Icom IC-R1500 Instruction Manual

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83SETTING A FREQUENCY23■ Turning power ON/OFF➥ While receiver’s power is OFF, push [PWR] to turn powerON.• While receiver power is ON, push and hold [PWR] for 1 sec. toturn power OFF.■ Mode selectionD VFO modesVFO mode is used for the desired frequency setting within thefrequency coverage.➥ Push [V/MHz•SCAN] to select VFO mode.What is VFO?VFO is an abbreviation of Variable Frequency Oscillator. Fre-quencies for receiving are generated and controlled by theVFO.D Memory mode/Weather channels*Memory mode is used for operation of memory channelswhich have programmed frequencies. Weather channels* aremonitored each 5 sec. when the weather alert function isturned ON.*Available for USA/CANADA versions only.qPush [MR•SKIP] to select memory mode.• “!” indicator appears when memory mode is selected.➥ Or push [MR•SKIP] twice and rotate [DIAL] to select theWeather channel mode, then push [MR•SKIP] again.• Memory mode, memory banks or Weather channels can beselected in sequence.• If weather channel mode is already selected, and you want toselect memory channel mode. Push [MR•SKIP] and rotate[DIAL] to select “bAnk --,” then push [MR•SKIP] again.w Rotate [DIAL] to select the desired channel.• Only programmed memory channels can be selected.• See ((p. 16)) for memory programming details.[DIAL][MR•SKIP][V/MHz•SCAN][PWR]