User manual SANGEAN PR-D8

[. . . ] Remove the battery cover on the back of the unit by sliding the cover to the OPEN direction. Make sure the batteries are inserted with correct polarity as shown inside the battery compartment. Important: When using alkaline batteries, the battery switch must be placed in the alkaline position. Failure to do so could result serious damage to the batteries or radio. [. . . ] Press and continue to hold down the power button for more than 2 seconds, followed by a beep, the display will cycle through the available sleep timers in the order of 60-45-30-15-120-90-60. Release the power button when the required sleep timer appears in the display. To cancel the sleep function, simply press the power button. Another option is you can also set LCD brightness by pressing and releasing the button to select bright, brighter, brightest and off. While the radio is switched off, press and hold band/step button for approximately 5 seconds, display will show 12H, continue pressing tuning up/down button for another 5 seconds, display will flash 12H. By pressing tuning up/down button to select 24 hour format, complete the setting by pressing band/step button. Tuning steps in some countries are different from where you purchase the radio. If you buy the radio in Europe and intend to use in North America or South America, you may have to adjust the tuning step so, the radio may continue to serve you well. Upon resetting to the 12H/24H format the display will show FM and flash 50 kHz (tuning step) followed by a beep. By pressing the up/down tuning button, you may adjust it to100 kHz per tuning step then press band/step button again to complete FM tuning step reset. The display will show MW and flash 9 kHz after performing the FM tuning step reset. by pressing tuning up/down button , you may adjust to 10 kHz per tuning step. By simply pressing the band/step button now the setting is completed. 5 mm headphone jack located on the left hand of your radio is provided for use with either headphones or an earpiece. The radio can be used as a separate tuner by connecting the input to Hi-Fi system, or using this input to make recording in stereo from audio program. The lock switch is used to prevent unintentional operation of the radio. The power and all other buttons will be disabled. This will prevent accidental operation when the radio is packed in a suitcase or carrying a pouch. To release the lock switch, simply move the switch to OFF position, the LOCK icon will be disappear from the display. The tone control switch is to adjust sound effect according to the program you are listening or playing back. Switch to Music position while you are listening to a music program and switch to news position while you are listening and playing back the recording from your voice. The PR-D8 is capable of recording selected audio program into an SD card on an MP3 format at selectable recording on and off time. [. . . ] When the Power is on and on SD mode, press and release the menu button, the display will show Record Setup and System Setup. Record Setup ­ Press Play/Pause button again to enter Recording quality selection, by pressing up or down button to select recording quality to be 64kbps or 128 kbps or 192 kbps. Press and release up or down button to select the set up of LCD contrast, system information, format and reset. B) System Information ­ press and release Play and Pause button to see the total and free SD card capacity. [. . . ]