5
E. VFOs and Memories; Repeater Operations
The radio has two VFOs, labeled A and B. In addition, there are 495 “regular” memories
plus a handful of special memories. The memories are organized in five banks of 99
memories each, called Bank A through Bank E. So the numbering scheme for memories
is as follows: A00 ~ A99, B00 ~ B99, etc.
In addition to these memories, there are two Call Channels on the 2m band, labeled
144
C1
and
144
C2,and two Call Channels on 70 cm, labeled
430
C1 and
430
C2. (This sounds
incredibly non-intuitive to me, but that’s how they did it.)
1
VFO Operation. Push the MENU button
repeatedly to access Menu-1. Touch the V/M
soft key to switch between VFO and Memory
mode. You will see the mode displayed
above the channel number. You can also
touch the channel number or VFO/MEMO
icon to toggle back and forth if you don’t
happen to be in Menu 1.
While in VFO mode, touch the A/B button to
toggle between VFO-A and VFO-B. Touch
and hold the A/B button to equalize both
VFOs to the currently displayed frequency.
Memory Operation. While in memory mode,
use the memory channel selector knob,
located below the volume knob, to select the
desired memory. The ring around the
memory channel selector knob is used to
select one of the five memory banks.
When you select a memory channel, the radio chooses the saved frequency, repeater shift,
operating mode, transmit power, tone or digital squelch encode/decode parameters, and
(on HF) filter settings. You can change any of these settings, but reselecting the same
memory a second time will restore the original (saved) settings.
Repeater Shift. The radio automatically selects the appropriate repeater shift, in
accordance with the ARRL Band Plan, when tuned to a repeater output frequency. This
setting can be overridden using the DUP (duplex) soft key found in Menu-2.
Listen on the Input. When operating on a repeater, you can temporarily reverse the
repeater input and output frequencies by holding down the XFC (Xmit Frequency Check)
1
There are also a handful of memories that are used to set limits for scanning, but we won’t go into those.
The scanning memories are labeled 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, and 3B. Just don’t confuse memory A01 (a
regular memory channel) with memory 1A (used only with the scanning feature).
Figure 3
