User's Manual

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1. Identify the source and destination radios. Turn both radios on. Connect the two radios together using a
male 1/8” to male 1/8” cloning cable. Both radios will show the clone mode display:
LCD illustration (same as 20-526)
2. Press PROG on the source radio. The source radio display will indicate:
LCD illustration (same as 20-526)
If you wish to replace the V-Scanner memory contents in the destination radio with the V-Scanner memory
contents of the source radio, press ENT now. All eleven V-Scanner folders will be transferred from the
source radio to the destination radio. While the transfer is taking place, the destination radio will display:
LCD illustration (same as 20-526)
Do not disturb the source radio, destination radio or cable until the transfer is complete. Interrupting the
transfer may result in corrupted data. Transferring all data will take approximately four minutes.
3. When the transfer is complete press ENT on the source radio and remove the cloning cable. Both radios
will restart.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 to clone multiple radios.
Selective Cloning
Selective cloning allows you to choose the specific source and destination folders within a local and remote
radio.
CAUTION: This feature should be used with caution – it overwrites the selected destination V-Scanner
folder with the contents of the selected source V-Scanner folder. This operation cannot be undone.
1. Identify the local and remote radios. Turn both radios on.
2. On the local radio, press PROG FUNC PROG to enter the V-Scanner menu, then press SRCH. The local
radio display will indicate:
LCD illustration (same as 20-526)
3. Connect the two radios together using a male 1/8” phone plug to male 1/8” phone plug cloning cable.
The local radio will handshake with the remote radio to prepare for the cloning session. During V-Scanner
selective cloning operations, the local radio controls the session for both sending and receiving folders to
and from the remote radio. Once the radios are connected, the local radio display will indicate: