Press and hold Scan/Mon for 3 seconds to enter monitor mode and listen for weak signals on
the current channel. You can also listen to the volume level of the radio when you are not
receiving. This allows you to adjust the volume if necessary.
Push-to-Talk Timeout Timer
To prevent accidental transmissions and save battery life, radio will stop transmitting if you press
PTT button for 180 seconds continuously.
Selecting the Channel
The channel is the frequency of the radio uses to transmit.
1. Press the Menu/Lock button until the channel number starts to flash.
2. Press ▲/▼ to change the channel.
3. Press the PTT button to exit menu or menu to continue setup.
Selecting the Interference Eliminator Code
Sub-Codes help minimize interference by blocking transmission from unknown sources. Your
radio has 121 Sub-Codes.
To set the code for a channel:
1. Press Menu until the code starts to flash.
2. Press ▲/▼ to select code.
3. Press the PTT button to exit menu or menu to continue setup.
help minimize interference by blocking transmission from unknown sources. Your radio has
121 Sub-Codes.
4. To set the code for a channel:
5. Press Menu until the code starts to flash.
6. Press ▲/▼ to select code.
7. Press the PTT button to exit menu or menu to continue setup.
Setting and Transmitting Call Tones
Your radio can transmit different call tones to other radios in your group when you pressed
button.
To set a call tone:
1. Press Menu until call tone ‘CA’ appears. The current call tone setting flashes.
2. Press ▲/▼ to change and listen to the call tone.
3. Press the PTT button to exit menu or menu to continue setup.
Voice Operated Transmission (VOX)
Transmission is initiated by speaking into the microphone of the radio instead of pressing the
PTT button.
1. To activate VOX, press Menu button with four times until appears on the display. The
current setting will flash..
2. Sensitivity level. Press menu until icon appears on the display. Press ▲/▼ to select
sensitivity.
3. Press the PTT button to exit menu or menu to continue setup.
L3 = High Sensitivity for quiet environments
L2 = Medium Sensitivity for most environments
L1 = Low Sensitivity for noisy environments
L0 = Turn Off VOX function
Dual Channel Monitor
Enable you to scan current channel and another channel alternately.
1. Press Menu until ‘CH’ appears on the display.
2. Press ▲/▼ to select channels.
3. Press the PTT button to exit menu or menu to continue setup.
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Keypad Tones
You may enable or disable the keypad tones. You will hear the key tone each time a button
pushed.
• To disable/disable keypad tones, power OFF your radio. Press ▼ button & power ON radio at
the same time until you see the display.
Roger Tone
You can set your radio to transmit a unique tone when you finish transmitting.
• To disable/enable roger tone, power OFF your radio. Press ▲ button & power ON radio at the
same time until you see the display.
Setting High Low Power
1. Press Menu until ‘Pr’ appears on the display.
2. Press ▲/▼ to select HI or LO. (HI- High Power, LO- Low Power)
3. Press the PTT button to exit menu or menu to continue setup.
Keypad Lock
To avoid accidentally changing your radio settings:
1. To lock the radio, press and hold MENU/ button until the key lock indicator icon on
display appear.
2. To unlock the radio, press and hold MENU/ button until key lock indicator icon on
display disappear.
Scanning Channels
Use the scan function search all channels for transmission from unknown sources; find
someone in your group who has accidentally changed channels or find unused channels quickly
for own usage.
To Start Scanning
1. Press the Scan/Mon button briefly to turn on the scan function. The scan icon will appear
on the display and the radio begins to scan through the channel & sub-codes.
2. When the radio detects channel activities matching the channel and sub-code combination,
the radio stops scanning and you can hear the transmission. Press the PTT/Menu/Scan/Call
button to exit the scan function.
Advanced Scanning
3. If the radio stops scanning on a channel you do not want to listen to, you may temporarily
remove that channel from the scan list by long press the ▲ or▼ key for more than 3 seconds.
This channel will be temporarily removed from the scan list. Press ▲ or ▼to resume
scanning. To restore the channel, turn the radio off and then back on.
Priority scan
4. Before entering scan, current channel and sub-code are the priority channel and sub-code.
When a radio receives transmission from priority channel and a sub-code, the radio will switch
to priority channel and sub-code without completing the whole scanning cycle.
LED Lamp
Your radio has a built-in-LED Lamp.
Press ‘LAMP’ button once to turn ON the lamp, press again to turn OFF the lamp.