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E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 4 E1 MANUAL E1 AM/FM/Shortwave Radio IMPORTANT SAFEGUARDS An appliance and cart combination should be moved with care. Quick stops, excessive force and uneven surfaces m ay cause the appliance and cart combination to overturn.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 6 E1 MANUAL 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IMPORTANT SAFEGUARDS continued items placed upon or against them, paying particular attention to cords at plugs, convenience receptacles, and the point where they exit from the product. 14. Outdoor Antenna Grounding - If an outside antenna or cable system is connected to the product, be sure the antenna or cable system is grounded so as to provide some protection against voltage surges and built-up static charges.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 8 E1 MANUAL GENERAL DESCRIPTION TABLE OF CONTENTS continued QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE p.48 GLOSSARY OF TERMS p.51 TROUBLESHOOTING p.52 SERVICE INFORMATION p.53 ONE YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY p.53 APPENDIX p.54 • UNDERSTANDING SHORTWAVE BANDS p.54 - WHAT IS SHORTWAVE? - SOME BASIC RULES OF THUMB - WHAT ARE BANDS? - A HELPFUL ANALOGY ABOUT BANDS - DAY BANDS v s.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 10 E1 MANUAL POWER SUPPLY continued POWER SUPPLY continued sion. After that time, the normal E1 display will be observed. (4) Insert the first of four “D” sized batteries into the battery opening with the plus end of the battery to your left. See the following illustration.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 12 E1 MANUAL INSTALLATION continued INSTALLATION continued 278-265B adapter, sold by Radio Shack, Maplin Electronic Supplies (www.maplin.com) or an equivalent adapter, will adapt a female type F connection to the PAL-TO-F type connector on the etón E1. RIGHT SIDE AND REAR VIEWS Connect the outside antenna feed to the “EXT. ANTENNA“ jack located on the left side panel.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 14 E1 MANUAL E1 FRONT PANEL DESCRIPTION continued E1 FRONT PANEL DESCRIPTION 23 22 21 20 1 19 2 3 18 17 4 16 15 14 5 13 6 7 12 8 11 10 knob will be ineffective, and “LOCK” and “TUN LOCK“ will appear on the LCD display. To return to normal operating mode, once again press the ‘CLEAR/LOCK’ key for three seconds.This control can also be used when the receiver is turned off. Press ‘CLEAR/LOCK’ for 3 seconds.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 16 E1 MANUAL E1 FRONT PANEL DESCRIPTION continued “RADIO SETTINGS” menu, and 200 kHz steps on FM mode, until a signal is encountered that is stronger than the SQUELCH setting. While SEEK is engaged, the word “SEEK” will appear on the display. 14. TIME Pressing the ‘TIME’ key will cause the TIMER 1 screen to appear on the display, allowing TIMER 1 to be enabled or disabled.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 18 E1 MANUAL E1 DISPLAY DESCRIPTION TOP PANEL DESCRIPTION 1 2 3 1. TELESCOPIC ANTENNA This is a 39 1/4“ (1.003 meters) telescopic antenna for use on all bands. 2. LIGHT Pressing this key while the receiver is turned ON cycles the display illumination through four brightness states; Off, Dim, Medium and Bright. When the receiver is in the OFF state and connected to external power, the display, when lit, will be DIM.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 20 E1 MANUAL E1 DISPLAY DESCRIPTION continued E1 DISPLAY DESCRIPTION continued 10. MHz / kHz Indicates whether the frequency displayed is shown in megahertz or kilohertz. 11. MENU Labels the ‘MENU’ softkey which is used to bring up a series of menus. Repeatedly pressing this key will advance through additional menu pages. 12. AGC Labels the ‘AGC’ (Automatic Gain Control) softkey and shows its release time status (Slow, Fast, or Auto).
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 22 E1 MANUAL SIDE PANEL DESCRIPTION continued 4. ANTENNA HF This switch selects between the internal TELESCOPIC antenna and the external antenna connector when receiving LW, MW, or SW frequency ranges. 5. ANTENNA FM This switch selects between the internal TELESCOPIC antenna and the external antenna connector when receiving the FM Broadcast band (76 - 90 MHz or 87 – 108 MHz). 6.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 24 E1 MANUAL GETTING STARTED continued GETTING STARTED continued Press the ‘SW BAND’ softkey to enter the shortwave band tuning mode. The SW portion of the display indicator will now be in reverse video. Now press the ‘SW BAND’ softkey a second time. receiver will tune to that band, the “SW BAND” indicator will appear as “BAND“, and the shortwave band SW “METER” prompt will quit flashing.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 26 E1 MANUAL MEMORY FUNCTIONS GETTING STARTED continued PBT knob will cause ‘AM SYNC’ to flash on and off temporarily until the system once again locks on to the desired carrier. FM OPERATION FM reception is perhaps the easiest mode to use on the etón E1 receiver. The AGC and BANDWIDTH settings are not used in FM.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 28 E1 MANUAL MEMORY FUNCTIONS continued MEMORY FUNCTIONS continued mode has been selected. key. Then proceed as follows: 8. Meter Band Identifier Identifies the meter band of the selected SW frequency. If the channel is an FM broadcast band frequency, “STEREO” or “MONO” appears in this location. (A.) Select an empty MEMORY channel number using the ‘TUNING’ knob, or the ‘< SELECT >’ keys. (B.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 30 E1 MANUAL COUNTRY FUNCTIONS continued COUNTRY channels can be scanned using the SEEK function which can stop on any stored channel that has a predetermined signal level. With COUNTRY channels programmed with a “T” tag, you can use the T.SCAN function to selectively monitor desired COUNTRY frequencies.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 32 E1 MANUAL E1 MENUS E1 MENUS continued In the following discussion concerning menus, the numbers presented in front of each item refer to the keys on the Direct-Key- Input keypad. To activate a menu item, simply press the numbered key corresponding to the menu number. On keys that toggle between two conditions, the selected condition will appear in reverse video.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 34 E1 MANUAL E1 MENUS continued E1 MENUS continued 1. ENHANCED SSB OFF / ON - Pressing ‘1' toggles ENHANCED SSB ON and OFF. Enhanced SSB provides 30 Db of additional rejection of the undesired sideband through audio phasing circuitry, as shown in the following diagram. AUDIO SETTINGS The AUDIO SETTINGS menu is reached either by pressing the MENU softkey thre times, or pressing the MENU softkey once and then pressing the ‘2' key.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 36 E1 MANUAL E1 MENUS continued E1 MENUS continued SET CLOCKS This menu is reached from the AUDIO SETTINGS menu described above by pressing the ‘8' (MORE) key once, or from the MAIN MENU by pressing ‘3'. It is used to manually set the GMT and Local clocks. It appears as shown in the following illustration. CLOCK MODES This menu is reached from the SET CLOCKS menu described above by pressing the ‘8' (MORE) key once, or from the MAIN MENU by pressing ‘4'.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 38 E1 MANUAL E1 MENUS continued E1 MENUS continued TIMERS This menu is used to set the ON time, OFF time, and associated MEMORY or COUNTRY for timers 1 and 2. It is reached by pressing the ‘8' (MORE) key from the CLOCK MODES menu or the ‘5' key from the MAIN MENU. It appears as is shown in the following illustration. TIMER 1 ENABLE / DISABLE This menu is used to enable and disable event timer number 1. It is reached by pressing the ‘TIME’ key once.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 40 E1 MANUAL E1 MENUS continued TIMER 2 ENABLE / DISABLE This menu is used to enable and disable event timer number 2. It is reached by pressing the ‘TIME’ key a second time. The ON time, OFF time, and MEMORY or COUNTRY channel shown on this menu must be entered using the TIMERS menu. The TIMER 2 ENABLE / DISABLE display appears as shown in the following illustration. E1 MENUS continued This display is shown in the following illustration.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 42 E1 MANUAL SEEK FUNCTION continued CLOCK AND TIMER FUNCTIONS that signals breaking the squelch are not noisy.) (3) Press the ‘SEEK’ key. The receiver will step through all programmed MEMORY or COUNTRY locations until it finds a signal that exceeds the squelch setting. It will stop on that signal and will stay there until the ‘SEEK’ key is pressed again.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 44 E1 MANUAL CLOCK AND TIMER FUNCTIONS continued be set manually. This is accomplished using the SET CLOCKS menu. To reach this menu, the unit must be in the ON state. Then press the ‘MENU’ softkey. This will bring up the MAIN MENU. From the MAIN MENU, press the ‘3' key on the ‘Direct-Key-Input’ keypad. This will activate the SET CLOCKS menu. Setting Local Time (1) To set the Local time, press the ‘1' key.