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5 controls, connectors, and display, Front panel – Alinco DR-SR8 User Manual

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Chapter 1 Getting Started

1.5 Controls, Connectors, and Display

Front Panel

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(23)

(12)

(13)

(6)

(11)

(14)

(15)

(16)

(17)

(18)

(19)

(20)

(1)

(21)

(5)
(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(2)

(3)
(4)

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Key

Principal Function

(1) POWER SWITCH

[PWR]

Turns the power on/off.

(2) [MODE] key

Press to select the USB, LSB, CWU, CWL, AM, or FM modes.

(3) [V/M] key

Switches between VFO mode and memory mode.

(4) [FUNC] key

Press and hold this key for 1 second to access the Set mode.

(5) [M/KHz] key

Switches the cursor position between MHz and kHz.

(6) [RIT] key

Press to turn the RIT or TXIT function on/off.

(7) [RF] key

(preamplifi er/attenuator)

Press to adjust receiver’s front-end gain by switching between the
preamplifi er and attenuator. Pressing this key will change gains
as follows: +10 dB, 0 dB, -10 dB, and -20 dB. After pressing the
[FUNC] key, press this key to select a narrow fi lter in the SSB,
CW and AM mode.

(8) [

Ÿ] key

Press to select memory channels and amateur radio bands, and to
change frequency in 1 MHz and 100 kHz increments. Also used to
select the transceiver’s settings in the Set mode.

(9) [

ź] key

Press to select memory channels and amateur radio bands, and to
change frequency in 1 MHz and 100 kHz decrements. Also used to
select the transceiver’s settings in the Set mode.

(10) [

] key

Enables the dial and key locks.

(11) KEYPAD

The keypad can be used for several functions as described later.

(12) MULTI FUNC [MF] key Press to access the multifunction.
(13) MAIN tuning dial

Rotate to select transmit/receive frequencies.

(14) RIT control knob [RIT]

Fine-tunes the reception frequency within a range of ±l.2 kHz.

(15) IF SHIFT control knob

[IF SHIFT]

Rotate to eliminate the interference by shifting the receiver IF pass
band (±1.5 kHz).

(16) SQL control knob [SQL] Rotate to eliminate noise when no signal is received.
(17) AF gain control knob

[VOL]

Rotate to adjust audio level.