IDT EVR-100 Owner's Manual

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EVR-100

VHF Marine Radio

Owner’s Manual

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1. Your radio has the following features:

Congratulations on your purchase of a Eagle EVR-100 marine band VHF radio. It provides the following
useful features:

Prominent channel display

Adjustable keypad backlighting for easy night-time use

Waterproof and submersible to comply with JIS-7

Choice of High or Low (7 W or 1 W) transmission power

Top centered PTT button for comfortable left- or right-handed use

Powerful 4 W external audio output

Access to all currently-available marine VHF channel bands (USA, Canada, International) including

Weather channels where available

Special CH16 or CH16/9 key for quick access to the priority (international distress) channel

Special 3CH key to select your three favorite channels

Weather alert facility where available

Squelch Adjustment to help eliminate noise between transmissions.

Battery Level Indicator ----shows the battery condition.

2. LCD Symbols and Meanings

Symbol Meaning

TX Transmitting

HI LO Transmission power, High (H) 7W or Low (LO) 1W.

BUSY Receiver busy with an incoming signal

WX Weather channel

WX ALT Weather Alert. Alarm beeps will sound.

PRI Priority channel is selected

SCAN Scanning channels

DW Dual Watch mode

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ALL ALL channels scan mode

C1 C2 C3 Shows which of the 3 favourite channels, if any, are

selected. Otherwise blank

88 (small)

18.8 (BIG) Channel selected

U I C Selected Channel bank for VHF radio operations and

regulations ( USA, International, Canada)

Low Battery warning (activates at 10.5V)

Channel is temporarily deleted from the ALL SCAN

operation

A B Channel suffix, if applicable

3. Basic Operation and Key Functions

Key Function

VOL/PWR

Volume and Power. Turn clockwise to power on. Continue to turn until a

comfortable volume is reached. VOL/PWR will also adjust the settings of an external

speaker, if connected

SQL

Squelch or Threshold Level. Sets the threshold level for the minimum receiver

signal. Turn fully counterclockwise until random noise is heard, then turn slowly

clockwise until the random noise disappears. Make another 1/4 turn clockwise for

best reception in open sea conditions.

In areas of high noise (e.g. close to large cities) reception may improve if sensitivity

is reduced. Either turn SQL slowly clockwise or use the LOCAL setting. See section

2.3.

16/9

Priority Channel. Also on the microphone. Press to cancel all other modes and to

tune into the priority channel. Press again to return to your original channel.

The default is Channel 16. To make Channel 09 the priority channel, hold down 16/9

until a beep sounds and 09 is displayed.

WX

Weather Channel. In USA and Canadian waters, press to hear the most recently

selected weather station. The WX symbol is displayed on the LCD.

Press + or - to change to a different weather channel. Press WX again to return to

the most recent channel.

If the weather alert mode (ALT) is ON and an alert tone of 1050Hz is broadcast from

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the weather station, it is picked up automatically and the alarm sounds. Press any

key to hear the weather alert voice message.

UIC

Channel Bank. Press to toggle between USA, International or Canadian channel

banks. The selected channel bank is displayed on the LCD along with the last used

channel. All the channel charts are shown in Appendix.

3CH +/-

Three Favourite Channels. Also on the microphone. Press to toggle between

your favourite channels. The C1, C2, or C3 symbol appears on the LCD to show

which favourite channel is selected.

To scan only one of your favourite channels, press 3CH then immediately press and

release SCAN. If you want to scan all three favourite channels, press 3CH then

immediately press and hold SCAN.

To add a favourite channel for the first time, select that channel then hold 3CH to

store it in the CH1 location. Repeat the procedure to store two more favourite

channels in the CH2 and CH3 locations respectively.

If you try and add another favourite channel it will overwrite the existing CH1. CH2

and CH3 remain unless you delete them.

To delete a favourite channel, select that channel then hold down 3CH until the C1,

C2 or C3 symbol disappears on the LCD.

SCAN

Scan. Press to scan between your current channel and the priority channel in DUAL

or TRI WATCH mode. The weather channel is also scanned if the USA channel

bank is selected and the weather alert mode (ALT) is ON.

Hold down SCAN to enter ALL SCAN mode where the priority channel is checked

every 1.5 seconds.

When a signal is received, scanning stops at that channel and BUSY appears on the

screen. If the signal ceases for more than 5 seconds, the scan restarts.

Press ENT to temporarily skip over (lock out) an “always busy” channel when in ALL

SCAN mode and resume the scan. An X is shown on the screen to designate a

skipped channel. Note that it is not possible to skip over the priority channel.

Press SCAN again to stop at the current channel.

+ CH -

Channel Select. Also on the microphone. The current channel is shown on the

screen in BIG digits with an appropriate designator suffix A or B in small letters

below the channel number.

Press + or - to step through the available channels one at a time, or hold down to

scroll rapidly through all the available channels. See Appendix for a listing of

channel charts.

Backlight switch Press to turn on the backlighting, press again to turn off

Battery Level Check Press to check the input battery voltage, battery level will

appears on the LCD, 5 seconds later will disappears automatically

SKIP

Escape from ALL scan To temporarily deleted the channel in ALL scan, select the

channel then press the SKIP, the channel will be skipped in the later scanning,

symbol appears on the LCD. Press SKIP again to cancel the escape of the channel.

H/L

Transmission Power. On the microphone ONLY High (HI) 7W or Low (LO) 1W.

Press to toggle between high or low transmission power for the entire channel bank.

The HI or LO selection is shown on the LCD.

Some channels allow only low power transmissions. Error beeps will sound if the