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DirecTV has owner’s manuals available in pdf for DirecTV, GE, Hughes, LG, Mitsubishi, Philips, Proscan, RCA, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, and Zenith DirecTV equipment.
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Toshiba has many of its owner’s manuals available for download in pdf format. Select the type of product and drill down until you find your model.
Click Here For Operating Manuals for Panasonic Products (panasonic.com) Panasonic has pdf versions of its owner’s manuals for many types of Panasonic products. You can search by model number, or select a category and drill down.
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Kicker has installation manuals, technical manuals and Theile/Small parameters available for download.
After clicking the link, you’ll need to click the Support Button, then select Technical Support, then click Manuals. After that, follow Kicker’s instructions.
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Rockford Fosgate has many of its owner’s manuals available for download in pdf format. The link above will take you to a page that lists the model years. Select your model’s year and drill down until you locate the manual.
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Sony has some of its home and car audio/video owner’s manuals available for download in pdf format. The link above will take you to a page where you can search by model number. You will want to enter the entire model number. For example, when I entered xr-ca350 no results were returned, but when I entered xr-ca350x, 3 results were returned.
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Pioneer has many of its home audio/video manuals available for download in pdf format. After following the link, select your product category and drill down to find your model.
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Pioneer has many of its car audio/video and security manuals available for download in pdf format. After following the link, select your product line and product category, and then drill down to find your model.
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JVC has some of its car and home audio/video owner’s manuals available for download in pdf format. They also have gif’s of some of the car receiver plug pinouts. The link above will take you to a page with a search box. Just enter the model number in the search box.
Click Here For Yaesu Owner’s Manuals (yaesu.com)
Yaesu has some of its owner’s manuals available for download in pdf. The link above will take you to a search page where you can enter the model number. When entering the model, you will want to enter the hyphen in the model name. For example, I got 2 results when I entered ft817 as the search criteria, but I got 9 results when I entered ft-817. I also noticed that no results were returned when I tried to find a manual for either the FT-747 or FT-757.
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Update September 15, 2008:
It appears that Yaesu only has current models on their website. I found older models at the [Fox Tango Library Website](http://foxtango.ham-radio-op.net/ “Fox Tango Library Website”).
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Icom has manuals, brochures, and catalogs for its ham radios, marine radios, avionics radios, family radios, land mobile radios, and receivers available to download in pdf format.
They also have images of many of their radios availble for download, too. The images are zipped tif files.
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Kenwood has many of its ham radio owner’s manuals, service bulletins, application notes, brochures, and connector diagrams available for download in pdf format.
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Kenwood has many of its home and car audio and video owner’s manuals available for download in pdf format.
The Philippine Macintosh Users Group has a review of the KCA-420I. They liked the great sound, the small size, easy install, the charging of the Ipod while it’s connected to the KCA-420I, and the ability of the Ipod to go into Pause mode after the vehicle’s ignition is turned off. They did not like the user interface. They also have a short video showing what it’s like to use the KCA-420I.
Which Alpine headunits are compatible with the KCA-420I Alpine-to-Ipod interface?
Alpine states on page 6 of the KCA-420I’s owner’s manual that it will only work with 2004 and up AI-NET compatible head units. Here’s a list of the head units Alpine says are compatible:
There’s a thread on iPodLounge where people who have installed the KCA-420I discuss their experiences. Some of them got the KCA-420I to work with older AI-NET head units that are not in Alpine’s list. Some of the head units that worked: