Sangean RCR-22 User manual

RCR-22
Version 1
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Read these instructions.
Keep these instructions.
Heed all warnings.
Follow all instructions.
Do not use this apparatus near water.
Clean only with dry cloth.
Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance
with the manufacturer’s instructions.
Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat
registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including ampliers) that
produce heat.
Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or grounding-
type plug. A polarized plug has two blades with one wider
than the other. A grounding type plug has two blades and
a third grounding prong. The wide blade or the third prong
are provided for your safety. If the provided plug does not fit
into your outlet. Consult an electrician for replacement of the
obsolete outlet.
Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched
particularly at plugs, convenience receptacles, and the point
where they exit from the apparatus.
Important safety instructions
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Only use attachments/accessories specified by the
manufacturer.
Use only with the cart, stand, tripod, bracket, or table specied
by the manufacturer, or sold with the apparatus. When a cart is
used, use caution when moving the cart/apparatus combination
to avoid injury from tip-over.
Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or when unused
for long periods of time.
Refer all servicing to qualified service personnel. Servicing is
required when the apparatus has been damaged in any way,
such as power-supply cord or plug is damaged. liquid has been
spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus
has been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate
normally, or has been dropped.
To Reduce the Risk of Fire or Electric Shock, Do not Expose
This Appliance To Rain or Moisture.
The Shock Hazard Marking and Associated Graphical Symbol
is provided on the rear of unit.
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Apparatus shall not be exposed to dripping or splashing and no
objects lled with liquids, shall be placed on the apparatus.
Excessive sound pressure on ear- and headphones could
impair the hearing ability. Higher setting that idle on the
equalizer leads to higher signal voltages on the output for ear
and headphones.
The power plug should be close to the radio, and easy to be
approached that during the emergency, to disconnect the power
from the radio, just unplug the power plug from the AC power
slot.
Where the MAINS plug or an appliance coupler is used as the
disconnect device, the disconnected device shall remain readily
operable.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
To comply with the FCC RF exposure compliance requirements,
no change to the antenna or the device is permitted. Any
change to the antenna or the device could result in the device
exceeding the RF exposure requirements and void user’s
authority to operate the device.
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Controls
Menu button
Preset button
Tuning up / down button / Snooze button
Band / Select button
Time capsule
Date button
Time button
Alarm 2 button
Alarm 1 button
Display
Power button / Sleep button
Nap button
Info button
Light button
Reset button
Light level control
Aux in socket
Headphone socket
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LCD display
Time and frequency indicator
Radio-controlled time signal
RDS indicator
Sleep / Snooze indicator
Nap indicator
Alarm 1 with buzzer alarm indicator
Alarm 1 with radio alarm indicator
Alarm 2 with buzzer alarm indicator
Alarm 2 with radio alarm indicator
FM stereo indicator
Signal level indicator
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Using the clock radio for the rst time
1. Place your clock radio on a at surface.
2. Fully extend the wire aerial located on the rear of your clock radio.
Place the wire antenna so that it is straight as possible extending
either above or below the radio.
3. Insert the adaptor plug into the AC socket located on the rear of
your clock radio. The display will show "time zone" for a few
seconds and then the display will ask you to set your time zone.
To set the time zone, press the Tuning up/down button and the
Select button to conrm. Your clock radio will show _ _: _ _ on the
display and the indicator will ash. The radio will scan for signal
and if a signal is found and received completely it will then show
on the screen without ashing. Now the radio will show the
current time.
4. If no signals are found, will be ashing on the display. It may
be necessary to relocate your clock radio to a position giving better
reception.
IMPORTANT:
The mains adaptor is used as the means of connecting the clock
radio to the mains supply. The mains socket used for the clock
radio must remain accessible during normal use. In order to
disconnect the radio from the mains completely, the mains adaptor
should be removed from the mains socket outlet completely.
Characters appearing on the LCD display indicates the clock radio
is connected to and powered from the mains supply.

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Clock
Manual clock setting (only if automatic setting fails)
1. Press and hold the Time button to enter the clock setting, and
the hour digits will ash on the display.
2. Press the Tuning up or down button to adjust the hours. Then
press the Band/Select button to conrm the setting. The minute
digits will ash on the display.
3. Press the Tuning up or down button to adjust the minutes. Then
press the Band/Select button to confirm the setting. Now the
clock setting is completed.
Manual date setting (only if automatic setting fails)
1. Press and hold the Date button to enter the date setting and then
the year digits will ash.
2. Press the Tuning up or down button to adjust the year. Then
press the Band/Select button to conrm the setting. The month
digits will ash.
3. Press the Tuning up or down to adjust he month. Then press the
Band/Select button to conrm the setting. The date digits will ash.
4. Press the Tuning up or down button to adjust the date. Then
press the Band/Select button to conrm the setting. Now the time
setting is completed.

