Traffic Interrupt Feature

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Whenever the TA icon is displayed, the current FM station may also broadcast traffic announcements. Traffic announcements are reports of the current traffic conditions in the listening area of the tuned FM broadcasters.

Your radio can interrupt the playback of a compact disc by use of the traffic interrupt feature. The traffic interrupt feature is enabled when the TRAF icon is displayed.

If the broadcaster sends out a traffic announcement while you are listening to FM or in the playback mode, TRAFFIC will be displayed on the radio and the audio from the broadcaster will be heard. At the conclusion of the traffic announcement, the radio will return to the previous playback mode.

During the time the radio displays TRAFFIC, you can adjust the volume of the traffic announcement. This will be the volume at which all future traffic announcements will be heard until the volume during another traffic announcement is adjusted.

You can also interrupt a traffic announcement interrupt by pressing the TRAF button.

During a national or local emergency, a special program type interrupt message ALERT! is displayed. This special announcement will cancel all other RDS features that are in progress, such as a traffic announcement.