Icom IC-A5 Marine Radio User Manual


 
FOREWORD .................................................................................... i
EXPLICIT DEFINITIONS ................................................................. i
CAUTIONS ....................................................................................... i
SUPPLIED ACCESSORIES............................................................. ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................. iii
1 ACCESSORY ATTACHMENT .................................................. 1
2 PANEL DESCRIPTION ........................................................ 2–7
Panel description ............................................................... 2–5
Function display ................................................................ 6–7
3 BASIC OPERATION .......................................................... 8 –11
DIAL[Y]/[Z] trade function...................................................8
Setting a frequency ................................................................ 8
Accessing 121.5 MHz emergency frequency ......................... 8
Selecting a weather channel................................................... 9
Setting a squelch level ........................................................... 9
Side tone function .................................................................. 9
Beep tone ............................................................................... 9
Lock function ........................................................................ 10
Display backlighting ............................................................. 10
Low battery indicator ............................................................ 10
REC/PLY of recorded signals/messages ............................. 10
Receiving ............................................................................. 11
Transmitting .......................................................................... 11
4 MEMORY OPERATION ................................................... 12 –15
Memory channel selection ................................................... 12
Transferring memory contents ............................................. 12
Programming a memory channel ......................................... 13
Memory names ............................................................. 14 –15
5 SCAN OPERATION ......................................................... 16– 17
Scan types ........................................................................... 16
COM band scan ................................................................... 16
Memory scan ....................................................................... 16
Weather channel scan ......................................................... 17
“TAG” channels ................................................................... 17
6 VOR NAVIGATION (IC-A23 only).................................... 18– 24
VOR indications ................................................................... 18
VOR functions ...................................................................... 19
Flying to a VOR station ................................................. 20 –21
Entering a desired course .................................................... 22
Crosschecking position ................................................. 22 –23
Duplex operation ................................................................. 24
7 BATTERY PACKS ........................................................... 25– 27
Charging precautions ........................................................... 25
Battery pack charging ................................................... 25 –26
About the battery pack ......................................................... 27
Battery pack CAUTION ........................................................ 27
8 CLONING ................................................................................ 28
9 TROUBLESHOOTING ............................................................ 29
10 SPECIFICATIONS .................................................................. 30
11 OPTIONS ......................................................................... 31 –32
(OPC-967 connection ......................................................... 32)
12 OPERATION GUIDE ....................................................... 33 –34
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