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This is what I found.
Your mileage may vary.
Use at your own risk.
Don't press P1 as it sends touch tone sequences that will cause unrest.
P1 hold / long-press P1 will lock up the radio requiring power off to recover.

Ham operator functions in rational user order

Toggle front panel Lock Function F5
Toggle VFO to memory mode P3 Only goes to Memory mode if there is at least one memory saved
Tune in Megahertz hops P4 Press P4 again to go back to standard steps
Change tuning step Setup Menu 01 See Setup Menus chapter, below
Toggle squelch Open P2 P2 toggles squelch from as-configured to open and back
Set squelch Level Setup Menu 22 See Setup Menus chapter, below
Set repeater offset Press and hold F4 to see and change offset
Press and hold F4 again to change direction/simplex
Repeat hold F4 to change again.
F5 or kerchunk to save and exit
Set PL encode/Decode mode and frequency P5 See P5 method below.
Save VFO to memory channel Function P3 See "Program a memory channel" section below.
This is effective in both VFO and Memory mode
Repeater reverse Mic pad Func 6
Set power level Setup Menu 07 This value gets saved with a memory

Notes:
Settings in Setup Menu and front panel buttons made while in memory mode will be lost when the channel is changed or when toggle to VFO is performed.
Power level and other Setup Menu functions can be saved into a memory.

Program a memory channel

  1. Press P3 to go to VFO.
  2. Select the frequency.
  3. Press P4-hold to set the offset (see below),
  4. Press P5 to enter Tone (see below).
  5. Press Function to start memory save procedure.
  6. Rotate selector to find a memory channel to write (note that the M flashes if the channel is empty)
  7. Press P3 to write the memory. (Note: Func P3 writes a memory. Here we just separated the Function and P3 for clarity)

All front panel functions


P1 is send DTMF memory
P1 hold is CLONE
P2 is squelch open/close
P2 hold is display-voltage
P3 is switch from VFO to memory or back
P3 hold is start scan up when in VFO
P4 is tuning-steps-is-megahertz when in VFO
P4 hold is repeater frequency offset when in VFO press and hold P4 to change offset. repeat as needed. P3 to exit
P5 enable Tx tone and set transmit tone frequency. Press F5 Press F5 again to enable and set Rx tone decode. Press F5 again to switch to digital tone mode and select option. Use tuning knob to change frequency. Kerchunk or press F4 to save selection.
F5 hold goes into the DTMF memory selector. selector knob selects DTMF memory# Press and hold F5 again erases the selected menu. mic keyboard enters DTMF pattern
Function P1 - Selects next Tx power level, Hi Mid Lo Hi (note “Hi” is not displayed)
Function P2 - Toggle Mic audio compressor on/off. Note square wave symbol in upper right.
Function P3 - Write memory channel (works in VFO mode OR memory mode)
Function P4 - Radio sounds the error tone in VFO or memory mode.
Function P5 - Toggle the Lock (of the control panel)
Mic pad Func 6 repeater reverse
Mic pad Func 9 does talk-around

Setup Menus

press FUNCTION for several seconds then F1 and F2 to select an option
F5 confirms and exits
selector knob changes a value
  • menu 01 selects VHF channel step 2.5khz 5, 6.25, 8.3?, 10, 12.5, 20, 25. 30, 50 only accessible if in VFO mode
  • menu 02 controls 2-tone, 5-tone, DTMF, sending.
  • menu 03, 04, 05, 06 seem to be related to tone signaling. not typical ham stuff
  • menu 07 HIGH/MID/LOW selection
  • menu 08 controls tx and rx bandwidth. BAND-25 is our standard
  • menu 09 disables/enables the transmitter. Use this to make a receive-only channel.
  • menu 10 busy-channel-lockout. Can’t transmit if there is a carrier detected.
  • menu 11 name a channel - knob selects letter, F5 go to next, F3 go back, F4 exit. this does not seem to cause the name to show up though.
  • menu 12 repeater reverse
  • menu 13 talk-around, i.e. simplex on the output, asserts CTCSS as configured for this channel
  • menu 14 voice compander selector knob chooses on/off
  • menu 15 Scrambler enable 8 groups with selector knob F5 to confirm
  • menu 16 DTMF self ID (can’t be changed?)
  • menu 17 self-ID inquiry (i don’t know how to change this)
  • menu 18 beep enable/disable selector knob chooses
  • menu 19 Time Out Timer
  • menu 20 APO Automatic Power Off selector knob OFF 30 60 120
  • menu 21 DTMF Transmitting time selector knob 30 50 100 200 300 — 30 is fastest
  • menu 22 SQL Squelch level selector knob OF 01 02 03 …. 19 20 0F 01 02 …
  • menu 23 SCAN selector knob TO CO SE TO pause for 15 seconds if busy CO pause until signal goes away, SE stop forever if signal present
  • menu 24 LED Backlight 01 02 03 … 31 32 01 01 is off 32 is brightest
  • menu 25 backlight color selector 1 2 3 1=blue 2=red 3=purple
  • menu 26 DSP display mode FR CH NM FR is frequency CH is channel # NM is name from setup menu #11
  • menu 27 TB Tone Burst 1750 2100 1000 1450 hertz.
  • menu 28 CODE Power on password ON or OF leave it OF
  • menu 29 BOOK Address list.
  • menu 30 RESTORE Restore some of the radio to factory default FACT or SETUP FACT resets channel signaling and early menus? SETUP restores menu 18 to 28 to factory defaults

    • I suspect some of the features referred to in the setup menu must be programmed into the radio using some PC application.

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