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DAB / FM RDS Digital Clock Radio with dual alarm
Please read this manual before use
ROBERTS
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Contents Controls ........................................................................... 2-3 Setting the clock manually ........................................... 23-24 Using the clock radio for the fi rst time .................................4 To return to auto clock set mode .......................................25 Operating your clock radio...................................................5 Clock display .....................................................................26 Selecting
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Controls (Top) 9 8 10 7 11 6 12 5 13 4 3 2 1 14 1. Sleep button 6. Alarm button 11. Dimmer button 2. Select / Info button 7. Menu button 12. Preset button 3. Mode button 8. Volume Down button 13. Tuning Up button 4. Snooze button 9. On / Standby button 14. LCD display 5. Tuning Down button 10. Volume Up button If you need any further advice, please call our Technical Helpline on :- 2 020 8758 0338 (Mon-Fri)
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Controls (rear) 15 DC 7.5V 16 17 18 19 15. Loudspeaker 16. DAB / FM wire aerial 17. USB socket (for software upgrades) 18. Headphone socket 19. DC input socket 3
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Using the clock radio for the fi rst time 1. Place your clock radio on a fl at surface. DC 7.5V 2. Fully extend the wire aerial located on the rear of your clock radio. Place the wire antenna so that it is as straight as possible extending either above or below the radio. 3. Insert the adaptor plug into the DC socket located on the rear of your clock radio. Plug the adaptor into a standard 13 amp mains socket outlet. The display will show 'ROBERTS' for a few seconds and will then show 'SET
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Operating your clock radio 1. Press the On / Standby button to switch on your clock radio. When fi rst switched on, the radio will be in DAB mode. After each use the radio will remember the mode used and then switch on in that mode the next time that it is used. 1 2. If the clock radio has been used before, the last used station will be selected. 3. If this is the fi rst time that the clock radio has been used a quick scan of the Band III DAB channels will be carried out. During the scanni
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Selecting a station - DAB 1. Press the On / Standby button to switch on your clock radio. 2. Press and release the Mode button until the DAB mode is selected. The display will show the name of the radio station currently selected. 2 3. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons to step through the list of available stations. 4. When the desired station name appears on the display, press and 3 release the Select button to select the station. The display will show 'TUNING' while your radio fi nds the
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Secondary services - DAB 1. Certain radio stations have one or more secondary services associated with them. If a station has a secondary service associated with it then the secondary service will then appear immediately after the primary 1 service as you press the Tuning Up button. 2. To tune to the secondary service, press and release the Select button. Most secondary services do not broadcast continually and if the selected service is not available, the radio will re-tune to the associat
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d. Signal error Displays the bit error rate for the currently tuned DAB station. d e. Station name Displays the station name being listened to. e f. Scrolling text Displays scrolling text messages such as artist/track name, phone in number, f etc. g. Programme type Displays the type of station being listened to e.g. Pop, Classic, News, etc. g h. Multiplex Name Displays the name of the DAB multiplex to which the current station belongs. h i.
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Finding new stations - DAB From time to time, new DAB radio stations may become available. Or you may have moved to a different part of the country. In this case you may need to cause your radio to scan for new stations. 1 1. Press and release the Menu button. 'MANUAL' will show on the display. 2. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons until the display shows 'SCAN'. 2 3. Press and release the Select button. Your radio will perform a scan of the Band III DAB channels. As new stations are fou
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Manual tuning - DAB Manual tuning allows you to tune your radio to a particular DAB frequency in Band III. Any new stations found will be added to the station list. This function can also be used to assist the positioning of the aerial or the clock radio to optimise reception for a specifi c channel or frequency. Note that 1 UK DAB stations are located in the range of channels 11B to 12D. 1. Press and release the Menu button so that the display shows 'MANUAL'. Press and release the Select b
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Dynamic Range Control (DRC) - DAB The DRC facility can make quieter sounds easier to hear when your radio is used in a noisy environment. 2 There are three levels of compression: DRC 0 No compression applied. (default) DRC 1/2 Medium compression applied. DRC 1 Maximum compression applied. 3 1. Press the On / Standby button to switch on your clock radio. 2. Press and release the Mode button until the DAB band is selected. 3. Press and release the Menu button. 'MANUAL' will show on the displa
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Operating your radio - FM auto-tune 1. Fully extend the wire aerial located on the rear of your clock radio. Place the wire antenna so that it is as straight as possible extending either above or below the clock radio. 2,10 2. Press the On / Standby button to switch on your clock radio. 3. Press and release the Mode button until the FM band is selected. 3 4. Press and hold down the Tuning Up button for 2 - 3 seconds to cause your radio to search from low frequency to high frequency and to sto
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Manual tuning - FM 1. Fully extend the wire aerial located on the rear of your clock radio. Place the wire antenna so that it is as straight as possible extending either above or below the clock radio. 2,7 2. Press the On / Standby button to switch on your clock radio. 3. Press and release the Mode button until the FM band is selected. 3 4. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons to tune to a station. The frequency will change in steps of 50kHz. If the radio is tuned to a station of suffi cient
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Display options - FM Your radio has a range of display options for FM mode:- a The Radio Data System (RDS) is a system in which inaudible digital information is transmitted in addition to the normal FM radio programme. RDS offers several useful features. The following are available on your clock radio. 1. Press and release the Select / Info button to cycle through the various 1 modes. b All display options except the text display will revert to the clock display after about 10 seconds. a.
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Presetting stations You may store your preferred DAB and FM radio stations to the preset station memories. There are 20 memory presets in your radio, 10 for DAB and 10 for FM. Presets are remembered by your radio in the event of a power failure. 1 The procedure for setting presets and using them to tune stations is the same for FM and DAB modes, and is described below. 1. Press the On / Standby button to switch on the clock radio. 2 2. Press the Mode button to select the desired waveband. 3
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Recalling a preset station 1. Press the On / Standby button to switch on the radio. 2. Press the Mode button to select the desired waveband. 2 3. Press and release the Preset button. The display will show, for example, 'Empty 1' if no station has been stored to that preset. If a preset has been stored, then the display will show either the station name (for DAB stations) or the frequency (for FM stations). 3 4. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons to select the desired preset station. 5. Pres
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Setting alarm times Your clock radio has two alarms which can be set to wake you to DAB, FM radio or beep type alarm. Each alarm can be set to sound once, daily, on weekdays or at weekends. The alarms can only be set when your clock radio is switched on. 1 Note: If no buttons are pressed for 1 minute, your clock radio will exit the alarm setup. To exit the alarm setup at any time, press and release the Menu button as needed. 2 1. Press the On / Standby button to switch on the clock radio. 2
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8. Press and release the Select button to enter the hour setting. The alarm minute digits will fl ash on the display. 9. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons to choose the desired alarm minute. 8-14 10. Press and release the Select button to enter the minutes setting. The alarm day option will fl ash on the display. 11. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons to choose the desired alarm day option: 9-15 Daily - Will sound everyday Once - Will sound at one time only Weekends - Will sound on
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16. Press and release the Select button to enter the alarm month setting. The alarm day will fl ash on the display. 17. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons to choose the alarm day. 18. Press and release the Select button to enter the setting. The alarm 16-20 source option will fl ash on the display. 19. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons to choose the desired alarm source (DAB, FM, BUZ). 17-19 20. Press and release the Select button to confi rm the alarm settings. 'SAVED' will show on the disp
