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Initially designed to provide up to two hours of operation, tests have shown that once the
internal battery has been fully charged using an optional 15V regulated DC power supply, the
monitoring time extends to around FIVE HOURS (with back-lit LCD lamps off).
Note: Operational times are for guidance but depend upon the style of operation (volume level,
backlight, scanning etc) and are not guaranteed.
Corrupt data AR8600 (also applies to AR8200 MK1 and MK2)
If your AR8200 is behaving strangely such as locking up or powering down unexpectedly, it may
be suffering from corrupt data (programmable data or system data or both) due to a power glitch
(a.c. supply interruption, battery low etc).
The corruption can affect the search bank, memory bank (or channel) or indexes such as pass list
of select scan list. Instead of the data reading (for example) 123.450 MHz , it will attempt to
read 123.zv0 MHz ... as the corrupt data
is not recognised, it caused the AR8200 to 'crash' - like a computer program.
Try deleting & over-writing search banks, pass lists, select scan lists etc.
If the problem persists, it may require the system data to be refreshed using a modified version of
the EM8200 external memory card (which allows system data to be written). If you already have
an EM8200 card, your supplier may be able to arrange for the EM8200 to be modified and
loaded with default data (so the recovery procedure will be just a couple of key presses). Please
contact your supplier if you are unable to progress the matter.
EM8200 external memory slot card with AR8600
Following a report by Bob Farish (direct and via the internet) we investigated a report that
memory data was being lost when using the AR8600 with the EM8200 external memory slot
card.
The problem shows if the single 'memory bank' function is used.
No problems are experienced if 'all memories' are used.
If a single memory bank is loaded to the slot card , it is stored correctly.
If the single memory bank is loaded back to the set, the memories and individual text comments
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