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Change 12/24 hour clock format
1. Press the Menu button to enter the setting.
2. Press the Tuning up or down button until ‘CLOCK 24H’ is highlighted
on the display. Press the Band/Select button to enter the setting.
3. Press the Tuning up or down button to choose 12/24 hour clock
format. Press Band/Select button to conrm the setting.
Change date format
1. Press the Menu button to enter the setting.
2. Press the Tuning up or down until date format is highlighted on
the display. Press the Band/Select/button to enter the setting.
3. Press the Tuning up/down button to choose your desired format.
Press Band/Select button to conrm the setting.
D.S.T. (Daylight Saving Time)
1. Press the Menu button to enter the menu setting.
2. Press the Tuning up or down button until ‘DST OFF’ is appeared
on the display. Press the Band/Select button to enter the setting.
3. Press the Tuning up or down button to choose ‘+1H’ (activated
D.S.T.) or ‘OFF’. Then press the Band/Select button to conrm
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Radio operation
Tuning into radio stations
There are 3 ways of tuning your radio:
A. Manual tuning
1. Press the Power button to turn on your radio.
2. Press the Band button repeatedly to select AM (MW) or FM
waveband.
3. Press the Tuning up or down button to change the frequency.
B. Scan tuning
1. Press the Power button to turn on your radio.
2. Press the Band button repeatedly to select AM (MW) or FM
waveband.
3. Press and hold the Tuning up or down button. Your radio will
scan in an upwards direction (low frequency to high frequency)
or downwards direction (high frequency to low frequency) and
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C. Presetting and recalling stations
Presetting stations:
1. Press the Power button to turn on your radio.
2. Press the Band button repeatedly to select AM (MW) or FM
waveband.
3. Tune into the station that you would like to preset following the
steps above.
4. There are 7 preset buttons from 1 to 7. Press and hold one of
preset buttons until the radio beeps, and the station frequency
will be saved into the chosen preset.
5. Repeat the procedure for the remaining presets. Your radio has
7 presets for each AM and FM.
6. The preset can be overwritten by following the above steps.
Recalling stations:
1. Press the Band button for AM or FM.
2. Press and release one of the PRESET buttons (from 1 to 7) and
the preset number and frequency will appear on the display.

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Setting up the tuning step increment
1. Press the Menu button to enter the menu setting when the radio
source is in AM/FM mode.
2. Press the Tuning up or down button until FM xxkHz or AM xxkHz
appears on the display, and press the Band/Select button to
enter the step increment setting.
3. Press the Tuning up/down button to select 50kHz/100kHz for
FM radio, and 9kHz/10kHz for AM radio. Then press the Band/
Select button to conrm the setting.
Note:
If the unit is bought in Russian areas, FM step options will be
50kHz/10kHz.
Display modes - FM
Your radio has four display modes for FM radio. These use data
provided by broadcasters which is commonly known as RDS.
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
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1. Press the Info button to cycle through the various modes.
a. Station name Displays the name of the station being
listened to.
b. Programme Type Displays the type of station being
listened to e.g. Pop, Classic, News, etc.
c. Radio text Displays radio text message such as,
new item etc.
If there is no RDS data available (or if the signal is too weak) then
the radio will display only the FM frequency.
Setting the clock time
Radio-controlled clock
There are three options to set up the clock time:
Radio-controlled clock, FM Radio Data System (RDS) and Manual
setting. When the unit is rst plugged in, the radio will automatically
synchronize its clock time with the Radio-controlled clock signal
received while the radio is in power off mode.
1. To set up the clock time using the Radio-controlled clock function,
press the Menu button when the unit is in power off mode.
2. Press the Tuning up/down button until a clock symbol appears
on the display. Press the Band/Select button to enter the menu setting.

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3. Press the TUNING up/down button until DCF77 (European version),
WWVB (US version) or JJY40/60 (Japan version) appeared on
the display. Press the Band/Select button to conrm the setting.
And the clock time of the radio will set up automatically to the
Radio-controlled clock time.
4. If the radio-controlled clock signal is being received by the radio,
the radio-controlled time icon will ash on the display at an
internal of 1 second. If the radio is not receiving any radio-controlled
clock signal, the radio-controlled time icon will ash at an interval
of 3 seconds.
5. The radio will synchronize its clock time on the hour. If the radio
time has been synchronized with radio-controlled clock time, the
radio-controlled time icon will stay on the LCD display and the
radio will keep synchronizing its clock time every odd hour on
the hour. If the radio is receiving the radio-controlled clock signal
but is not yet synchronized to the radio-controlled clock time, it
will synchronize its clock time at every hour on the hour.
Note:
Radio Data System (RDS)
When you set the clock time using the RDS function, your radio will
synchronize its clock time whenever it tunes to a radio station using
RDS with CT signals.
1. When tuning to a station transmitting RDS data, press the Menu
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2. Press the Tuning up/down button until a clock symbol appears
on the display. Press the Band/Select button to enter the setting.
3. Press the Tuning up/down button until RDS CT (or ‘RBDS CT’ in
the US ) appears on the display. Press the Band/Select button
to confirm the setting. The clock time of the radio will set up
automatically according to the RDS data received.
4. When the action is completed, the RDS icon will appear on
the LCD display indicating the radio time is RDS clock time. The
radio cock time will be valid for 24hours each time the radio time
is synchronized with RDS CT.
Manual setting
When choosing manual setting as the clock time setting of your
radio, the radio-controlled clock and Radio Data System (RDS)
function will both be disabled.
1. Press the Menu button.
2. Press the Tuning up/down button until a clock symbol appears
on the left side of the display, then press the Band/Select button
to enter the setting. Press the Tuning up/down button until ‘MANUAL’
appeared on the display, then press the Band/Select button to
select the setting.
3. Then follow the steps described in the section of ‘Manual clock
setting’ to set the clock time manually.

