DEGEN DE1103 OPERATING MANUAL TRANSLATED BY LIYPN – © ALL RIGHTS RESERVED – MAY 2004 (We are the copyright holder of this manual in English. Please do NOT distribute this manual in any form nor post this manual on any web sites or radio groups without our written consent, e-mail: liypn@yahoo.com.cn. Thank you for your cooperation.) 1 . Power/Sleep 3 . Lock Key 2. Reset 4. Time/Delete 5 . St./Mono/SSB LED 7 . FM Band/Station Search Backward 6. Stereo/Mono/SSB 8. Line Out 9 .
TWO TYPES OF POWER SUPPLY BY BATTERY You may either use AA batteries or the rechargeable batteries supplied with this radio. When you use the rechargeable batteries for this radio, the power adaptor (220V.) that is supplied with this radio can also be used to recharge the rechargeable batteries inside the radio (see page 4 for details). Installing Batteries 1. Open the back cover of the battery compartment; 2. Put in the 4 batteries according to the polarity inside the battery compartment, 3.
or metal to avoid shorting the rechargeable batteries. If leakage is found on the batteries, clean the battery compartment with tissue to prevent further corrosions of other radio parts. Replacing Batteries 1. When the batteries are nearly exhausted, the BATTERY SIGN on the LCD will flash and then disappear. The radio will be turned off automatically. If you are using non-rechargeable batteries, please replace with new ones. If you are using rechargeable batteries, please recharge the batteries. 2.
steady voltage and 300 ma current, please do not use it with other appliances. Please do not use any other AC adaptor with the DE1103 as this may damage the rechargeable function of the radio. You can check the battery level when the radio is first turned on, one of the following ladder signs will display. The ladder sign will disappear when the radio is in normal use.
Socket (25). 3. Turn the radio off, press the “VOL” button (18) with one hand and rotate the “TUNE” knob (15) with another hand to set the recharge time. The recharge time can be set from 1 to 23 hours. When the “VOL” button is released, recharge of batteries will start. 4. When recharge of batteries is taking place, you will be able to observe the movements of the battery level ladder signs from short to tall. 5. The recharge process will terminate at the time that you set. PRECAUTIONS 1.
batteries. When recharging new or stored batteries, please exhaust the batteries before recharging. Do not mix new and old batteries for recharging. Avoid recharging batteries that will not used for a certain period of time, it would deteriorate the life of the batteries. NEVER recharge non-rechargeable batteries, which may cause leakage of fluid or explosions. SETTING THE CLOCK TIME DISPLAY 1. When the radio is in turn off mode, the LCD displays the time. 2.
POWER ON/OFF Press the “SLEEP” button (1) once to turn on the radio, press it again to turn off the radio. ALARMS You can set two alarms within 24 hours: Alarm 1 and Alarm 2. You can set to any desired turn on time, station preset, volume and turn off time as you like. When the set alarm time is reached, the radio will be turned on and turned off automatically according to the set alarm time. VOLUME CONTROL The radio has 64 steps (0 – 63) of volume control. The default volume is set to 40.
BAND SELECTION After turning on the radio, press the “BAND+” (9) or the “BAND-“ (7) button will be able to change to the desired band for listening. Please note the frame changes of the selected band on the LCD panel. SETTING SLEEP TIME The sleeping turn off time can be set no matter when the radio is turn on or turned off. Your can set the sleeping turn off time from 1 to 99 minutes. Method 1: 1. Press the numerical buttons to set the sleeping turn off time.
