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FT-7900R O
PERATING
M
ANUAL
The
FT-7900R
is a ruggedly-built, high quality Dual Band FM transceiver providing 50
Watts of power output on the 144 MHz Amateur band and 45 Watts on the 430 MHz Ama-
teur band.
The high power output of the
FT-7900R
is produced by its RD70HVF1 Power MOS FET
amplifier, with a direct-flow heat sink and thermostatically-controlled cooling fan maintain-
ing a safe temperature for the transceiver’s circuitry.
Featuring 1055 memory channels which enable the storage of Independent Transmit Fre-
quencies (“Odd Split”), and built-in CTCSS and DCS encoder/decoder circuits, the
FT-7900R
includes also provision for remote-head mounting, utilizing the optional
YSK-7800
Separation Kit, which allows installation even in the most compact of cars.
Additional features include a convenient access key for Vertex Standard’s WIRES
™
(Wide-
Coverage Internet Repeater Enhancement System), a transmit Time-Out Timer (TOT), Au-
tomatic Power-Off (APO), Automatic Repeater Shift (ARS), plus Yaesu’s exclusive ARTS
™
(Auto-Range Transponder System) which “beeps” the user when you move out of communi-
cations range with another ARTS
TM
equipped station. And an RF squelch circuit allows the
owner to set the squelch to open at a programmable setting of the S-Meter, thus reducing
guesswork in setting the squelch threshold.
We recommend that you read this manual in its entirety, so as to understand fully the many
features of your new
FT-7900R
transceiver.
I
NTRODUCTION
