Icom ic-m424g - Display Indicators; Channel and Battery Indicators; Time and GPS Status Indicators

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PANEL DESCRIPTION
■ Function display (Continued)
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!1 LOW BATTERY ICON
Blinks when the battery voltage drops to approximately
10 V DC or less.
!2 CHANNEL NUMBER READOUT
Shows the selected operating channel number.
 •Whenasimplexchannelisselected,“A”isdisplayed.
!3 CHANNEL NAME FIELD
The channel name is displayed, if entered. (p. 16)
!4 KEY ICON (p. 7)
Shows the preset function of the softkeys on the front pan-
el.
!5 TIME ZONE INDICATOR
Shows the current time when GPS data is received, or ➥
the time is manually entered.
  •When theGPS current time isinvalid,“??” will blinkevery
2 seconds instead of the current time. After 23.5 hours has
passed, “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 23.5
hours, and after that, “NO TIME” is displayed.
“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 GPS
sentence format is included in the GPS signal.
The date information ➥ is displayed when the RMC GPS
sentence 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 for
the time zone indicator to be displayed.