is designed and built
with Icom’s state of the art technology and craftsmanship.
With proper care, this product should provide you with
years of trouble-free operation.
IMPORTANT
READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS carefully and complete-
ly before using the transceiver.
SAVE THIS INSTRUCTION MANUAL — This in-
struction manual contains important operating instruc-
tions for the IC-M73/IC-M73EURO.
EXPLICIT DEFINITIONS
WORD DEFINITION
RDANGER!
Personal death, serious injury or an ex-
plosion may occur.
RWARNING!
Personal injury, re hazard or electric
shock may occur.
CAUTION
Equipment damage may occur.
NOTE
If disregarded, inconvenience only. No
risk of personal injury, re or electric
shock.
FEATURES
☞ Submersible construction
Built tough to withstand the punishing marine environ-
ment, the IC-M73/IC-M73EURO’s submersible con-
struction meets IPX8 ratings of the International Stan-
dard IEC 60529 (2001).
In addition, the speaker grill structure with a water self-
draining Aquaquake function is helpful for easily remov-
ing rain or seawater.
☞ Dualwatch and Tri-watch functions
Convenient functions that allow you to monitor the dis-
tress channel (Ch 16) while receiving one other channel
of your choice (Dualwatch), or while receiving one other
channel of your choice and the Call channel (Tri-watch*).
See page 16 for details.
* May not be available depending on the transceiver version.
☞ Voice recorder function
IC-M73/IC-M73EURO has a voice recorder function*
which can automatically, or manually, record the re-
ceived signal. The automatic (60 seconds) and manual
(30 seconds) recordings are recorded separately into
memory in the transceiver.
* May not be available depending on the transceiver version.
☞ Bass booster function
The TX/RX bass booster functions* boosts the frequen-
cies to increase the bass level, if desired.
* May not be available depending on the transceiver version.