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frequency band (from high frequencies to
low frequencies).
Automatic tuning may not function proper-
ly if the station reception is weakened by
distance from the st ation or proximity to
tall buildings and hills.
T Selecting preset stations
Presetting a station wi th a preset button
allows you to select that station in a single
operation. Up to six AM, FM1 and FM2
stations each may be preset.
T How to preset stations
1. Press the “FM” or “AM” selection but-
ton to select AM, FM1 or FM2 reception.
2. Press the “ ” or “ ” side of the but-
ton or tune the radio manually until the de-
sired station frequency is displayed. 3. Press one of the preset buttons for at
least 1.5 seconds to store the frequency.
The frequency of the station will flash
once on the display at this time. If the but-
ton is pressed for less than 1.5 seconds,
the preceding selection will remain in
memory.
NOTE y If the connection between the radio
and battery is broken for any reason
such as vehicle maintenance or radio
removal, all stations stored in the pre-
set buttons are cleared. If this occurs,
it is necessary to reset the preset but-
tons.
y If a cell phone is placed near the ra-
dio, it may cause the radio to emit
noise when it receives calls. This noise
does not indicate a radio fault.
„ Built-in CD changer opera-
tion
NOTE y Make sure to always insert a disc
with the label side up. If a disc is insert-
ed with the label side down, it might be
ejected or the player might shut off.
y The player is designed to be able to
play music CD-Rs and music CD-RWs,
but it may not be able to play certain ones.
T How to insert a CD(s)
V Inserting a CD 0
1. Briefly press the “LOAD” button. If the
magazine in the player has an idle posi-
tion where you can insert a disc, the disc
number indicator associated with the idle
position will blink.
If no indicator blinks, it means that there is
no idle position in the magazine.
2. When the “LOAD” indicator flashes, in-
sert the disc. Once you have inserted the
disc, the “LOAD” indicator will go off. The
disc will then be automatically drawn in,
and the player will begin to play the first
track on the disc.
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– CONTINUED –peat Steps 1 and 2. The magazine will be
loaded with discs in t he ascending order
of position number.
If you do not insert any disc in 15 seconds
after you have pressed the “LOAD” but-
ton, the player will begin to play back the
first track of the last disc you have insert-
ed.
y The disc indicator steadily lights up if a
disc is already inserted in the correspond-
ing position of the magazine.
y While the player is in the loading mode,
if you press the “FM” or “AM” button, the
player will enter the standby mode. Press
the “CD” button to start playback.
V Inserting a disc in a desired position
1. Briefly press the “LOAD” button. If the
magazine in the player has an idle posi- tion where you can insert a disc, the disc
number indicator associated with the idle
position will blink.
The positions in the magazine the indica-
tor of which steadily lights up are already
loaded with discs.
2. Press the “Disc sele ct” button at the
position where you want to insert a disc.
3. When the “LOAD” indicator flashes, in-
sert the disc. Once you have inserted the
disc, the “LOAD” indicator will go off. The
disc will then be automatically drawn in,
and the player will begin to play the first
track on the disc.
y If you wish to insert another disc, repeat
the procedure beginning with step 1.
If you do not insert any disc in 15 seconds
after you have pressed the “LOAD” but- ton, the player will begin to play back the
first track of the last disc you have insert-
ed.
y While the player is in the loading mode,
if you press the “FM” or “AM” button, the
player will enter standby mode. Press the
“CD” button to start playback.
V Loading all the magazine (Full disc
loading mode) 0
1. If you continue to press the “LOAD”
button for more than 1.5 seconds, the
player will produce beep sound and will
enter the full disc loading mode.
2. When the disc number indicator and
“ALL LOAD” indicator start flashing, insert
a disc within 15 seconds. If a disc is suc-
cessfully loaded during this period, the
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and will steadily light.
3. When the loading of a disc is complete,
the next disc number indicator will blink.
Then repeat Step 2.
4. When the magazine is filled with discs
by repeating Steps 2 and 3, the player will
start playback of t he discs, beginning with
the one inserted first.
