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bands.
Numeric keypad
The BaoFeng BF-F8HP hand-held transceiver comes standard with a full numeric keypad.
Figure 2.3. BaoFeng BF-F8HP, keypad
The numeric keys have their secondary function printed on them (in reality it's rather menu
short-cuts, more on that in Chapter 4,
Working the menu system
).
The
and
keys on the other hand have actual secondary functions, scan and keypad
lock respectively.
Pound # Key
In channel mode,
also acts as a transmit power shift key. While in channel mode,
momentarily press
to change between High, Mid, and Low transmit power. Do note that
this is does not alter the transmit power stored to memory for that channel; it only affects the
current session. Switching to another channel or another operating mode (including broadcast
FM) will reset transmit power to what's stored in channel memory.