Auto M?

Got one of these so I'd have a CD player.

http://www.madracki.com/miata/modradio.html

Can anyone tell me for sure what the "Auto M" button does and how to
use it?

Everything else is now working very nicely but... what in heck does
that button do?

I'm thinking it's Auto Memory. You may have to hold it down a minute (till
it beeps) or you may just have to touch it, not sure but I believe it scans
the range and selects the stations with the best signal strength and loads
you presets.

What do I win?

I figured as much...... ;-)

Hope that was it,
Chris
99BBB

"XS11E" > wrote in message
...
>
> Got one of these so I'd have a CD player.
>
> http://www.madracki.com/miata/modradio.html
>
> Can anyone tell me for sure what the "Auto M" button does and how to
> use it?
>
> Everything else is now working very nicely but... what in heck does
> that button do?

"Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote in
:

> I'm thinking it's Auto Memory. You may have to hold it down a
> minute (till it beeps) or you may just have to touch it, not sure
> but I believe it scans the range and selects the stations with the
> best signal strength and loads you presets.
>
> What do I win?
>
> I figured as much...... ;-)
>
> Hope that was it,

I figured it out finally and you're pretty much correct. The reason I
couldn't get it to work is, as you suggested, you have to hold it down
for awhile... maybe 5 seconds or so. Then it does scan the stations
with the strongest signals and appears to store them in some kind of
temporary memory, it doesn't change the presets as far as I can tell.

So, out on the road and away from my preset stations I press and hold
the Auto Memory and it scans the band from lowest to highest and stops
with the strongest station playing and the word "auto" displayed. If I
touch the Auto M again, it goes to the next, touch it again and it goes
to the next, etc. IF I touch a preset it turns off the Auto Memory,
loses all the Auto Memory stations and goes to the preset that I
pressed which is still set to where it was originally, I have to press
and hold Auto M again to get it to scan again.

It's probably very nice for cross country driving, I can find all the
strong stations w/o losing my presets for when I get back home.

You win a 3,000 page bound volume of Leo's "Discourse on Photon Drag
and Why White Miatas are Faster" so watch your mailbox... ;-)

XS11E > wrote in
:

> You win a 3,000 page bound volume of Leo's "Discourse on Photon
> Drag and Why White Miatas are Faster" so watch your mailbox... ;-)

Didn't really mean to change Leon's name but Leo is easier to type!
Sorry, Leon.

"XS11E" > wrote in message
...
> "Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote in
> :
>
>> I'm thinking it's Auto Memory. You may have to hold it down a
>> minute (till it beeps) or you may just have to touch it, not sure
>> but I believe it scans the range and selects the stations with the
>> best signal strength and loads you presets.
>>
>> What do I win?
>>
>> I figured as much...... ;-)
>>
>> Hope that was it,
>
> I figured it out finally and you're pretty much correct. The reason I
> couldn't get it to work is, as you suggested, you have to hold it down
> for awhile... maybe 5 seconds or so. Then it does scan the stations
> with the strongest signals and appears to store them in some kind of
> temporary memory, it doesn't change the presets as far as I can tell.
>
> So, out on the road and away from my preset stations I press and hold
> the Auto Memory and it scans the band from lowest to highest and stops
> with the strongest station playing and the word "auto" displayed. If I
> touch the Auto M again, it goes to the next, touch it again and it goes
> to the next, etc. IF I touch a preset it turns off the Auto Memory,
> loses all the Auto Memory stations and goes to the preset that I
> pressed which is still set to where it was originally, I have to press
> and hold Auto M again to get it to scan again.
>
> It's probably very nice for cross country driving, I can find all the
> strong stations w/o losing my presets for when I get back home.
>
> You win a 3,000 page bound volume of Leo's "Discourse on Photon Drag
> and Why White Miatas are Faster" so watch your mailbox... ;-)
>
Are you holding the preset pushed for 5 sec as I would expect it then to
store it and allow you to continue.

you figured it out?!?! i told you about that feature in your last thread
about this radio... it is great to use when traveling long distances so
that you can quickly populate the station pre-sets with the areas strongest
stations but it blows away your own presets so they make you hold it to
prevent accidentally doing so...

