Icom IC-M423GE Instruction Manual

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62 PANEL DESCRIPTION■ Function display (Continued)!9!5!7!8!6q w ie tr !0y ou!2!3!4!1!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 occursduring the preset of time.• The icon is displayed if the “RT Indicator:” item in the RADIOSET menu is set to “ON.” (p. 77)!2 LOW BATTERY ICONBlinks when the battery voltage drops to approximately10 V DC or less.!3 CHANNEL NUMBER READOUTShows the selected operating channel number.!4 CHANNEL NAME FIELDThe channel name is displayed, if entered. (p. 16)!5 KEY ICON (p. 7)Shows the preset function of the softkeys on the front panel.!6 TIME ZONE INDICATOR➥ Shows the current time when GPS data is received, orthe time is manually entered.• When the GPS current time is invalid, “??” will blink every2 seconds instead of the current time. After 23.5 hours haspassed, “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 23.5hours, 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 GPSsentence format is included in the GPS signal.➥ The date information is displayed when the RMC GPSsentence 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 forthe time zone indicator to be displayed.