Icom IC-R5 · receive only · Belgium
Learn to listen with your IC-R5
Step-by-step lessons on a 3D model of the radio. Each lesson lights up the key to press, checks that you did it, and explains what happened, from switching on to scanning, walkie-talkies and the International Space Station.
13 lessons · about 73 minutes · English & Nederlands
Drag to turn · scroll over the knob to tune
The lessons
- Lesson 1 · 5 min Meet your IC-R5A tour of every key, the dial, the display and the connectors.
- Lesson 2 · 3 min Batteries, antenna and powerGet the radio ready and switch it on and off.
- Lesson 3 · 5 min Volume and squelchSet the volume and the squelch, and listen past it with monitor.
- Lesson 4 · 6 min Bands and tuningFrequencies, bands, 1 MHz jumps and the tuning step.
- Lesson 5 · 5 min Your first station: FM radioTune in VRT stations and read the signal meter.
- Lesson 6 · 4 min Receive modes: AM, FM and WFMWhy the mode must match the signal.
- Lesson 7 · 4 min What you may listen to in BelgiumFree to listen to, off-limits, and what to do by accident.
- Lesson 8 · 6 min Memory channelsStore stations and call them back instantly.
- Lesson 9 · 7 min ScanningLet the radio search a band or your memories.
- Lesson 10 · 7 min PMR446 and CBLicence-free walkie-talkies and citizens band, and the 6.25 kHz step.
- Lesson 11 · 6 min Radio amateurs and the ISSThe 2 m band, repeaters and the space station's downlink.
- Lesson 12 · 8 min Better receptionAntennas, the built-in bar antenna, the attenuator and shortwave.
- Lesson 13 · 7 min Lock, settings and resetKey lock, set mode, the VOL swap and both resets.
Receive only
The IC-R5 cannot transmit, so owning and using it needs no licence.
What's allowed in Belgium
Broadcast, radio amateurs, CB and PMR446 are free to listen to. Aviation, maritime and emergency services are not.
Frequency guide
VRT stations per region, PMR446 and CB channels, amateur and ISS frequencies.