personnel qualification standard (pqs) - I Marine Expeditionary ...

114 Communications
o It will ask, “Do you want to include Time?” select NO
o Press Load on the RT and your Radio will Load Crypto
• To load time into
o Set FCTN switch to LD.
o Press the TIME button on the keypad.
o When you press the time button, two numbers appear and they are the
Julian date. After you see them, press CLR to clear the numbers and type
the appropriate Julian date, then press STO, and proceed to press TIME
again.
o Once the time button has been pressed again, four other numbers appear
and they are the hours and minutes.
o Press the time button again and the minute and seconds are displayed. At
this point you should have another radio with the correct time ready to
give you the time you need for your radio, unless you have loaded the time
with a PSN-11; in which while on tour in Iraq, you will get your time from
a reliable source because everyone’s time is different here.
o On your radio, type the current hour and then type the next minute. DO
NOT PRESS STO YET.
o On the radio with the reliable time, display the seconds until the correct
time has been counted down, in which you press STO on the radio
receiving the correct time.
o The seconds on the receiving radio shouldn’t be off any more than four
seconds, or you won’t be able to communicate. But in reality to be safe,
you shouldn’t have the seconds off no more than 1 second.
• Use of the function switches.
o THE FCTN SWITCH:
o OFF cuts the power off.
o Z-FH zeroizes the crypto.
o REM is used when the radio is remoted to another radio set.
o RXMT is used for retrans.
o SQ OFF is used to make noise for the radio observer and it is used to talk
to some civilian radios.
o SQ ON doesn’t make any noise for the radio observer.
o LD is used to load or make changes.
o TST is used to test the radio
o STBY is used for standby so you can cut your power source off and not
loose crypto. STBY runs off a battery inside the portion of the radio
labeled HUB. When the HUB battery is bad then a diamond will appear in
the right hand side of the display screen.
o THE MODE SWITCH:
SC is the single channel switch.
FH is the freq hop switch
FH-M is the freq hop master.
o THE COMSEC SWITCH:
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