Creek classic tuner owners manual

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FRONT PANEL Front Panel Controls 1. Tuning / Pre-setsstation selection, by rotary control knob, is switched by the Modeselector. 2.Modeselector push button changes the function of the rotary control from tuning to pre-set station selection and back again. 3.Bandpush button selects FM, MW and LW for Europe, or FM/AM for North America and countries without LW. Custom frequencies and bands for other locations are factory set, but Creek dealers can re-programme them if you have to move to a different zone. 4.Search Up / Downpush button tunes up or down automatically, stopping on each usable station and rolling over at band ends. 5.Displaypush buttons allows a selection of display brightness settings, from off to fully bright. 6.Storeallows selected stations to be memorised by the tuner in pre-set channel locations, separately on each wavelength. 7.Display windowcontains frequency, channel and RDS Station ID, plus centre tuning information and all other function status in a highly visible green display. 8.Infra-Red sensorcan receive remote control (RC5) instructions of all functions. See remote control notes. 9.Standbyswitches the tuner from Standby to On and back again. REAR PANEL OPERATING THE CLASSIC TUNER Manual & Pre-set Operation The large control knob on the right side of the panel has two functions. First it will manually tune the radio up and down smoothly to receive stations on FM or AM displaying the frequency, band and centre tuning RDS station name, if transmitted, will also be displayed together with the stereo ST or mono status. Station ID The second function is to select Pre-Set stations from the tuners memory, acting like a rotary switch. The frequency of the station will be displayed for a few seconds and may be replaced with the station ID. The Pre-Set channel will only show when the tuner is in Pre-Set mode, selected by the MODE button (which toggles between the two functions). The T50 will remember the last tuned frequency, station ID or pre-set after switching off, so it can be restored when switching back on. Note:The last tuned station will only be remembered if it has been left unaltered for 1 minute before switching off. Frequency Pre-Set 5 4 7 8 1 2 6 3 9 Mains inlet and power switch Audio outputs Antenna inputs

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BAND SELECTION Two or three wave bands are available by repeatedly pressing the BANDbutton. It will toggle between FM, MW and LW, or between FM and AM, depending on the country of use. The wave band will be displayed for 2.5 seconds after the Band button is pressed. TUNING AND SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATOR When tuning across the band, the T50 indicates the presence of a station. If the station is not quite tuned in, arrows indicate the way the tuning knob should be turned to obtain centre tuning and lock. As the station is correctly tuned, the arrows change to a horizontal line. SEARCH UP AND DOWN Instead of tuning the radio manually with the tuning knob, SEARCH operation will automatically search UP and DOWN the band, looking for stations to be received with an acceptable background noise. It will stop on each one until asked to continue searching by pressing the UP or DOWN button again. SIGNAL STRENGTH To indicate the signal level of a given station, the display brightness is adjusted from Bright (high) to Dim (low). Use a good quality roof antenna for best results. STORE AND PRE-SETS To fill the T50s memory with your favoured stations, select Manual Tuning by pressing the MODEbutton and select the desired BAND. Either tune manually or use the search UP button to locate the station you wish to memorise. Press the STOREbutton once, briefly. The MEMORYindicator on the display will flash and the PRE-SETnumber will be displayed. If you wish to store the station in this address, press the STORE button firmly and hold until the MEMORYindicator stops flashing. If you prefer to allocate the station a different pre-set number, turn the tuning knob until the PRE-SET indicator displays the desired number and then press the STORE button as above. The T50 will now be ready to store another station and will attempt to place it in the next consecutive pre-set number address, should you wish to do so. Repeat as necessary to store your favoured stations in the memory. Return to standard operation by pressing the MODE button again. A maximum of 99 stations can be stored in FM, 29 in MW/AM and 6 in LW (Europe only). Only stored numbers will be displayed. CLEAR STATION MEMORY Individual stations can be over-written by selecting the pre-set number with the TUNING/PRE-SET knob. In order to clear all pre-sets to start again, press and hold the MODE button until CLEAR starts flashing. Then release and press and hold the MODE button once more until CLEAR becomes solid. Releasing the MODE button will blank the display temporarily and clear the memory of all pre-sets. Note: Any other button press or control knob turn or waiting more than 10 seconds while CLEAR is flashing will cancel the pending program action. DISPLAY The T50 can have four levels of display brightness. The levels are set by pushing the Display button repeatedly until the desired level is found. The available levels of brightness are: High (Default), Medium, Low and Off The display levels are held in the memory of the T50 and will be remembered if the tuner is powered off. If the tuner is working but there is no display, it could be that the display brightness level has been switched to off. If any button or the tuning knob is turned, the brightness level will be briefly restored to setting no. 1 and will then revert to the last setting.