Setting Favorite Channels; Starting A Scan - Icom IC-M73 Instruction Manual

■ Setting Favorite channels

For more efficient scanning, add desired channels as Favorite
channels, or clear the Favorite for unwanted channels.
Untagged channels will be skipped during scanning. Favor-
ite channels can be independently assigned to each channel
group independently.
(USA, INT, CAN, ATIS)
Select the desired channel to set as a Favorite channel.
q
[FAV•★] for 1 second to set the displayed chan-
Hold down
w
nel as a Favorite channel.
• "★" appears on the function display.
To cancel the Favorite channel setting, hold down
e
for 1 second.
• "★" disappears.
✔ Clearing (or setting) All Favorite Channels in the Se-
lected Channel Group
While holding down [FAV•★], turn ON power to clear all the
Favorite channel settings in the channel group.
• Repeat above procedure to set all channels as Favorite channels.
[Example]: Starting a normal scan.
SCAN OPERATION (Except for the Dutch version)
[FAV•★]
Scan starts
Push
"SCAN" indication blinks

■ Starting a scan

First, set the weather alert function, priority scan function,
scan resume timer and auto scan function, using the SET
mode.
(pp. 26, 27)
q Make sure the desired channel group
is selected. Move between channel groups by repeat-
ATIS)
edly pushing [CH/WX•U/I/C] for 1 second at a time.
• When the weather alert function* is in use, select the desired
weather channel with [CH/WX•U/I/C] and [Y]/[Z].
* For only the USA, EXP, and AUS versions.
w Push [SCAN•DUAL] to start a priority or normal scan.
• "SCAN" blinks in the function display.
• "16" appears on the comment indicator during a priority scan.
• When a signal is received, the scan pauses until the signal dis-
appears, or resumes after pausing 5 seconds, depending on the
scan resume timer setting. (Channel 16 is still monitored during
a priority scan.)
• Push [Y]/[Z] to check the scanning of Favorite channels,
change the scanning direction or resume the scan manually.
e To stop the scan, push [SCAN•DUAL].
• "SCAN" disappears.
When
signal, "SCAN" indica-
tion blinks and audio
is heard.
5
(e.g., USA, CAN, INT,
Push
receiving a
to stop the scan
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