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Call Tone Transmission
If you want to contact someone in your
party, press the
call/vox
button. ”CALL”
and the transmit icon appear on the LCD
for 2 seconds. Anyone on the same channel
and the same CTCSS code will be alerted
with your Call Tone.
Monitoring Weather Channels
Your radio has 7 preprogrammed weather channel frequencies, represented by numbers 1-7.
To listen to the weather channels in your area:
1. Press the
wx/ctcss
button. The radio
will begin scanning automatically.
The
scan
and icon
appear
while scanning.
2. Scanning stops when the radio finds an
active channel. It stays on the channel
until its transmission ends, and resumes
scanning after a 2 second delay.
3. To exit from this weather channel mode, press the
wx/ctcss
button again.
The
call/vox
,
on/off volume
,
PTT
,
MON
, and
light/lock
buttons will
not be locked.
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