If you fail to insert any disc during each 15-
second interval , the full disc loading mode
will be canceled, and the player will start
playback of the disc inserted first.
T How to play back a CD or make a
pause
V When there is no CD inserted:
Insert a CD by referring to “How to insert a
CD(s)”.
When a CD is loaded, the player will start
playback of the CD, beginning with the
first track. V When there are CDs loaded:
Press a desired one of the “Disc select”
buttons the disc number indicator of which
steadily lights up. The player will then start
playback of the selected CD, beginning
with the first track.
If you have inserted a disc that the player
cannot read, the pl ayer will show the
elapsed time but will not produce any
sound. T To select a song from its beginning
V Forward direction
Briefly press the “ ” side of the TUNE/
TRACK button to skip to the beginning of
the next track. Each time this side of the
button is pressed, the indicated track
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– CONTINUED –V Backward direction
Briefly press the “ ” side of the TUNE/
TRACK button to skip to the beginning of
the current track. Ea ch time the button is
pressed, the indicated track number will
decrease. T Fast-forwarding an d fast-reversing
V Fast-forwarding
Press the “ ” side of the TUNE/TRACK
button continuously to fast-forward the
disc.
Release the button to stop fast-forward-
ing.
NOTE If you fast-forward past the last track
on the disc, the player will select the
first track on the disc and start playing
it. V Fast-reversing
Press the “ ” side of the TUNE/TRACK
button continuously to fast-reverse the
disc.
Release the button to stop fast-reversing.
NOTE If you fast-reverse to the beginning of
the first track on the disc, the fast-re-
versing will stop and the player will
start playing the first track on the disc.TUNE
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T Repeat playback
V To repeat the currently playing track
To repeat a track, press the “RPT” button
while the track is playing. The display will
show “RPT”, and the track will be repeat-
ed.
To cancel the track-repeat-play mode,
press the “RPT” button twice. The “RPT”
indication will go off, and the normal play-
back mode will be resumed.
NOTE y Each time you press the button, the
mode will change to the next one in the
following sequence. If you accidentally press the button
and cancel the track-repeat-play mode,
press it again to reselect the repeat
play mode.
y If you perform a fast-forward or fast-
reverse operation while the player is in
repeat-play mode, the repeat-play
mode will remain active even after you
skip tracks.
y If you perform a forward-direction or
backward-direction skip operation
while the player is in repeat-play mode,
the player will jump to the following/
previous track but the repeat-play
mode will remain active.
y The repeat-play mode will be can-
celled if you perform any of the follow-
ing steps:
y Press the “ ” or “ ” side of
the SEEK/SCAN button
y Press the “RPT” button.
y Press the “RDM” button
y Press the “ ” button
y Press the disc select button
y Select the radio mode
y Turn off the power of the audio
equipment.
y Turn the ignition switch to the
“OFF” position. V To repeat the currently playing disc
To repeat the currently playing CD, press
the “RPT” button twice while a track is
playing. The display will show “D-RPT”,
and the CD will be played repeatedly.
To cancel the disc repeat-play mode,
press the “RPT” button once more. The
“D-RPT” indication will go off, and the nor-
mal playback mode will be resumed.
NOTE y Each time you briefly press the but-
ton, the mode will change to the next
one in the following sequence.
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– CONTINUED –and cancel the disc-repeat-play mode,
press it again to reselect the disc-re-
peat-play mode.
y The disc-repeat-play mode will be
cancelled if you perform any of the fol-
lowing steps:
y Press the “ ” or “ ” side of
the SEEK/SCAN button
y Press the “RPT” button.
y Press the “RDM” button
y Press the “ ” button
y Press the disc select button
y Select the radio mode
y Turn off the power of the audio
equipment.
y Turn the ignition switch to the
“OFF” position.
T Random playback Press the “RDM” button while a disc is be-
ing played back to play all of the tracks on
the disc in a random order. The “RDM” in-
dicator will come on and all songs on the
disc will be played in a random order.
To cancel the random mode, press the
button again. Then the “RDM” indicator
goes out, and normal playback mode is
restored.
