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Selecting a Channel ■
 D Channel 16
Channel 16 is the distress and safety channel. It is used for 
establishing initial contact with a station and for emergency 
communications. Channel  16 is  monitored  during  both Du-
alwatch and Tri-watch. While standing by, you must monitor 
Channel 16.
Push [16/C] to select Channel 16. ➥
 Push [CH/WX]*  to  return  to  the screen displayed  before  ➥
you selected Channel 16, or push [Y]/[Z] to select an op-
erating channel.
  *  [CHAN]  is  displayed  instead  of  [CH/WX]  for  the  IC-M323/IC-
M323G except for Australian version.
 D Call channel
Each regular channel group has a separate leisure use Call 
channel. The Call channel is monitored during Tri-watch. The 
Call  channel  data  can  be  entered.  The  channels  used  to 
store your most often used channel in each channel group, 
for quick recall. (p. 13)
 Hold down [16/C] for 1 second to select the Call channel of  ➥
the selected channel group.
 •“CALL”andtheCallchannelnumberisdisplayed.
 •Eachchannelgrouphasanindependentcallchannelafterentry.
(p. 13)
 Push [CH/WX]*  to  return  to  the screen displayed  before  ➥
you selected Call channels, or push [Y]/[Z] to select an 
operating channel.
  *  [CHAN]  is  displayed  instead  of  [CH/WX]  for  the  IC-M323/IC-
M323G except for Australian version.
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