Selecting The Receiving Mode (Continued); Setting The Frequency; Ddirectly Entering A Frequency; Changing The Tuning Step - Icom IC-R8600 Instruction Manual

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BASIC OPERATION

Selecting the receiving mode (continued)

Lnformation
L
• S (Synchronous)-AM mode:
The Synchronous AM demodulation is a receive method that
mixes the incoming signal with a pure carrier frequency with
no level variation, then extracts one of the two sides (USB or
LSB) signal which is free from interferences.
This method is effective to reduce the distortions due to
fading, or interferences from adjacent stations.
• When the "D-STAR" and "FM" icons alternately blink:
Indicates that an FM signal is being received while in the
Digital (D-STAR) mode.

Setting the frequency

z Rotate to set the receive frequency.
• The displayed frequency changes depending on the
selected tuning step.
D Directly entering a frequency
You can set the frequency with the keypad.
Example: Entering 383.000000 MHz
1. Touch the MHz digits.
2. Start entry with the MHz digits.
LTo clear the entry, touch [CE].
L To clear the entry and return to the previous screen,
push .
EXIT
3. Touch [ENT] to set the entered frequency.
• Closes the F-INP screen.
L If you touch [ENT] when the digits under 100 kHz are
not entered, "0" will be automatically entered into the
blank digits.
Entry examples
• 14.025000 MHz: [1], [4], [•], [0], [2], [5], [ENT]
• 21.240000 MHz: [2], [1], [•], [2], [4], [ENT]
• 14 MHz: [1], [4], [ENT]
• 150 kHz: [0], [•], [1], [5], [ENT]
• Changing from 21.240000 MHz to 21.360000 MHz:
[•], [3], [6], [ENT]
(You can omit MHz digit entry.)

Changing the Tuning Step

1. Touch the TS indicator.
2. Touch to select the tuning step. (Example: 20k)
• The tuning step is set and returns to the previous screen.
D About the Tuning Step (TS) function
By turning the Tuning Step function ON or OFF, you can
change the frequency in MHz steps or 10 Hz.
Changing the frequency in MHz steps:
z Touch the MHz digit for 1 second, then rotate
.
Changing the frequency in 10 Hz steps:
z Touch the kHz digit to turn OFF the TS function,
then rotate
L To set the frequency in 1 Hz steps, directly enter the
frequency with the keypad.
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The Tuning Step
function is ON.
.
The Tuning Step
function is OFF.