pre-
defined combinations. To receive the chan-
nels of your choice, you must have this
combination enabled.
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You may experience signal drops and
muting events related to this new
technology.<
Enabling
1. Select a channel that has not yet been
enabled and press the controller.
A telephone number and the electronic
serial number, ESN, are displayed
Enabling or disabling channels
Control Center, for principle details, refer to
page 16:
The electronic serial number is
required to enable or disable.<
1. Press button.
2. To have the channels enabled:
Dial the telephone number or, in the
case of equipment with two drives,
select the telephone number and press
the controller.
The start menu is opened
Disabling
1. Select an enabled channel and press
the controller
2. Move the controller backwards to open
"Entertainment"
3. Select "SAT"
1. Select "ESN" and press the controller.
A telephone number and the electronic
serial number, ESN, are displayed
The electronic serial number is
required to disable.<
2. To have the channels disabled:
Dial the telephone number or, in the
case of equipment with two drives,
select the telephone number and press
the controller.
4. Press the controller.
Selecting and storing channel
1. Select "SAT" and press the controller.
The channels are displayed.
These channels are enabled.
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Channels are shown on the Control Dis-
play sorted on the basis of various
selection criteria
6. Press the controller.
Other menu items are displayed
7. Select "Play" and press the controller.
2. Select a menu item:
> "Presets":
Up to twelve channels you have
stored
> "All channels"
> "Categories":
All channels sorted by category, e.g.
news, jazz
Additional information
The name of the channel and additional
information on the current track are dis-
played, e.g. the name of the artist.
3. Press the controller
4. If "Categories" has been selected:
Select the desired category and press
the controller.
1
2
3
Artist
Track
Album*
Storing channel
1. Select desired channel
2. Press the controller.
Other menu items are displayed
The channels of this category are dis-
played
3. Select "Store" and press the controller.
5.
Select a channel marked with this
symbol
"Presets" is displayed
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4. Turn the controller to select a memory
location and press the controller.
The channel is stored. The stations of the
last selection criterion are displayed once
again after a short time.
Changing channel with buttons on
CD player
Briefly press the button for the correspond-
ing direction.
The system switches to the next enabled
channel.
Notes
When there is a signal blockage or the
transmission is suspended momentarily for
more than 4 seconds, a message appears
on the Control Display.
Service may be interrupted or
unavailable for specific reasons such
as environmental or topographic condi-
tions and others that Satellite Radio cannot
directly control.
Signal may not be available under tunnels,
in parking garages, next to tall buildings,
nearby trees with dense foliage, nearby
mountains or other possible strong sources
of radio interference.
Service should resume normally after the
source of signal unavailability has been
cleared.<
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