Weather Channels - Icom IC-M604A Instruction Manual

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BASIC OPERATION
■ Channel selection (Continued)
D USA, International and Canadian channels
The IC-M604A is pre-programmed with 59 U.S.A., 59 inter-
national and 63 Canadian channels. These channel groups
may be set for your operating area.
q Push [CH/WX] to select a regular channel.
• If a weather channel appears, push [CH/WX] again.
w While holding down [H/L], push [CH/WX] to change the
channel group, if necessary.
• USA, International and Canadian channel groups can be se-
quentially selected.
e Rotate [SELECTOR] to select a channel.
• "
" appears for duplex channels.
• "A" appears when a simplex channel is selected.
• Pushing the keypad keys, or [Y]/[Z] on the microphone, also
selects a channel.
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D Weather channels
The IC-M604A 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 while receiving on an-
other channel, during standby on a regular channel or while
scanning. (p. 48)
q Push [CH/WX] once or twice to select a weather channel.
• "
" appears when a weather channel is selected.
• "
" appears when the weather alert function is
turned ON. (p. 48)
w Rotate [SELECTOR] to select a channel.
• Pushing the keypad keys, or [Y]/[Z] on the microphone, also
selects a channel.
Push
once or twice
CH/WX
9:
9:
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’0
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’9
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76% 


/*\
/*\
Weather alert is OFF.
9:
9: #.'46
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/*\
/*\
Weather alert is ON.

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