Originally Posted by
MetOffice
Just got our group PA28 back from its annual with a new Icom A220 fitted in place of our King box. Very modern, large clear display and good sound quality. Went for a first flight with it and quite impressed. When I landed I thought I'd try switching it into 8.33 mode - so into the setup menu select 8.33khz but now it's in set 8.33 I can't seem to get any 25khz frequencies to come up on the display, they just don't exist! Put in Cumbernauld 120.605 fine but then tried Scottish 119.875 & it wasn't there. What am I doing wrong?
This is apparently how the A220 works. It's design was based on the assumption that all frequencies thereafter would be 8.33 based and 25 kHz would not be required. Hence it cannot handle both schemes at once. I have one on order and just found this out yesterday. I would imagine that Icom will produce a software change that will correct this - I hope so anyway.