NOTE y Random playback will be cancelled if
you perform any of the following steps:
y Press the “RPT” button
y Press the “ ” or “ ” side of
the SEEK/SCAN button
y Press the “ ” button
y Press the disc select button
y Select the radio mode
y Turn off the powe r of the audio
equipment.
y Turn the ignition switch to the
“OFF” position.
y If you fast-forwar d the disc during
random playback, the player will can-
cel the fast-forwardi ng when the end of
the last track on the disc is reached
and will then return to the random play-
back mode. If you fast-reverse the disc
during random playback, the fast-re-
versing will be canceled as soon as the
beginning of the track being played is
reached. The player will then return to the random playback mode.
y If you perform a forward direction
skip while a track is being played in the
random playback mode, the player will
random select another track and play
it. If you perform a backward direction
skip, the disc will re turn to the begin-
ning of the currently playing track.
T Scan
The scan mode lets you listen to the first
10 seconds of each track on the disc in
succession. Press the “ ” side of the
SEEK/SCAN button to start scanning
through all tracks up ward beginning with
the track following the currently selected
one. Press the “ ” side of the button to
start scanning through all tracks down-
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the currently selected one. After all tracks
on the disc have been scanned, normal
playback mode is restored.
To cancel a scan, press the “ ” or “ ”
side of the button again.
NOTE The scan mode will be cancelled if you
perform any of the following steps:
y Press the “RPT” button
y Press the “RDM” button
y Select the radio mode
y Press the disc select button
y Press the “ ” button
y Turn off the power of the audio
equipment.
y Turn the ignition switch to the “OFF”
position.
T How to unload CDs from the player
V Ejecting a CD from the player
Of the discs loaded, you can select and re-
move only one disc. 0
1. Use the disc select button to select the
disc to be ejected.
2. Briefly press the “ ” button. The se-
lected disc will be ejected. The disc num-
ber indicator will flash at this time. When
you remove the ejected disc, the disc number indicator will go off.
To remove more discs in succession, re-
peat Steps 1 and 2.
V Ejecting all discs from the player
(All disc ejection mode) 0
1. If you continue to press the “ ” but-
ton, the player will produce beep sound
and will enter the all disc ejection mode. At
this time, the disc number indicator and
“ALL EJECT” indicator will flash.
2. Remove the disc that has been eject-
ed. The other discs loaded will then be
ejected one after another. If you do not re-
move the disc that has been ejected, the
“All disc ejection mode” will be canceled.
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make it fall out.
y If you press the “ ” button while
the player is in all disc ejection mode,
the mode will be cancelled following
ejection of the disc that is currently be-
ing ejected.
y If you press the “CD” button while
the player is in all disc ejection mode,
the player will draw in the discs that
have been ejected and play them.

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Type C audio set (if equipped)
The audio set will operate only when the ignition switch is in the “ACC” or “ON” positions. 500240PUSH POWER-VOL
SEEK
SCANFOLDER
TUNE
TRACKAUDIOMP3 6 CD CHANGER P-203UE
BAL RPTRDM
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– CONTINUED –„ Radio operationT Power switch and volume control
The dial is used for both power (ON/OFF)
and volume control. The radio is turned
ON and OFF by pushing the dial and the
volume is controlled by turning the dial.
The dial can also be used for tone and bal-
ance adjustment. T Tone and balance control
The volume control dial normally functions
as a volume control. This dial becomes a
control for Bass, Midrange, Treble, Fader
or Balance when you select the appropri-
ate tone and balance control mode.
Choose desired volume level for each
mode by turning the volume control dial.
The control function returns to volume
control mode after approximately 5 sec-
onds. V To change tone control modes
Each brief press of the “AUDIO” button
changes control modes in the following
sequence starting from volume control
mode. (When the radio is first turned on,
the control mode is in the volume control.)
The “AUDIO” button is used for selecting
the following control modes:PUSH POWER-VOL 500228 PUSH ON/VOL
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Volume
(VOLUME) Bass
(BASS) Midrange
(MIDDLE)
Treble
(TREBLE)