Alarm 1. The hour digits on the LCD panel will flash. 2. Rotate the “TUNE” knob (15) to adjust the hour, then press the “M/F” button (20) again, the minute digits on the LCD panel will flash. 3. Rotate the “TUNE” knob (15) to adjust the minute, then press the “M/F” button (20) again, the station presets will flash. 4. Rotate the “TUNE” knob (15) to select the station preset, then press the “M/F” button (20) again, the volume level will flash. 5.
disappear from the LCD panel, Alarm 1 settings are deactivated. Deactivating Alarm 2 Turn off the radio, press “STORE” button (19) once, the “Alarm 2” sign will disappear from the LCD panel, Alarm 2 settings are deactivated. TUNING TO STATIONS There are 4 methods of tuning to stations with this radio. When receiving stations in the AM and SW bands, please note the changes of the ladder style signal level indicator. The more ladders indicate the stronger the signal or vice versa.
Example 1: FM 89.80 MHz. (8) (9) (8) ”BAND-“ (no need to enter 0 after the decimal place for FM) Example 2: MW 810 KHz. (8) (1) (0) ”BAND+” Example 3: LW 120 KHz. (1) (2) (0) ”BAND+” Example 4: SW 15340 KHz. (1) (5) (3) (4) (0) ”BAND+” Please input all the numerical buttons by not longer than 3 seconds. When inputting a frequency that is out of range of the radio, the error message of “Err” will be displayed on the LCD panel. The smallest steps for inputting frequencies: AM: 1 KHz.
TUNING BY RECALLING MEMOERY PRESETS 1. Turn on the radio, press the “M/F” button (20), the “MEM” sign will be displayed on the LCD panel. 2. Rotate the “TUNE” knob (15) will in turn list the stored station memory presets. 3. If you remember the memory preset number of a particular station, you can input the preset number by pressing the numerical keys, followed by pressing the “M/F” button (20) to retrieve the relevant station quickly.
PAGE 9 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 9A 9B 9C 9D 9E 9F PAGE A A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 AA AB AC AD AE AF PAGE b b0 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7 b8 b9 bA bB bC bD bE bF PAGE C C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 CA CB CC CD CE CF PAGE d d0 d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 d6 d7 d8 d9 dA dB dC dD dE dF PAGE E E0 E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 EA EB EC ED EE EF PAGE F F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 FA FB FC FD FE FF Method 1: 1. Turn on the radio, tune to the station to be stored to the memory presets.
1. Turn the radio on, while holding down the “STORE” button (19), rotate the “TUNE” knob (15) and observe the frequency changes on the LCD panel, the “MEM” sign will flash. 2. Locate the station frequency to be deleted. 3. While holding the “STORE” button (19), press the “TIME” button (4). The memory preset reference will become blank, the “MEM” sign on the LCD display will disappear. Instead, the “VOL” sign will appear on the LCD display. 4. You have successfully deleted a memory preset.
2. Continuous backlight: When using the AC Adaptor with the radio, the backlights will be on continuously. 3. No backlight: Push the backlight switch to the “OFF” position. TONE SELECTION FM STEREO / MONO (ST/MO) Stereo mode is good for listening FM music programs with strong transmission signals. Press the “SSB” (6) button will switch from Mono to Stereo or vice versa. Mono mode should be used for listening to weak signal stations.
This radio can provide good audio signals to outside amplifiers. The sound quality when connected in this way is much better than the sound from the speaker of the radio. The line output signal of this radio is unaffected by the tone and volume controls on the radio. EARPHONE A good quality stereo earphone is supplied with the radio. When using the earphone, the speaker on the radio will be disconnected. You can listen to quality FM stereo programs by using the earphone with this radio. SSB/CW RECEPTION 1.
3. Shortwave selectivity: Wide – better than 40 dB, Narrow – better than 50 dB 4. Second IF for AM: Wide – less than 6 KHz., Narrow – less than 4 KHz. 5. Line out is not affect by volume and tone controls of the radio. 6. Power: Battery: 4 x AA size battery DC : 8 V., 300 mA Recharge time: 1 – 23 hours 7. 3 inch internal speaker 8. FM stereo possible through the earphone 9. Dimensions: 165 x 105 x 29 mm / 6.5 x 4 x 1 inch, approximately 10. Weight: 300 gram / 11 oz. (not including battery).
