Loewe Concept 1700 - Locating Stations via Station Search; Fine-Tuning Reception; Direct Channel Number Entry; Naming and Storing Programmes

Locating TV stations with “Station
Search’
Depress the ®) button. The set searches
in turn in the “VHF/FM band‘, then in
the special channel band for stations,
running through the channel numbers.
The station search run stops as soon as
a Station is found. If the transmitted
signal is weak or if the picture has
“ghosts start the search run again by
pressing the ®) button.
If picture and sound are of optimum
quality, please read further in section
“Naming and storing TV programmes“. If
an optimum picture and sound quality
has not yet been achieved, fine tuning
can be carried out as follows.
Fine tuning.
The exact station frequencies are stored
in this set and will be maintained
exactly during “Station Search“ and with
direct channel input. Normally you will
not need to carry out fine tuning. It may.
only be necessary to carry out fine
tuning if reception is poor, e.g. with non-
standard converters in community
antenna systems or with the video
recorder station if playback takes place
via the antenna socket. Adjust for the
optimum sound and picture quality as
follows:
Select the menu point.‘‘Fine* with the
yellow arrow buttons . The normal
fine tuning value is “Fine 00. Tune to
an “oversharp" picture with the ©
button, to an “unsharp“ picture with the
© button. If the fine tuning value 56
(UHF, 64) is exceeded, however, you will
already be tuning in the next higher or
next lower channel. Therefore watch the
displayed channel number during
tuning.
Direct input of TV channel numbers.
Assuming that you know the channel
band and channel numbers of the TV
stations which can be received by you:
1. Move the yellow_cursor with the
yellow buttons @, @ to menu point
“Range“.
2. Select the desired channel band
using the © or © buttons, e.g.
“V/UHF" or “S-Chan“ for the special
channel band.
3. Move the yellow_cursor with the
yellow buttons @, @ to menu point
“Channel ...".
4, Enter the channel number as a
2-digit figure using the numeric keys
0 - 9, e.g. for channel 7 simply 07,
etc.
Note:
On cable systems, stations can be
received both in-the VHF band
(V/UHF) and in the special channel
band (S-Chan).
Channel designations in other countries.
The channel designations are different in
the various standards and in some other
countries. In some countries, the
channels are designated with letters. For
direct channel input, enter the channel
number according to the table “Channel
designations and displays in other
standards and countries“ at the end of
this manual.
Naming and storing TV programmes.
You are now receiving a programme. You
will almost certainly also already have
found out which TV programme it is you
are receiving, e.g. from the TV magazine
or newspaper. In order to maintain an
overview at all times which TV
programme you are selecting with which
programme number, it is also possible
to assign a programme name with up to
5 characters to each programme
number. Move the yellow cursor using
the yellow buttons Y), to the_menu
point “Name. Hold the © or © key
pressed and all the letters of the
alphabet, the “+‘ character, a “blank“
and the digits O to 9 will appear in turn.
By briefly pressing the © or © key, it
is now possible to select the “B“ e.g.
for the name BBC. Press the ® key
and a question mark ? will appear at
the second position and you can select
the second character of the name, e.g.
“B“ Pressing the ® key again calls up
the 3rd digit, etc.
39