"XS11E" > wrote in message
...
> "Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote in
> :
>
>> I'm thinking it's Auto Memory. You may have to hold it down a
>> minute (till it beeps) or you may just have to touch it, not sure
>> but I believe it scans the range and selects the stations with the
>> best signal strength and loads you presets.
>>
>> What do I win?
>>
>> I figured as much...... ;-)
>>
>> Hope that was it,
>
> I figured it out finally and you're pretty much correct. The reason I
> couldn't get it to work is, as you suggested, you have to hold it down
> for awhile... maybe 5 seconds or so. Then it does scan the stations
> with the strongest signals and appears to store them in some kind of
> temporary memory, it doesn't change the presets as far as I can tell.
>
> So, out on the road and away from my preset stations I press and hold
> the Auto Memory and it scans the band from lowest to highest and stops
> with the strongest station playing and the word "auto" displayed. If I
> touch the Auto M again, it goes to the next, touch it again and it goes
> to the next, etc. IF I touch a preset it turns off the Auto Memory,
> loses all the Auto Memory stations and goes to the preset that I
> pressed which is still set to where it was originally, I have to press
> and hold Auto M again to get it to scan again.
>
> It's probably very nice for cross country driving, I can find all the
> strong stations w/o losing my presets for when I get back home.
>
> You win a 3,000 page bound volume of Leo's "Discourse on Photon Drag
> and Why White Miatas are Faster" so watch your mailbox... ;-)
>

You have access to that?! I've been meaning to get a copy to de-bunk! Black
is faster! ;-)

Chris
99BBB

"XS11E" > wrote in message
...
> XS11E > wrote in
> :
>
>> You win a 3,000 page bound volume of Leo's "Discourse on Photon
>> Drag and Why White Miatas are Faster" so watch your mailbox... ;-)
>
> Didn't really mean to change Leon's name but Leo is easier to type!
> Sorry, Leon.
>
>
>

"Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote:

>You have access to that?! I've been meaning to get a copy to de-bunk!

To study and be convinced by, you meant to write.

> Black
>is faster! ;-)

Than standing still maybe. Pay particular attention to the section
on temperature-gradient driven diffraction, (pp 1732-1869), which
turns a black car into an effective black hole as far as photons are
concerned.

Leon

>Chris
>99BBB
>
>"XS11E" > wrote in message
.. .
>> XS11E > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> You win a 3,000 page bound volume of Leo's "Discourse on Photon
>>> Drag and Why White Miatas are Faster" so watch your mailbox... ;-)
>>
>> Didn't really mean to change Leon's name but Leo is easier to type!
>> Sorry, Leon.
>>
>>
>>
>
--
Leon van Dommelen Bozo, the White 96 Sebring Miata .)
http://www.dommelen.net/miata
EXIT THE INTERSTATES (Jamie Jensen)

well..........if there's that many pages.................I may pass on the
de-bunking and go straight to the slanderous remarks and non-sensical rants
(much less time involved;-)

Chris
99BBB

"Leon van Dommelen" > wrote in message
...
> "Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote:
>
>>You have access to that?! I've been meaning to get a copy to de-bunk!
>
> To study and be convinced by, you meant to write.
>
>> Black
>>is faster! ;-)
>
> Than standing still maybe. Pay particular attention to the section
> on temperature-gradient driven diffraction, (pp 1732-1869), which
> turns a black car into an effective black hole as far as photons are
> concerned.
>
> Leon
>
>>Chris
>>99BBB
>>
>>"XS11E" > wrote in message
. ..
>>> XS11E > wrote in
>>> :
>>>
>>>> You win a 3,000 page bound volume of Leo's "Discourse on Photon
>>>> Drag and Why White Miatas are Faster" so watch your mailbox... ;-)
>>>
>>> Didn't really mean to change Leon's name but Leo is easier to type!
>>> Sorry, Leon.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> --
> Leon van Dommelen Bozo, the White 96 Sebring Miata .)
> http://www.dommelen.net/miata
> EXIT THE INTERSTATES (Jamie Jensen)

"J Brockley" > wrote in
:

>
> "XS11E" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I figured it out finally and you're pretty much correct. The
>> reason I couldn't get it to work is, as you suggested, you have
>> to hold it down for awhile... maybe 5 seconds or so. Then it
>> does scan the stations with the strongest signals and appears to
>> store them in some kind of temporary memory, it doesn't change
>> the presets as far as I can tell.
>>
>> So, out on the road and away from my preset stations I press and
>> hold the Auto Memory and it scans the band from lowest to highest
>> and stops with the strongest station playing and the word "auto"
>> displayed. If I touch the Auto M again, it goes to the next,
>> touch it again and it goes to the next, etc. IF I touch a preset
>> it turns off the Auto Memory, loses all the Auto Memory stations
>> and goes to the preset that I pressed which is still set to where
>> it was originally, I have to press and hold Auto M again to get
>> it to scan again.
>>
>> It's probably very nice for cross country driving, I can find all
>> the strong stations w/o losing my presets for when I get back
>> home.
>>
>> You win a 3,000 page bound volume of Leo's "Discourse on Photon
>> Drag and Why White Miatas are Faster" so watch your mailbox...
>> ;-)
>>
> Are you holding the preset pushed for 5 sec as I would expect it
> then to store it and allow you to continue.

It does store it, see above.

PS, I have the same button on my Ford, it works completely differently.