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 46 E1 MANUAL CLOCK AND TIMER FUNCTIONS continued CLOCK AND TIMER FUNCTIONS continued • • • • • ENABLING/DISABLING TIMER OPERATION Press the ‘TIME’ button. This will activate the TIMER 1 display. It will appear as shown in the “ENABLING/DISABLING TIMER” illustration which follows. Press ‘3' for “TIMER 1 MEM CH”. You will see a reverse video curser appear. Press ‘1', ‘4', ‘6', ‘0'. You will see “TIMER 1 MEM CH 1460“.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 48 E1 MANUAL SPECIAL USE FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS continued SPECIAL USE FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS continued This control can also be used when the receiver is turned off. Press ‘CLEAR/LOCK’ for 3 seconds. A message will appear confirming lock. If power is then pressed, a “Press CLEAR/LOCK for 3 seconds to unlock” message will appear. The user must perform this action before the ‘POWER’ key will allow the receiver to be turned on.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 50 E1 MANUAL QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE continued QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE The 3 symbol indicates that the key is to be pressed within three seconds. Select normal frequency display (VFO) (page 19 item 20) • Press ‘VFO’ Select normal frequency display (VFO) (page 19 item 21, 22, 23) • Press ‘FM’, SW, MW or LW softkeys to select FM Broadcast, Shortwave,AM Broadcast or Long Wave bands.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 52 E1 MANUAL QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE continued Delete all MEMORY and COUNTRY Channels (page 57) Mark Channels for T.Scan (page 51) GLOSSARY OF TERMS • Press ‘MEMORY’ or ‘COUNTRY. • Turn off with ‘POWER’ key. • Press & hold ‘POWER’ key & press ‘DELETE’ for 2 seconds. • When warning appears, release ‘DELETE’ & press it again for 2 seconds. • This will clear all memory locations. • Select either MEMORY or COUNTRY.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 54 E1 MANUAL TROUBLESHOOTING SERVICE INFORMATION You may contact etón Corporation Service Department for additional information or assistance by calling tollfree Monday through Friday, 8:30am -4:00pm Pacific Standard Time: Problem Probable Cause Solution No front panel display or light. (A) Power connection. (B) Defective AC ADAPTER unit. (C) Batteries are discharged or not installed for portable operation, no AC power.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 56 E1 MANUAL APPENDIX UNDERSTANDING SHORTWAVE BANDS - THE KEY TO SUCCESSFULLY USING YOUR SHORTWAVE RADIO Do You Need Help? Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., North American Pacific Time. 1-800-872-2228 from the U.S. 1-800-637-1648 from Canada 1-650-903-3866, worldwide FAX: 650-903-3867 customersvc@etoncorp.com www.etoncorp.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 58 E1 MANUAL APPENDIX - UNDERSTANDING SHORTWAVE BANDS continued APPENDIX - UNDERSTANDING SHORTWAVE BANDS continued FULL-SIZED PASSIVE SHORTWAVE ANTENNAS These normally give the best performance. Generically they have names such as dipoles, trapped dipoles, parallel dipoles and slopers. They are characteristically fed with 50 or 75 ohm coaxial cable that leads to the radio’s antenna socket.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 60 E1 MANUAL APPENDIX - etón E1 QUICK GUIDE Do You Need Help? Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., North American Pacific Time. 1-800-872-2228 from the U.S. 1-800-637-1648 from Canada 1-650-903-3866, worldwide FAX: 650-903-3867 customersvc@etoncorp.com www.etoncorp.com Mailing Address: etón Corporation 1015 Corporation Way Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA INTRODUCTION This Quick Guide outlines the basics for listening to AM, FM and Shortwave.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 62 E1 MANUAL APPENDIX - etón E1 QUICK GUIDE continued Sequentially press the button below MENU in the display until CLOCK MODES appears. If AUTO CLOCK SET is OFF, press 1 to turn it ON. If AUTO CLOCK DST is OFF, press 2 to turn it on if you want automatic daylight saving time (recommended). For LOCAL TIME OFFSET, if your country is east of the International Dateline, press 3 to set it to +.
E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 64 E1 MANUAL etón E1 SPECIFICATIONS Frequency Range • AM, LSB, USB: - LW: 100 to 500 kHz - MW: 500 to 1800 kHz - SW: 1800 to 30,000 kHz • FM: - 76 to 90 Mhz or 87 to 108 MHz, selectable Image Rejection • Greater than 70 dB, 0.1 to 30 MHz • Greater than 55 dB, 76 to 108 MHz Sensitivity: SSB (10 dB S+N/N) • Less than .25 :V 0.1 to 30 MHz (DX on) • Less than 0.5 :V, 0.1 to 30 MHz (Normal) Sensitivity: AM (10 dB S+N/N) (1000 Hz, 30% Mod) • Less than 2.0 :V. 0.
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E1_manual_eng_APR06.qrk 5/5/06 10:22 AM Page 68 www.etoncorp.com www.etoncorp.com etón Corporation Corporate Headquarters 1015 Corporation Way Palo Alto, California 94303 USA tel +1 650-903-3866 tel +1 800-872-2228 fax +1 650-903-3867 etón Corporation Berlin Office Rosenstrasse 2 D-10178 Berlin, Germany tel +49 [0]30 243102149 etón Corporation Toronto Office 1 Yonge Street, Suite 1801 Toronto, Ontario M5E 1W7 Canada tel +1 416-214-6885 v.
