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MDC 1200 OPERATION
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MDC 1200 system operation
The MDC 1200 signaling system enhances your transceiver’s
capabilities. It allows PTT ID, Selective Calling, CallAlert,
Radio Check, Stun, Revive, Status, Messaging and
Emergency signaling. Also, the dispatcher can stun and
revive transceivers on the system.
An additional feature of MDC 1200 found in Icom transceivers
is called aliasing. Each transceiver on the system has a
unique ID number. Aliasing allows the substitution of an
alphanumeric name for this ID number. For transmit, you can
use this alias to select a transceiver to call. For receive, the
alias of the calling station is displayed instead of the ID.
Please note that your dealer has set one of the programma-
ble keys (IC-F70 series:
[EMERGENCY]
,
[UP]
,
[DOWN]
,
[MONITOR]
,
[P0]
,
[P1]
,
[P2]
and
[P3]
, IC-F1700 series:
[UP]
*,
[DOWN]
*,
[P0]
,
[P1]
,
[P2]
,
[P3]
and
[P4]
) for MDC
1200 operation.
* IC-F1810, IC-F1821/D, IC-F2810 and IC-F2821/D only
NOTE:
In this operating guide, the following functions are
assigned to the IC-F70 series for LCD description.
[P0]; MDC Call
[P1]; MDC SelCall
[P2]; MDC CallAlert
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Transmitting a call
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Transmitting a Selective Call
Selective calling allows you to make a call to a specific station
or to a particular group. Other MDC 1200 transceivers on the
channel will not receive a selective call that does not match
their station or group ID’s.
q
Push
[MDC Call]
to enter the MDC menu selection mode.
• Or push
[MDC SelCall]
to enter the transceiver alias selection
mode. In this case, skip step
w
.
For IC-F1700 series
For IC-F70 series
w
Push
[MDC Call]
again to enter the transceiver alias selec-
tion mode.
e
Select the desired alias using
[CH Up]
,
[CH Down]
,
[MDC
Up]
or
[MDC Down]
.
r
Push and hold
[PTT]
to transmit the selective call to the
selected station, then speak into the microphone.
• “
” (for IC-F1700 series) or “
” (for IC-F70 series) appears.
t
Release
[PTT]
to receive.
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