Icom IC-M423GE Instruction Manual page 16

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PANEL DESCRIPTION
■ Function display (Continued)
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!1 RT (Radio Telephone) ICON
(For only USA version transceivers.)
Displayed while in the Radio Telephone mode.
• The Radio Telephone mode is terminated if no operation occurs
during the preset of time.
• The icon is displayed if the "RT Indicator:" item in the RADIO
SET menu is set to "ON." (p. 77)
!2 LOW BATTERY ICON
Blinks when the battery voltage drops to approximately
10 V DC or less.
!3 CHANNEL NUMBER READOUT
Shows the selected operating channel number.
!4 CHANNEL NAME FIELD
The channel name is displayed, if entered. (p. 16)
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!5 KEY ICON (p. 7)
Shows the preset function of the softkeys on the front panel.
!6 TIME ZONE INDICATOR
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➥ Shows the current time when GPS data is received, or
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the time is manually entered.
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• When the GPS current time is invalid, "??" will blink every
2 seconds instead of the current time. After 23.5 hours has
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passed, "NO TIME" is displayed.
• "??" will blink every 2 seconds instead of the current time,
after 4 hours* have passed from when the time was manu-
ally entered. The manually entered time is held for only 23.5
hours, and after that, "NO TIME" is displayed.
*3 hours and 59 minutes for USA version.
➥ "LOCAL" is displayed when the offset time is set.
➥ "MNL" is displayed when the time is manually entered.
➥ "UTC" is displayed when the GGA, GLL or GNS GPS
sentence format is included in the GPS signal.
➥ The date information is displayed when the RMC GPS
sentence format is included in the GPS signal.
➥ "NO TIME" is displayed when no GPS receiver is con-
nected, and no time is manually entered.
NOTE for the IC-M423 and IC-M424:
These models do not come with a built-in GPS receiver.
Therefore an external GPS receiver needs to be con-
nected, or the time needs to be manually entered for
the time zone indicator to be displayed.