At the mo I just hit the AF button every time one butts in. Is there a way to configure the symphony unit to disable them altogether? Maybe I'm missing something in the manual, but Im blowed if I can find anything. Help appreciated thanks.

Press the TA (or maybe its TP) button so its not shown on the display.

Or read the manual.

Make sure you have the radio on, then press the TP button and it should disappear from the display. That worked for me the other day.

I thought you pressed the AF button. Pressing TP will only switch on the traffic announcements and cancel it when a TA broadcast is active. You have 2 AF presets so you can have 12 stations setup on the 1 to 6 buttons, plus you have the TP channel which lets you have 6 presets with traffic announcmements. If you press AF when listening normally it will switch to the last frequency used on the AF channel.

Press TA (NOT during an announcement) and you will see the little TP disappear from the display (top right).

If you press TA during an announcement it takes you back to your previous programme but leaves TA active for the next one.

AF is a feature of RDS that allows the tuner to follow different frequencies of the same station.

eg. Radio 2 down here is 89.1 but in other parts the frequency is different. With AF on the radio will tune automatically to the same station on the strongest frequency. With AF off it will not do anything and eventually the broadcast will fade away. AF stands for "Alternate frequency".

TA is the button you want, press when no broadcast is being recieved and TA should go out in the display.

An added feature of the symphony HU most people dont realise exists is that it can record traffic news when you are not in the car although I cant remember how to turn it on/off as I havent used a symphony HU for a while.

An added feature of the symphony HU most people dont realise exists is that it can record traffic news when you are not in the car although I cant remember how to turn it on/off as I havent used a symphony HU for a while.

That's the "AIM" button.

On mine it's press the button to turn on the radio, then it turns of the traffic announcements. Press TP to get it back. Press TP whilst a TA is ongoing to return to program/cd.

Followed advice - seems to have done the trick - thanks everyone for the info, what a great forum this is!

Argh, I have the same prob but none of the advice below seems to work!

I've tried swapping to the other presets, but it seems to default back to TP each time I turn it on.

The manaul doesn't actually tell you how to turn it off, it seems to be on, and that's it!

Any thoughts??

Hewesy

Argh' date=' I have the same prob but none of the advice below seems to work!

I've tried swapping to the other presets, but it seems to default back to TP each time I turn it on.

The manaul doesn't actually tell you how to turn it off, it seems to be on, and that's it!

Any thoughts??

Hewesy[/quote']

Assuming the SYMPHONY CD-tuner. There are two types of radio presets. Those with TA/TP and those without. Hitting the TP button accesses the TA enabled presets and hitting the A/F button selects those without TA enabled.

This isn't generally the way TA/TP is implemented on 'normal' car radios and confused the hell out of me until I spent 5 minutes with the menual grinding my teeth to figure out how to work it.

J.

I find that to turn the setting off for Traffic

you close your eyes and press a few random buttons

then after about 5minutes it switches itself off

Argh' date=' I have the same prob but none of the advice below seems to work!

I've tried swapping to the other presets, but it seems to default back to TP each time I turn it on.

The manaul doesn't actually tell you how to turn it off, it seems to be on, and that's it!

Any thoughts??

Hewesy[/quote']

On mine, to switch off traffic announcements:

Listen to FM and make sure there isn't a traffic announcement in progress

Press the AF button

To turn announcements back on, press the TP button.

Sorry, it is the Symphony CD/Radio HU.

Thanks for the replies, will try that out tonight.

Do you find that it resets to the TP presets when you power the radio back on?

Hewesy

Do you find that it resets to the TP presets when you power the radio back on?

Hewesy

I've not noticed because I normally listen to CDs. I just switch to FM to turn announcements on or off.

SWMBO wishes to exterminate TP. Yours truly has read the Symphony manual, printed the previous 15 posts and sat in her Fabia 1.4 (give me my 2.8 superb elegance any day!) for an hour in an attempt to obey orders. Total failure:(

No matter what buttons I press, TP still pops up in the top left hand corner of the display.

Madam wishes to have uninterrupted Wogan:eek: What else can I try?:confused:

The following works for me, play a CD, whilst playing press AF button. Now tune in stations, ie start from scratch. Now, whenever you start car it should default to AF setting ie no traffic blurbs.

The following works for me, play a CD, whilst playing press AF button. Now tune in stations, ie start from scratch. Now, whenever you start car it should default to AF setting ie no traffic blurbs.

Thanks for that:thumbup: I guess I might be doing a little button pressing this Suday morning. Anything to keep in the good books:cool:

The small TP in the corner just indicates that the station broadcasts the traffic announcement signal. Below that it says either FM1, FM2 or TP1. pressing AF will cycle between FM1 and FM2, pressing TA or TP ( which ever one it is) selects the TP1 band. The TP1 band allows you to receive traffic announcements. Just make sure your on FM1 or FM2 and you will not receive the anouncments.

I have to disagree.

Some stations broadcast a TP signal.

The radio has the ability (configurable) to pick this up.

If the radio is "TP enabled" (toggled by pressing the TP button NOT during a traffic announcement), the TP indicator will be illuminated when a "TP enabled" station is being received.

There are no special bands of stations stored by the radio (at least not in the Octavia). It just responds to the presence, or otherwise, of a traffic signal.

The TP button performs two similar but subtly different functions. Pressing it during a normal broadcast, not during a bulletin, enables the TP "awareness". This is indicated by the little "TP" on the display. Once it's on, the radio will pick up any station broadcasting a traffic signal within range. Thus, you may be listening to Radio 2, and if a local station starts their traffic bulletin, Radio 2 will be interrupted and you will get the local station, for the duration of the bulletin, or sometimes, until they remember to switch the signal off

Pressing it during a bulletin tells the radio you've heard enough of the bulletin, and returns you to your pre-tuned station.

Another distinction is that there are two types of traffic signal, local and "distant". In other HUs, the ability is provided to switch between the two. I can't find that function on the Symphony. This should allow you to receive only local bulletins (i.e. relating to roads nearby) or any bulletin, regardless of its origin.

The small TP top left show's regardless, once it's on.

It's whether the larger FM or TP is shown below that governs whether the traffic cuts in or not.

Mine show's TP as enabled (cannot disable) but doesn't cut in if in FM mode.

Might be worth trying the CD advice, as above.

Hewesy

Hi folks

Many thanks to one and all for the numerous ideas and tips. Much appreciated.

Now that I've had a chance to look at both radios in the Superb Elegance 2.8 V6 (03 plate) and the Fabia 1.4 16v 100hp (05 plate) a chance to compare.

Oddly they are both Symphonies and work in different ways. The Fabia, as someone said, always seems to have the little TP sign in the top left corner of the display. There is also the larger TP sign which shows once you flip through FM1 and FM2.

The Superb has only 2 FM bands (but its got the 6CD autochanger!). The TP sign disappears by simply pressing the TP button. This suggests the presets can include TPs depending whether you have pressed the TP button or not.

It was the permanent TP sign on the Fabia which I think caused the confusion at this end.

I wish sometimes for the days of my youth - nothing more to worry about than tuning into the Home, Light or Third programme in the car. And at night you could smuggle the mains wireless under the bed clothes and listen to Radio Luxembourg:cool: