Icom IC-2730A Instruction Manual - Page 26
Weather alert, Default: OFF, Operating mode, Pause Timer, Default: 10SEC, Resume Timer
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2 MENU MODE ■■ MENU items (Continued) Pause Timer (Default: 10SEC) Select the Scan Pause time. • 2SEC to 20SEC: W hen a signal is received, the scan paus- es for 2 to 20 seconds (set in 2 second steps). • HOLD: The scan pauses on a received signal until the signal disappears. Resume Timer (Default: 2SEC) Select the Scan Resume time. When a received signal disappears, the scan resumes ac- cording to this setting. • 0SEC: The scan resumes immediately after the signal disappears. • 1SEC to 5SEC: The scan resumes 1 to 5 seconds after the signal disappears. • HOLD: The scan remains paused for the "Pause Timer" setting, even if the signal disap- pears. • Rotate [DIAL]S to resume the scan. • The Resume Timer must be set shorter than the Pause Timer, otherwise this timer does not work properly. Weather alert (Default: OFF) (Appears only for the USA version transceivers.) Turn the Weather Alert function ON or OFF. A NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) broadcast station transmits a weather alert tone before any important weather information. This function detects the weather alert tone on weather channels. • OFF: The function is OFF. • ON: Monitors the selected weather channel every 5 sec- onds. Operating mode (Default: FM) The transceiver has a total of four operating modes, FM, FMN, AM and AM-N. Operating modes are determined by the modulation of the radio signals. • In the 144 and 430 MHz bands, select FM or FM-N. • In the AIR band (118.000 MHz to 136.99166 MHz), select AM or AM-N. • In the AIR band, the default mode is AM. • W hile in the FM-N mode, the TX modulation is automati- cally set to narrow (approximately 2.5 kHz) 21