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E10
OPERATION MANUAL
AM/FM/SHORTWAVE RADIO
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 DO YOU NEED HELP?.....................................................2 DELETING A MEMORY’S CONTENTS......................... 15 DO YOU NEED HELP? 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS.....................................................3 DELETING ALL MEMORY PAGE CONTENTS............... 16 3 MAJOR FEATURES OF THE etón E10............................. 4 MOVING A STORED FREQUENCY.............................. 16 Thank you for purchasing the E10 4 DIAGRAMS...................
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL 3 MAJOR FEATURES OF THE etón E10 4 DIAGRAMS POWER/SLEEP • FM Frequency Range: 87 – 108 MHz (For America); 76 – 108 MHz (For Japan) Lock Button • Shortwave Frequency Range: 1711 – 29999KHz Timer A Button Timer B Button • 9/10KHz step selector for Medium Wave (AM) reception LCD Display • 1KHz step for the display of Medium wave and Shortwave • SW IF SET feature, shifts the intermediate frequency to minimize interference during shortwave reception. • Shortwave antenna trimmer
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL 5 GETTING STARTED DIAGRAMS continued WHAT THE E10 INCLUDES this product’s warranty. If the batteries leak, don’t RADIO OFF DISPLA RADIO OFF DISPLAY Y RADIO ON DISPLAY throw them away and immediately contact the • Earbud style earphones Triangle Pointer Triangle Pointer manufacturer of the batteries to inquire about their Battery Symbol Battery Symbol Clock Digits • Carrying pouch battery leakage warranty program. Antenna Symbol Antenna Symbol • AC adaptor/charger 1-5 Scale
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL GETTING STARTED continued 6 BASIC RADIO OPERATION The included AC Adaptor/Charger may be used to Once charging is finished, ‘CHARGE’ will stop TURNING THE E10 ON AND OFF VOLUME AND TONE CONTROLS charge 4 Ni-MH rechargeable batteries (included) flashing and the charging indicator bars in the The E10 can be turned on by the two methods • The volume control (31), labeled VOLUME, is when installed onto the E10’s battery compart- upper left corner will stay on 5. shown below. To
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL BASIC RADIO OPERATION continued BASIC RADIO OPERATION continued LISTENING IN FM STEREO station encountered. Use the Up/Hour button to LOCKING THE TUNING KNOB USING THE SW IF SET auto-scan upward in frequency and the Down/Min. CONTROL FM stereo can be heard when using earphones/ To prevent accidentally tuning off of the radio sta- button to auto-scan downward in frequency. headphones. To hear FM in stereo, press the FM tion, the tuning knob can be locked while the radio T
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL CLOCK AND TIMER FEATURES continued 7 CLOCK AND TIMER FEATURES SETTING THE CLOCK 3. Use the numeric keypad to key-in the time in 24 When the timer activates, it turns on the radio, TIMER SET METHOD 3 – TUNING hour format. Within 5 seconds of finishing, with the timer activation symbol appear flashing in KNOB The factory has set the clock to function as a 24- press/release the TIME SET button or wait until the display. The radio will play the station stored hour format clock
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL WORKING WITH MEMORY continued CLOCK AND TIMER FEATURES continued ACCESSING WHAT IS STORED MEMORY AUTO-SCAN ACTIVATING/DEACTIVATING USING THE SNOOZE FEATURE INTO MEMORY THE TIMER Memory Auto-scan enables scanning through the When the timer activates and turns the radio on, There are three ways to access what has been memories within the selected memory page. Each For a timer to turn on the radio, it must be activated. the timer activation symbol (39) appears flashing in s
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL WORKING WITH MEMORY continued 9 SYSTEM SET CODES DELETING ALL MEMORY PAGE CUSTOMIZING MEMORY PAGES System Set Codes allow the radio to be tailored to your needs by changing certain programmable functions. These CONTENTS functions and their descriptions are noted in the table. The E10 is configured at the factory with 10 memory 1. Press/release the PAGE button (11). pages, each page having 50 memories, for a total SYSTEM SET CODE TABLE of 500 memories. You can change this s
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL SYSTEM SET CODES continued 10 ADDITIONAL E10 CONTROLS CHANGING SYSTEM SET DEFAULT FACTORY SYSTEM USING THE LIGHT USING THE ANTENNA CODES SET CODES TRIMMER CONTROL A quick, short press/release of the SNOOZE/LIGHT To enter a system code of your choice, use the When shipped from the factory, the radio’s System button (7), located on the front of the radio’s upper This control knob, labeled ANT TRIM and located procedure below. Set Code Table is set up as follows. Changes can r
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL 11 LISTENING TO SHORTWAVE STATIONS LISTENING TO SHORTWAVE STATIONS continued Are you new to shortwave listening? If so, you’ll GENERAL SHORTWAVE ‘RULES- SELECTING A SHORTWAVE AUTO-SCAN TUNING WHILE IN want to read this section and the next section OF-THUMB’ METER BAND WITH THE E10 SHORTWAVE called UNDERSTANDING SHORTWAVE BANDS. • Night shortwave reception is usually better than All 14 of the international broadcast bands can be In shortwave, auto-scan tuning scans in the
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL LISTENING TO SHORTWAVE STATIONS continued LISTENING TO SHORTWAVE STATIONS continued BAND CHART OF SHORTWAVE AUTO-SCANING RANGES SHORTWAVE PUBLICATIONS: LEARNING MORE ABOUT FINDING SPECIFIC STATIONS SHORTWAVE To help find specific stations and their broadcast To learn more about shortwave see the next section 31 9400 – 10000 FREQUENCY RANGE BAND times, frequencies and target areas, review the two titled UNDERSTANDING SHORTWAVE BANDS. (METERS) 25 11500 – 12150 excellent publ
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTWAVE BANDS continued UNDERSTANDING SHORTWAVE BANDS continued DAY BANDS AND NIGHT BANDS DAYTIME LISTENING EVENING/NIGHT LISTENING THE DIFFERENCE IS IMPORTANT Shortwave listening is generally at its poorest dur- This is the best time to listen, because the broadcasters are deliberately transmitting to North America. Because shortwave signals depend on such factors ing the daylight hours of about 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. These bands may be extremely good around su
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL 13 TROUBLESHOOTING 14 WARRANTY REGISTRATION RESET PROCEDURE STATIONS ARE RECEIVED TOO WEAK To ensure full warranty coverage or product updates, registration of your etón or Grundig product should be complete The RESET button is on the bottom of the E10. as soon as possible after purchase or receipt. To register your radio, please select one of the following methods: • Assure that the ANTENNA GAIN switch is set to When performing a reset, have good batteries in the the DX pos
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E10 OPERATION MANUAL 15 LIMITED WARRANTY TO THE ORIGINAL CUSTOMER 16 SERVICE INFORMATION This etón or Grundig brand product, as supplied and distributed by etón Corporation (etón) is warranted by etón SERVICE YOUR ETÓN OR GRUNDIG PRODUCT against manufacturing defects in material and workmanship for the following limited warranty period: To obtain service for your etón or Grundig product we recommend first contacting an etón service representative at 800-872-2228 US, 800-637-1648 Canada or (65
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www.etoncorp.com From the United States: (800) 872-2228 From Canada: (800) 637-1648 From Everywhere Else: (650) 903-3866 Email: customersvc@etoncorp.com Internet: www.etoncorp.com etón Corporation 1015 Corporation Way Palo Alto, California 94303 USA
