Icom IC-A6 Marine Radio User Manual


 
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SAFETY TRAINING INFORMATION ............................................... i
FOREWORD ................................................................................... ii
IMPORTANT .................................................................................... ii
EXPLICIT DEFINITIONS ................................................................. ii
SUPPLIED ACCESSORIES ............................................................ ii
PRECAUTIONS............................................................................... iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................. iv
1 PANEL DESCRIPTION ........................................................ 1–6
Panel description ................................................................... 1
Function display ..................................................................... 5
2 ACCESSORY ATTACHMENT .................................................. 7
3 BASIC OPERATION .......................................................... 8–11
Setting a frequency ................................................................ 8
Setting a squelch level ........................................................... 8
Selecting a weather channel................................................... 8
Receiving ............................................................................... 9
Transmitting ........................................................................... 9
ANLfunction ........................................................................... 9
Low battery indicator ............................................................ 10
Recall function ..................................................................... 10
Setting weather alert function................................................ 11
Accessing 121.5 MHz emergency frequency ....................... 11
Lock function ........................................................................ 11
Side tone function ................................................................ 11
Setting beep tone ................................................................. 11
Backlighting .......................................................................... 11
4 MEMORY OPERATION ................................................... 12–15
Memory channel selection ................................................... 12
Transferring memory contents ............................................. 12
Programming a memory channel ......................................... 13
Memory names .................................................................... 14
Clearing the memory contents ............................................. 14
5 SCAN OPERATION ......................................................... 16–17
Scan types ........................................................................... 16
COM band scan ................................................................... 16
Memory scan ....................................................................... 16
Weather channel scan
(U.S.A. version only) ............................ 17
“TAG” channels ................................................................... 17
6 VOR NAVIGATION (IC-A24 only) .................................... 18–24
VOR indications ................................................................... 18
VOR functions ...................................................................... 19
Flying to a VOR station ........................................................ 20
Entering a desired course .................................................... 22
Crosschecking position ........................................................ 22
Duplex operation
(U.S.A. version only) .................................... 24
7 BATTERY PACKS ........................................................... 25–27
Battery charging ................................................................... 25
Battery cautions ................................................................... 25
Optional battery case ........................................................... 26
Optional battery chargers ..................................................... 27
8 CLONING ................................................................................ 28
9 TROUBLESHOOTING ............................................................ 29
10 SPECIFICATIONS .................................................................. 30
11 OPTIONS ................................................................................ 31
12 QUICK REFERENCE ...................................................... 32– 33
13 OPTIONAL HEADSET CONNECTION .................................. 34
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