User's Manual

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Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................... 5
1-1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................. 5
1-2 TAKE CARE OF YOUR RECEIVER ................................................................................................ 7
1-3 INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE ....................................................................................................... 8
2 CONTROLS AND FUNCTIONS ........................................................................................................... 12
2-1 FRONT PANEL ............................................................................................................................... 12
2-2 REAR PANEL ................................................................................................................................. 13
2-3 LCD DISPLAY ................................................................................................................................ 14
2-4 KEYPAD ......................................................................................................................................... 15
2-4-1 FRONT PANEL KEYS ............................................................................................................. 15
3 GETTING STARTED............................................................................................................................ 21
3-1 MAKING THE AR5001D READY FOR OPERATION .................................................................... 21
3-1-1 CONNECT THE ANTENNA ..................................................................................................... 21
3-1-2 CONNECT POWER ................................................................................................................ 21
3-2 SWITCHING ON FOR THE FIRST TIME ...................................................................................... 21
3-3 VOLUME CONTROL ...................................................................................................................... 22
3-4 SQUELCH CONTROL ................................................................................................................... 23
3-5 VFO SELECTION ........................................................................................................................... 23
3-5-1 TUNING FREQUENCY ........................................................................................................... 24
3-6 RECEIVE MODE ............................................................................................................................ 25
3-6-1 AUTO MODE SELECTION ...................................................................................................... 26
3-6-2 RECEIVE MODE SELECTION ............................................................................................... 27
3-7 CHANGING THE FREQUENCY STEP.......................................................................................... 27
3-8 IF BANDWIDTH ............................................................................................................................. 28
3-8-1 MANUALLY SELECTING IF BANDWIDTH ............................................................................. 29
4 ADDITIONAL SETTINGS ..................................................................................................................... 30
4-1 AGC (AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL) ........................................................................................... 30
4-2 ATTENUATOR / RF AMPLIFIER .................................................................................................... 30
4-3 RF GAIN ......................................................................................................................................... 31
4-4 ANTENNA INPUT ........................................................................................................................... 31
4-5 KEYLOCK ....................................................................................................................................... 32
5 ADVANCED FUNCTIONS .................................................................................................................... 32
5-1 SPECTRUM DISPLAY ................................................................................................................... 32
5-1-1 ACTIVATING THE SPECTRUM DISPLAY .............................................................................. 33
5-1-2 CHANGING THE FREQUENCY SPAN ................................................................................... 33