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- Subject: Yaesu FT-470 Crossband Repeater Function
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- Well, since there's a lot of mod' req's floating around, I thought I'd
- mention something I discovered while attempting to perform a clone data
- dump on the Yaesu FT-470.
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- The Yaesu Customer Service Rep' that I called today claimed that the
- FT-470 *does* have a cloning capability despite the lack of instructions
- in the manual. Supposedly, the way to get into Clone Mode is to turn on
- the radio with the F/M key depressed.
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- HOWEVER! If you turn on the radio with the RPT key depressed, the radio
- becomes a crossband repeater. Try it! Dial up two frequencies you want
- to crosslink (be sure to pay attention to transmit offsets, if any), turn
- the radio off, depress the RPT key, and turn it back on. The tone
- encode/decode flags and the -+ flags will be flashing. When either
- band's squelch opens, the other band is moved into the primary frequency
- display and the transmitter keys. Note that the power output is
- decreased to Low power. One note: the crossband audio isn't great,
- probably because it's whatever comes out the speaker and gets fed back
- into the mike. I suppose if you got serious, you could create a short
- interface cable to plug into the top of the radio.
-
- And back to the data dump: I'm hoping to duplicate the efforts of
- another ham who posted on this network about his success in modifying
- the FT-411's dump. My problem was that I saw nothing coming out of the
- clone port when I hit the ^ key. Ideas?
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- Collier Chun
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