Icom IC-M502 Instruction Manual

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3BASIC OPERATION7Weather channelsThere are 10 weather channels. Used for monitoring weatherchannels from the NOAA (National Oceanographic and At-mospheric Administration) broadcasts.The transceiver can detect a weather alert tone on the se-lected weather channel while receiving the channel, duringstandby on a regular channel or while scanning. See“Weather alert” on p. 31.q Push [CH/WX] once or twice to select a weather channel.• “WEATHER” appears when a weather channel is selected. “WXALT” appears when the weather alert function is in use. (p. 31)w Rotate the channel selector to select a channel.• Channels are memorized separately for each channel group.n Microphone lock functionThe microphone lock function electrically locks the [Y]/[Z]and [HI/LO] switches on the supplied microphone. This pre-vents accidental channel changes and accidental function ac-cess.å While pushing [HI/LO] on the supplied microphone, turnpower ON to toggle the lock function ON and OFF.Push onceor twice When weather alert is OFF.WEATHERWhen weather alert is ON.WX ALTCH/WXDW U/I/CPush +U.S.A. channelsHI/LO CH/WXDW U/I/CCanadian channelsCANADAInternational channelsINTDUPUSA