Operation Manual

IR3000DAB / English Instruction Manual
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To start a scan manually, select Menu > Scan.
Once the scan is complete, the radio shows a list of available stations.
A question mark before a station in a list indicates that the station is currently unavailable Depending
on the cause of the loss of signal this may be only temporary.
Stations that are unlikely to be available again (for example you have moved out of the broadcast
range of a station), can be removed from the station list.
To remove stations that are listed but unavailable, select Menu > Prune invalid.
7.2 Selecting stations
To listen to or change a station, turn the Select control a list of stations from which you can select is
presented. Stations listed with a ? question mark in front of them are not available.. Once selected,
the station plays and the screen shows information about the station, track or show broadcast by the
station.
Alternatively, pressing either the Fast Forward or Rewind keys, jumps to the next station up or down
in the station list.
Preset stations can be stored and recalled as described in Presets.
7.3 Now playing information
While the stream is playing, the screen shows its name and DLS Dynamic Label Segment
information broadcast by the station giving real-time information such as programme name, track title
and contact details. Stereo broadcasts are indicated with an icon at the top of the screen. To view
further information, press Info.
Each time you press Info , another set of information is displayed, cycling through DLS text
programme type, ensemble name/frequency, signal strength/error rate, bit rate/codec/channels
today's date and DL Plus (if available).
7.4 Settings
Dynamic range compression
Some DAB broadcasts offer dynamic range compression (DRC). This feature allows adios to
compress the dynamic range of the output audio stream, so that the volume of quiet sounds is
increased , and the volume of loud sounds is reduced is reduced useful if you are listening to music
with a high dynamic range in a noisy environment (for example, classical music while cooking).
To change the DRC of this unit , select Menu >DRC and then DRC high DRC low or DRC off.
Note: This unit 's DRC setting does not have any effect if DRC data is not included in the broadcast.