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Alarm operation
There are two alarms which can each be set to wake you to AM/
FM radio or buzzer alarm. The alarms may be set while the unit
is in standby mode or while playing. When the alarm light is on, it
means the indicated alarm will active in 24 hours. Ensure that the
time is set correctly before setting the alarms.
1. Before setting an alarm ensure the clock time is set. Press and
hold any of the Alarm button to enter the alarm setting (e.g. Alarm 1
button to enter the alarm 1 setting).
2. The hour setting of alarm 1, for example, will begin to flash.
Press the Tuning up/down button to select the required alarm
hour, and press the Band/Select button to confirm the setting.
Press the Tuning up/down button to select the required alarm
minute, and press the Band/Select button to conrm the setting.
3. Then the display will show the frequency options for the alarm.
Press the Tuning up/down button to select the desired option
and press the Band/Select button to conrm the setting.
The alarm options are as follows:
ONCE – the alarm will sound once
DAILY – the alarm will sound everyday
WEEKDAY – the alarm will sound only on weekdays
WEEKEND – the alarm will sound only at weekends

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4. Press the Tuning up/down to choose the required alarm type, and
then press the Band/Select button to conrm the setting. The alarm
can be set to buzzer, FM or AM. When radio mode is selected,
the radio frequency and the preset number on the display will
begin to ash. Press the Tuning up/down to adjust the required
radio frequency or the required preset number for the radio alarm,
then press the Band/ Select button to conrm the setting.
5. Press the Tuning up/down to select the required alarm volume
and press the Band/Select button to conrm the setting. The alarm
has now been set. Symbol for active alarm (such as or )
is shown on the display.
When the alarm sounds
When the buzzer alarm activates, the alarm will start softly and
gradually increase in level. It will sound for 1 minute and silence
for 1 minute in repetition for 60 minutes unless cancelled. When
the other alarm types are set, the radio will sound non-stop at the
selected time for up to 60 minutes.
When the radio alarm is activated, the alarm will go off in Humane
Waking System. It will increase its volume in 0.5increments from 0
to your set volume.
To deactivate a sounding alarm, press the Standby button to cancel
a sounding alarm.
Disabling / cancelling alarm setting
To cancel the alarm setting, press and hold the corresponding
alarm button before the alarms sound off.

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Snooze
1. When the alarm sounds, press any button other than the Standby
button will silence the alarm for 5 minutes. “ ’ will appear on
the display.
2. To adjust the silence time for the snooze timer, press the Menu
button to enter the menu setting.
3. Press the Tuning up/down until “SNOOZE X” shown on the
display, then press the Band/Select button to enter the setting.
Press the Tuning up/down button to adjust the silence time. There
are 5, 10, 15 and 20 minutes for the snooze timer. Press the
Band/Select to conrm the setting.
4. To cancel the snooze timer while the alarm is suspended, press
the Standby button.
Sleep timer - radio auto shut off
Your radio can be set to turn off automatically after a preset time
has elapsed. The Sleep Timer setting can be adjusted between
15,30, 45, 60, 90 and 120 minutes.
1. Press and hold the Standby button to enter the Sleep Timer
setting. “SLEEP XX” will show on the display.
2. Keep holding the Standby button and the Sleep Timer options
will start switching on the display. Stop until the desired Sleep
Timer setting appears on the display. The setting will be saved
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3. Your radio will switch off automatically after the preset Sleep
Timer has elapsed. The Sleep Timer icon will show on the
display indicating an active Sleep Timer.
4. To cancel the Sleep Timer function before the preset time has
elapsed, simply press and release the Standby button to turn the
unit off manually.
Nap timer
1. Press the Nap timer button to enter the menu setting. Keep holding
the Nap timer button and the options will start switching on the
display from 5 to 120 minutes. Stop until the required Nap Timer
setting appears on the display. The setting will be saved and the
LCD will return to normal display with the ‘NAP’ icon shown on
the display.
2. To view the remaining time of an active timer setting, press the
Nap timer button. To cancel a sounding Nap timer, press Standby
button. If any button other than the Standby button is pressed
when the alarm sounds, snooze function will be activated. To cancel
the function when countdown is progressing, go to nap timer
setting menu and select ‘OFF’.