TURNING THE PL-600 ON AND OFF VOLUME AND TONE CONTROLS
The volume control (31), labeled
The PL-600 can be turned on by the two
VOLUME, is located on the right side of
methods shown below. To turn it off, press
the radio. To change the volume, rotate
the POWER/SLEEP button (1).
the volume control knob. The tone control
(24), on the left side of the radio is
1. BATTERY SAVER/TIMER METHOD:
labeled TREBLE/BASS. Use the position
Perform a quick, short press of the
producing the sound that you like best.
POWER/SLEEP button (1). This turns the
radio on with 30 in the display and causes
USING EARPHONES
the radio to shut off automatically after 30
Earphones/headphones with a 1/8 inch
minutes. The sleep timer symbol
stereo plug can be used. Plug them into
, , also appears in the display. To
the earphone socket (25) on the left side
change the automatic shut off time from
of the radio.
30 minutes to the number of minutes-to-
play of your preference, use the UP or SELECTING FM, MW, LW OR
DOWN buttons (9, 10) immediately after SHORTWAVE
When listening to FM or shortwave, fully
turning on the radio. This allows selection
extend the telescopic antenna (5). It need
of 1~120 minutes of playtime before
not be extended when listening to MW or
automatic shut-off occurs. The number of
LW stations. After turning on the PL-600,
minutes that you last set is also used the
perform quick, short presses of the
next time the radio is turned on.
'FM/MW -ATS' button (15) to select FM or
2. TIMER-DEFEAT METHOD:
MW. To select SW press the 'SW METER
This method defeats the automatic
BAND' button (16). Each sequential press
minute timer and causes the radio to stay
of the SW METER BAND button or of the
on until deliberately turned off, until the
UP or DOWN buttons places the radio at
batteries drain or indefinitely if used with
the beginning of a specific shortwave
an AC adaptor. Hold down the POWER
meter band. The frequency digits (43)
button for about 3 seconds, then release.
appear toward the center portion of the
Note that 'On' appears in the display and
display. The local stations of the area that
that the sleep timer symbol does not
you are currently in will be heard on MW
appear when this method is used.
and FM, while shortwave stations from
around the world can be heard on SW.
SIGNAL STRENGTH AND BATTERY
You can also select LW by press the
STRENGTH INDICATOR
'FM/MW/LW' button (15). Before using
LW, you should activate the LW function
When the radio is turned off, the upper
via the SYSTEM SET CODE, see the
left corner of the display (6) shows battery
SYSTEM SET CODE TABLE.
strength. When the radio is turned on, the
antenna symbol (38) and the 1-5 scale
NOTE: If you are new to shortwave, see
shows relative signal strength.
the special shortwave sections later in
this manual.
4 BASIC RADIO OPERATION
SL EEP
6 WORKING WITH MEMORY
At the factory, the PL-600 is set up with numeric keypad to enter the page or
use the tuning knob to change the
10 pages of memory (from 01~10), each
page.
page holding 50 frequencies plus 100
3. Press/release the PAGE button to
frequency memory in P0. This enables
finalize the page change.
storing of 600 frequencies into memory.
Memory setting of 01~10 can be changed
ACCESSING WHAT IS STORED INTO
and tailored to your personal needs or
MEMORY
can be left as is. When first learning to
There are three ways to access what has
store stations into memory, we suggest
been stored into memory: Direct Memory
using the factory setting. To change the
Access, Manual Memory Search and
factory setting, see the section
Memory Auto-scan. These three methods
CUSTOMIZING MEMORY PAGES. When
are described below. When the memory
working with memory, the term PRESET
page and memory preset numbers
appears in the display under the memory
appear in the upper right corner of the
numbers.
display, as it will in the descriptions below,
the radio is in MEMORY ACCESS MODE.
This mode can be exited any time with a
STORING STATIONS INTO MEMORY
press/release of the FREQ/PRESET
1. Turn on the radio.
button (11).
2. Tune to the desired station.
3. Press/release the MEMORY button
If you first need to change memory
(18). Note that the memory number
pages, see the previous section,
digits, labeled PRESET (46) flash in
the upper right corner of the display. SELECTING/CHANGING MEMORY
The memory page number, labeled
PAGES.
PAGE, also appears, but does not
flash.
DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS
4. Within 5 seconds use the numeric
Use the numeric keypad to key-in the
keypad to enter the memory number
memory number. For example, if the
that you wish to store the station into.
desired radio station is in memory
For memories 1-9, enter the numbers
number 01, just press '0', then '1', and it
as 01~09.
will go to memory 01.
5. Within 5 seconds press the MEMORY
button, or wait 5 seconds. This finalizes
MANUAL MEMORY SEARCH
storing into memory and after a few
Manual Memory Search enables manual
seconds, the upper right corner's
searching through the memories within a
display returns to show the clock.
memory page, as shown below:
SELECTING/CHANGING MEMORY
1. Press/release the FREQ/PRESET (11)
PAGES
button.
To select/change memory pages:
2. Use quick, short presses on the UP or
1. Press/release the PAGE button (12).
DOWN buttons or use the tuning knob
The page number flashes in the
to search through the memories.
display.
2. Within 3 seconds, use either the UP or
3. Press the FREQ/PRESET button when
DOWN button to change to the page of
finished.
your choice. Alternately, use the
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