2001 FIAT BARCHETTA Radio Tape Player And External CD Manual

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To start the function, press theTAbutton [9]. If
the initial station is not enabled to provide traffic an-
nouncements (the message “TP”will not appear on
the display), the radio will automatically tune to the
closest station broadcasting traffic announcements
and the message “TA” will appear on the display.
Note: If no RDS TA stations can be received, the
system will continue the search indeterminately. To
stop the search, press the TAbutton [9] again.
If, on the other hand, a station has been found, the
system will turn to TAstand-by until the traffic an-
nouncement starts. In this case, the message TRA
INFOfollowed by PS(Programme Service name)
will appear on the display.
The playback of a CD or tape will be interrupted
to allow to listen to traffic announcements broadcast
by an RDS TA station.Press the TAbutton [9] during traffic announce-
ment broadcasting to stop listening to the an-
nouncement and the system will return to TA
stand-by mode.
To memorise stations with the TPfunction on,
follow the storage procedure described in the para-
graph “Manual station storage”.
Alternatively to manual storage, press the AS but-
ton [10] for 2 seconds or more to automatically
store the stations with the TP function on (see “Au-
tomatic storage”).
To turn the function off, press the TAbutton [9]
again.
EON (Enhanced Other Network) function
Circuits grouping stations enabled to broadcast
traffic announcements (NEWS) are available in
some countries.

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You can adjust the PTY-NEWSstation volume
as required, according to the procedure shown in
the next paragraph. The volume, consequently, can
change when the function is turned on/off.
Note: PTY-NEWS broadcasts are not available
in all countries. In TAstand-by, the RDS TA sta-
tions have priority over PTY-NEWSstations.
Emergency messages will interrupt all other oper-
ations. They can only be received from RDS sta-
tions. The message “ALARM”will appear on the
display and the message can be listened to.
To delete the“ALARM”broadcasts, press the
AF button [7]. In this case, the station programme enabled to
broadcast traffic announcements you are listening to
will be temporarily interrupted whenever traffic an-
nouncements are broadcast by other stations in the
network.
This function may not be available is some coun-
tries/regions.
PTY-NEWS function
This function tunes to a PTYprogramme broad-
casting NEWS.
Tune the sound system toFMband and press the
NEWSbutton [10] to turn the function on. The
message “NEWS”will appear on the display.
Reception of the tuned station will be temporarily
interrupted and a PTY NEWSstation will be
played. Press the NEWSbutton [10] again to re-
turn to the previous station.

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Pre-setting TA, emergency (ALARM) and
PTY-NEWS functions volume
You can adjust the volume for TA, ALARMand
PTY-NEWSfunctions as required.
During TA, ALARMand PTY-NEWS broad-
casts, the sound system volume will automatically
adapt to the pre-set volume level.
The factory setting is TA VOL 9.
Volume will not change if it is set to a higher level
duringTA, ALARM and PTY-NEWSbroadcasts.
If it is set to a level, it will change to the volume set
with the following procedure:
1. Press theTA button [9] for more than 2 sec-
onds. If the volume is not adjusted within the follow-
ing 7 seconds, the display will automatically return to
radio mode.
2.To adjust the volume, use the up/down buttons
[3].3. Press the TAbutton [9] to end the procedure.
TAPE PLAYER OPERATION
Insert a tape in the desk facing rightwards. Play-
back will start automatically.
Correct equalisation of the player will be per-
formed according to the type of tape used (e.g.
chromium or metal tapes).
At the end of the tape, the other side of the tape
will be played automatically.
To change tape side before the end, press the
PROG button [17].

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H: Press this button to fast forward the tape
G:Press this button to rewind the tape.
The radio will be turned on while the tape is being
fast forwarded/rewound.
Last/next track search (Auto Program
Control function)
Press the left/right button [18] twice.
H: Press this button twice to go to the beginning
of the next track
G: Press this button twice to return to the begin-
ning of the track being played. Press the button again
to go to the beginning of the last track.
During automatic search, the radio will be played. Playing an inserted tape
Press the FUNCbutton [2] to select tape mode.
Playback will start automatically.
Pause function
Press the play / pause button [14] to stop playback
temporarily. Press it again to start playback again.
Ejecting a tape
Press the eject button [5], to eject the tape auto-
matically.
The system will switch to radio mode automatical-
ly 4 seconds after pressing the eject button.
Fast forward/reverse
Press the left / right button [18].

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Scanning tape tracks (forward)
Press the SCN button [6] to play the first 10 sec-
onds of each track on the tape. The message
“SCAN” will appear on the display. Press theSCN
button [6] again to stop the scan.
Repeat track
Press the RPTbutton [8] to play the last track
again. The message “RPT”will appear on the dis-
play. To quit this mode, press the RPTbutton again
[8].
Dolby B noise reduction function
Press the Dolby B NR[15] to start the function.
The message“B NR”will appear on the display.
Press the button again to turn the function off.Skip blank tape function
This function will skip blank tape sections lasting
for longer than 12 seconds and automatically start
playing the next recorded section.
To turn the function on, press the BLSbutton
[13] until the message“BLS”appears on the dis-
play. Press the button again to turn the function off.
Note:
In some cases, the following functions may not
work correctly:
– next/last track search
– track scan
– repeat track
– skip blank tape.

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CD PLAYER
The sound system can be connected to a compati-
ble CD player (CD Changer).
Loading the CD magazine
Make sure that label A-fig. 3is the right way up,
otherwise the CD player will not work.
The magazine can hold up to six discs.
Fitting the disc magazine in the player
Open flap fig. 2. This can be caused by:
– low level recordings (weak sounds and not per-
fect recording)
– tapes containing conversations
– tapes with blank sections lasting less than 12 sec-
onds
– tapes with long periods of silence in the record-
ings
– tapes without blank sections (e.g. live record-
ings)
– tapes with a lot of noise in the blank sections

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Insert CD magazinefig. 4completely into the
player with the label (see arrows) facing upwards.
Close the flap after having inserted the CD loader,
to prevent dust or other small objects from getting
into the player.
P5S10011
fig. 2
P5S10012
fig. 4
P5S10015
fig. 3

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Pause
Press the play /pause button [14] to temporally in-
terrupt playback. Press it again to start playback.
Disc selection
Press the next disc button [4]: The discs will be se-
lected in the following order each time the button is
pressed: 1➞2 ➞3 ➞4 ➞5 ➞6 ➞1 …
Alternatively, press the last disc button [16]: to se-
lect discs in the following order: 1➞6 ➞5 ➞4 ➞
3 ➞2 ➞1…
Track selection
Press the left / right button [18].
H: Press this button twice to go to the beginning
of the next track.
G: Press this button twice to go to the beginning
of the track being played. Press this button again to
go the previous track. Removing the disc magazine from the player
Open flap fig. 2. Press eject button A-fig. 2on the
player. The magazine will be partially ejected.
Pull out the magazine carefully.
Close the sliding door.
Removing CD’s from the magazine
Pull out the CD’s one at a time, by pressing the
lever next to each CD.
Playback
Press the FUNCbutton [2] to select CD mode.
The system will start playing the first CD in the mag-
azine.