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4
BASIC OPERATION
New2001
D
Weather channels
The transceiver has 10 weather channels. These are used for
monitoring broadcasts from NOAA. (National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration)
The transceiver can automatically detect a weather alert tone
on the selected weather channel or while scanning. (p. 16)
Push [CH/WX] once or twice to select the weather chan-
q
nel.
• When a weather channel is selected, the “WX” icon appears.
• When the Weather Alert function is in turned ON, the “WX
”
icon appears. (p. 98)
Push [
w
∫
](CH) or [
√
](CH) to select a channel.
• Pushing [
Y
]/[
Z
]
on the microphone also selects a channel.
When weather alert is OFF.
When weather alert is ON.
Receiving and transmitting
■
CAUTION:
Transmitting without an antenna will damage
the transceiver.
Hold down [PWR](Dial) to turn ON the power.
q
Set the audio and squelch levels. (pp. 3, 4)
w
First, open the squelch. Then, adjust the audio output
➥
level. After that, adjust the squelch level until the noise
just disappears.
Change the channel group. (p. 10)
e
Push [
r
∫
](CH) or [
√
](CH) to select a channel. (pp. 9, 10)
• Pushing [
Y
]/[
Z
]
on the microphone selects only Favorite chan-
nels.
• You can turn OFF the FAV on MIC setting (p. 100). After that, you
can select all channels by the microphone.
• When receiving a signal, the “
” icon appears and audio is
heard.
• Further adjustment of the volume level may be necessary.
Push [LO/DX] to turn the receive Attenuator function ON
t
or OFF, if necessary.
• The “LOC” icon appears when the receive Attenuator function is
ON.
Push [HI/LO] to select the output power, if necessary.
y
• The “25W” icon appears when high power is selected, and the
“1W” icon appears when low power is selected.
• Choose low power for short range communications, choose high
power for longer distance communications.
• Some channels are for only low power.
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