Eton Traveler III User manual

OWNER’S MANUAL
The Go Anywhere, Hear Everything AM/FM/LW
and Shortwave Radio
TRAVELER III

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MEET THE TRAVELER III
Thank you for purchasing the Etón Traveler III. We want you to
thoroughly enjoy the use of this product. To take advantage of its
many excellent and unique features, we urge you to carefully read
the user’s manual.
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BACK

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Features:
1Speaker grill
2LCD panel
3Power/sleep button
4DISPLAY Mode/Lock button
5G.M.T. cover
6Up button
7Down button
8AM/LW button
9FM/RDS button
10 Snooze/Light button
11 Step button
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RIGHT SIDE LEFT SIDE
12 Whip Antenna
13 Back Stand
14 Battery compartment
15 Tuning dial
16 Volume knob
17 Earphone jack
18 DC jack
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POWER/SLEEP BUTTON
1. Short press to turn on radio and press again to turn off
2. Long press this button, the icon ashes in the LCD. Rotate
“Tuning” knob to select the desired auto shut-down time with
1~120 minutes.
3. Select “ON” indicates the radio will be on all the time.
Note: If the alarm is ringing,quick press this button to shut down alarm function.
DISPLAY MODE/LOCK BUTTON
Quick press to display Alarm, temperature,local/world time,signal
strength,S/N ratio
Long press: lock/unlock buttons and tuning knob
VF/VM FREQUENCY/ADDRESS,TUNING STEP BUTTON
With the radio on:
Quick press:Switch between frequency or address. When Switching
to Frequency, the “tuning” will ash; When switching to address, the
“Preset” will ash.
Long press to change tuning step fast or slow, uicon indicates slow
step, uu icon indicates fast step.
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Slow Step
uu
Fast Step
Band Slow tuning knob Fast tuning knob Slow tuning knob Fast tuning knob
FM 0.01MHZ 0.1MHZ 0.1MHZ 1MHZ
LW 1KHZ 3KHZ 3KHZ 100KHZ
MW 1KHZ 9/10KHZ 9/10KHZ 100KHZ
SW 1KHZ 5KHZ 5KHZ 100KHZ

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HOME BUTTON
Rotate “time zone indicator knob” to your city.
Long press “HOME” button,the hour will ash, rotate tuning knob to
change hour.
Short press Home button,the minute will ash,rotate tuning knob to
change minute. Quick press again to conrm local time.
ALARM - SETTING UP ALARM TIMER
The setting method is the same as local time setting,only the
difference is that the user needs to re-press ALARM button after re-
set alarm,then tune up TUNING knob to set up auto-power off timer
with the range of 1~90 minutes.
•Alarm method selection , Quick press ALARM button without
alarm timer setting. If icon ashes to activate alarm to radio
feature.
•With the radio on, rstly search your desired station which is used
for your favorite station for alarm,also set up the suitable volume.
•Long press ALARM button,when the user heard a “Beep”
sound,also icon ashes,the user can set up alarm by this station. If
the alarm is up,the unit will power on automatically and receive
preset station,then it will shut down automatically when it reaches
the desired time. During the listening, if the alarm is on,the unit will
switch to preset station automatically. If icon ahes indicates
alarm by buzzer, the following feature is new:
•If the user is not familiar with local station frequency and play
time, suggest to use alarm by buzzer. If the alarm is up, the unit will
have “Beep-Beep” sound and it will shut down with the preset time
automatically.

