PREPARATION FOR SHIPMENT OR STORAGE.

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WARNING

The lithium battery used with your manpack radio is hazardous if misused or tampered with before, during,

or after discharge. Strictly observe the following precautions to prevent injury to personnel or damage to

equipment.

DO NOT heat, short circuit, incinerate, crush, puncture, disassemble, or otherwise mutilate battery.

DO NOT recharge or test batteries for capacity.

DO NOT store battery in equipment during periods of non-use.

TURN OFF equipment immediately if you feel battery case becoming very hot, hear battery venting

(hissing or burping), or smell irritating gas (sulphur dioxide). Remove battery only after it cools to the

touch; then return it to supply for disposal.

Unpack the included batteries from their protective wrapping and install into the ANCD. See Figure 3-1 for

typical installation.

ANCD is ready for operation.

2-10. PREPARATION FOR SHIPMENT OR STORAGE.

To prepare the ANCD for shipment or storage, perform the following steps:

Zeroize the ANCD to remove data from memory locations.

If the ANCD is going into long-term storage, remove batteries (refer to Figure 3-1).

Repack the ANCD in reverse order of the steps shown in paragraph 2-6.

2-11. FUNCTIONS.

The ANCD enables a radio operator to load all required COMSEC keys and FH data in minimum time and

with minimum effort using a single, user-friendly fill device.

The ANCD replaces the paper SOI for operators below Net Control Station (NCS) level by readily providing

essential SOI information In the display window upon request. SOI information may be brought up from

memory and displayed by requesting a specific item or through use of the "FIND" feature built into the

ANCD. At the discretion of unit commanders, NCSs may continue to have occasional need for paper SOI

extracts of authentication tables, brevity codes, and other such items too lengthy to load into the ANCD.

The ANCD is used as a SOI Data Storage Device. SOI information is stored in an ANCD in up to two sets of

five time periods (normally 24-hour days) of data. One set contains time periods (days) 1-5, the other 6-10.

One of these periods is designated as current. The following are SOI items:

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