User's Manual

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Useful functions
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This function automatically searches for the CTCSS tone an incoming signal might carry. This
feature is useful to search for the encoding tone of a repeater, or to communicate with a
station operating in TSQ (CTCSS squelch) mode.
1. Press FUNC key then repeat pressing
key while FUNC appears on the display to
enter the CTCSS decode setting mode.
appears on the display.
2. Press and hold dial knob or press the UP/
DOWN keys on the microphone for more
than 1 second but less than 2 seconds to
start scanning. It scans 39 tones in order.
3. When searching, the [T SQL] icon will
flash on the display, tone scanning stops
when the matching tone is detected.
4. The tone scan won’t resume unless the
operation in step 2 is repeated.
Press any key (other than UP/DOWN
keys) to exit.