Introduction
Operation
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Front panel description ...........................................................................................7
Power/volume control .............................................................................7
Mic. Socket .............................................................................................7
Status LED's ...........................................................................................7
Display ....................................................................................................8
Key pad ..................................................................................................9
Channel change......................................................................................................10
Channel up/down ....................................................................................10
Direct channel entry ................................................................................10
Selective Calls - alerting other stations ...................................................................12
Selcall .....................................................................................................12
Sending a selcall.....................................................................................12
Receiving a selcall ..................................................................................14
All call .....................................................................................................14
Group call ...............................................................................................15
Sub group call .........................................................................................15
Beacon call .............................................................................................16
Sending a beacon call.............................................................................16
Receiving a beacon call ..........................................................................17
Sending an emergency selcall ................................................................18
Transceivers receiving an emergency call ..............................................18
Telcall’s - direct dial telephone calls ........................................................................19
Beacon call .............................................................................................19
Sending a Telcall.....................................................................................19
Preset dialling .........................................................................................19
Direct dialling ..........................................................................................21
Last number redial ..................................................................................23
Hang-up call............................................................................................23
Scanning channels .................................................................................................25
Halting scan ............................................................................................25
Selcall Scan ............................................................................................26
Signal strength scan (SSL scan) .............................................................26
Voice (syllabic) scan ...............................................................................26
Enabling channels into scan tables .........................................................27
Clarifier ...................................................................................................................28
Mute types ..............................................................................................................29
Audio (syllabic) mute...............................................................................29
Selcall mute ............................................................................................29
Signal strength mute ...............................................................................29
Mode selection........................................................................................................30
LSB mode ...............................................................................................30
USB mode ..............................................................................................30
AM mode ................................................................................................30
CW mode ................................................................................................30
AFSK mode ............................................................................................30
Alarm operation ......................................................................................................31
International marine radiotelephone two-tone alarm ...............................31
RFDS alarm ............................................................................................31
Testing the alarm ....................................................................................31
Sending an Alarm ...................................................................................31
Transmit frequency monitoring................................................................................32
BARRETT 950 HF TRANSCEIVER
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