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If your transceiver seems to be malfunctioning, please check the followings before sending it to the service center.
PROBLEM
POSSIBLE CAUSE
SOLUTION
REF.
No power comes on.
• The battery is exhausted.
• The battery polarity is reversed.
• Bad connection of a battery pack
or case.
• Charge the battery pack, or replace the
batteries.
• Check the battery polarity.
• Clean battery terminals.
No sound comes from
the speaker.
• Volume level is too low.
• An external speaker or a cloning
cable is connected to the
[SP]
jack.
• Rotate
[VOL]
to adjust to the volume
level.
• Check the external speaker connection
or remove the cloning cable.
–
–
Transmitting is impos-
sible.
• The battery is exhausted.
• Transmission is inhibited.
• The Lockout function is activated.
• Charge the battery pack, or replace the
batteries.
• Set the 'TX permission' item to “ON” in the
Set mode.
• Turn OFF the Lockout function.
Transmitting using the
VOX function is impos-
sible.
• The VOX gain is set to OFF or too low.
• The microphone gain is too low.
• Transmission is inhibited.
• Set the VOX gain to a suitable level.
• Set the microphone gain to a suitable
level.
• Set the 'TX permission' item to “ON” in the
Set mode.
No direct contact pos-
sible with other stations.
• A different tone or code is used for
the tone or DTCS squelch.
• Check the tone or DTCS code by the
tone scan.
Frequency cannot be
set.
• The Key Lock function is activat-
ed.
• The memory mode, Call channel
mode, or weather channel mode*
is selected.
• Push
[FUNC](
M
)
, and then hold down
[
]
(# ENT) for 1 second to cancel the
Key Lock function.
• Push
[VFO/MR/CALL]
several times to
select the VFO mode.
–
–
A programmed scan
does not start.
• The memory mode, Call channel
mode, or weather channel mode*
is selected.
• The same frequency has been pro-
grammed in the scan edge chan-
nels, “XA”–“Xb.”
• Push
[VFO/MR/CALL]
several times to
select the VFO mode.
• Program different frequencies as the
scan edge channels.
–
A memory scan does
not start.
• The memory mode is not select-
ed.
• Only one or no memory channel
has been programmed.
• Push
[VFO/MR/CALL]
several times to
select the memory mode.
• Program 2 or more memory channels.
The function display
shows erroneous infor-
mation.
• The CPU is malfunctioning.
• External factors have caused a
fault.
• Reset the CPU.
• Remove and re-attach the battery pack
or case.
TROUBLE SHOOTING
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*For only USA version of IC-V80.