VXA-700 S
PIRIT
O
PERATING
M
ANUAL
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A
DVANCED
O
PERATION
(
A
MATEUR
R
ADIO
B
AND
)
NOTICE! An Amateur Radio License is re-
quired for operation on Amateur Radio fre-
quencies.
Repeater Operation
Repeater stations, usually located on mountaintops or other
high locations, provide a dramatic extension of the com-
munication range for land-based low-powered hand-held
or mobile transceivers. The
VXA-700
includes a number
of features which make repeater operation simple and en-
joyable.
Repeater Shifts
Your
VXA-700
has been configured, at the factory, with
the repeater shift set to 600 kHz on the 2-m amateur band.
Depending on the part of the band in which you are oper-
ating, the repeater shift may be either downward (
–
) or
upward (
+
), and one of these icons will appear at the bot-
tom of the LCD when repeater shifts have been enabled.
Automatic Repeater Shift (ARS)
The
VXA-700
provides a convenient Automatic Repeater
Shift feature, which causes the appropriate repeater shift
to be automatically applied whenever you tune into the
designated repeater sub-bands in your country. These sub-
bands are shown at the right.
If the ARS feature does not appear to be working, you
may have accidentally disabled it.
To re-enable ARS:
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Press the
key, then press the
key to activate
the Menu (“SET”) mode.
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Rotate the
DIAL
selector knob to select Menu Item
“
4. Transmit
,” then press the
key..
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Rotate the
DIAL
selector knob to select Sub Menu
Item “
3. ARS
,” then press the
] key..
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Press the
key again to enable adjustment of this
Menu Item.
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Rotate the
DIAL
selector knob to select “
ON
” (to en-
able Automatic Repeater Shift).
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When you have made your selection, press the
key to save the new setting, then press the
PTT
key
repetitively until the radio exits to normal operation.
European Version
Version A
145.1
145.5
145.6 145.8
146.0
146.4
147.0
147.6
148.0
146.6
147.4
ARS-Repeater Subbands