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•If the above icons don’t be displayed,which indicates the alarm is
off.
Note: Alarm timer matches the time of the indicator of time zone. If the user sets up the alarm is
on at 7:00 a.m.,and the time of time zone indicator will be New York time, the unit will be alarmed at
7:00 a.m. of New York time.
LIGHT/SNOOZE BUTTON
Quick press [Light/Snooze]button to select brightness level (OFF-
LOW-High)
If no operation, the brightness of backlight will light up your selected
level or turn off backlight in 10 minutes. If the backlight is off, when
the user operate any button,quick press to light up the backlight in
the rst time, quick press again means button operation.
SNOOZE FUNCTION:
The alarm is on, quick press Light/snooze button to shut down alarm
temporarily, the alarm will ring after 10 minutes. So the snooze
function can repeat 3 times. For alarm ringing in the 4th time, press
Light/Snooze button again to shut down alarm.
SHORTWAVE BAND/ AUTO DISPLAY BUTTON
With the radio on:
•Quick press [p]or [q] button to select SW band
•Continuously quick press [p]or [q] button to select SW meter band
•In Frequency auto-search status: long press[p]or [q] button to
auto-display station

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•In address search status, long press [p]or [q] button to auto-
display preset stations
AM/LW BAND/ATS BUTTON
With the radio on:
•Quick press[AM/LW]button select AM(MW) or LW band
•Long press [AM/LW] button to auto tuning stoarge AM(MW) or LW
band
FM RDS /ATS BUTTON
With the radio on:
•Quick press FM/RDS button to select FM band
•Long press FM RDS button to proceed with ATS function
RDS INFORMATION DISPLAY
In FM band, quick press FM RDS button to display different RDS
information in cycle.
If any RDS information in the LCD, icon will be displayed.
Quick press FM RDS button to display :PS/PTY/RT/DATA
PS : program name if no station, just display NO PS
PTY: Program type if no program,just display NO PTY
RT: Program text if no text, just display NO RT
DATA: Time/Date/Weekly program callsign information, if no any
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If any information available, just display format is:
NORTH AMERICA:
Station Callsign Weekday
(MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI, SAT, SUN)
Mon-Day-Year Hour:Minute
WGSS TUE 03-25-2014 02 :15
INTL:
Station Callsign Weekday
(MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI, SAT, SUN)
Mon,Day,Year Hour:Minute
WGSS TUE Mar,25,2014 02 :15
Note: If no station callsign, then display PI CODE of current station.
MEMORY BUTTON
With the radio on:
When pick up the station,quick press Memory button,then
will ash.
Rotate TUNING knob to nd the preset address and quick press
Memory button again to conrm preset.
QUICK PRESS [p] OR [▼]BUTTON AND MEMORY
PRESET BUTTON
Use ATS function to fast preset stations
1. When auto scan frequency, long press [p] or [q] button to auto
scan station.

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2. When pick up your favorite station,just quick press MEMORY
button once to save this station,and then auto scan other
stations.
DELETE BUTTON
Delete one station
With the radio on:
1. In address scan status,long press [delete] button, icon
will ash, also ”PXX DEL “ will ash in the LCD (XX indicates preset
address);
2. Release this button,rotate Tuning button to nd your desired
deleted address and frequency.
3. Quick press [DELETE] button to conrm delete.
Delete all stations
With the radio off:
Long press [delete] button for 2 seconds until the LCD displays “ALL
DEL” ashing, release this button and quick press this button again
to delete all preset stations.
With the radio on:
In address search status,long press [delete] for 2 seconds until LCD
displays “ALL DEL” ashing,release this button then quick press
[delete]button to delete all stations.
Quick press [p] or [q] button and DELETE button:
1. In address search status,long press [p] or [q] button to enter
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2. When the user nds unfavorite stations,just quick press DELETE
button to delete it then check the next one.
RESET BUTTON
Use a toothstick or other sharp stick to press RESET button to reset
the unit completely when the unit malfunction or down.
DST
If the user wants to use summer time, then the time will be 1 hour in
advance. i.e.“DST” =daytime summer time
TIME INDICATOR KNOB
After set up local time,rotate Time Indicator Knob, if the indicator is
at your desired time zone,the LCD will display the time of Time Zone.
- TUNING + KNOB
Rotate this knob to adjust time,frequency and preset address
When set up time, the user can use HOME or ALARM button to set
up clock
Rotate this knob to change frequency when tuning
Rotate this knob to select the preset address in preset address
mode.
- VOLUME + KNOB
Rotate this knob to change volume up or down.
Earphone Jack: 3.5mm
DC Jack