Handheld Radio Field Guide

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Field programming for more than 85 radios

This guide is an indispensable quick reference for programming radios in the field. It describes, in plain language and clear pictures, how to set up a radio using the radio keypad, without cloning cables or additional software.

It includes many of the common radios you'll find in the field—and some that you may run into only once or twice.

For each radio, you'll get instructions for:

  • Setting frequency, repeater offset, direction, tones, squelch and power levels
  • Writing to a memory
  • Locking and unlocking the radio
  • Resetting the radio to a default configuration
  • Getting out of weird modes unique to each radio

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If you deal with different kinds of handheld ham radios, you need this book!

Programming the Yaesu FT-60

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Field programming the FT-60

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This is just one chapter of more than 85 in the Handheld Radio Field Guide.

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Programming the Baofeng UV-5R

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Field programming the UV-5R

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The Handheld Radio Field Guide is available from:

Program the Alinco DJ-162, Alinco DJ-175, Alinco DJ-180, Alinco DJ-190, Alinco DJ-500T Gen 2, Alinco DJ-596, Alinco DJ-C5, Alinco DJ-G29T, Alinco DJ-MD5, Alinco DJ-S11, Alinco DJ-V5, AnyTone AT-D868UV/AT-D878UV, AnyTone NSTIG-8R, Azden AZ-21A, Baofeng UV-100/UV-200/UV-3R, Baofeng UV-5R/BF-F5/BF-F8, Baofeng UV-82, BridgeCom BCH-220, Harris Unity XG-100P, Hytera AR482G, Icom IC-P2AT, Icom IC-T70A, Icom IC-V8, Icom IC-V80 HD, Icom IC-V86/IC-U86, Icom IC-W32A, Icom ID-31A, Icom ID-51A, Kenwood TH-215A, Kenwood TH-78A, Kenwood TH-D7A, Kenwood TH-D72A, Kenwood TH-D74A, Kenwood TH-F6A, Kenwood TH-K20A, Midland 73-030, Quansheng UV-R50, Radioddity GD-77, Radio Shack HTX-200, Radio Shack HTX-202, Radio Shack HTX-245, Radio Shack HTX-420, RELM RPV599A Plus, Thales 25, TERA TR-590, Tytera TYT MD-2017, Tytera TYT MD-380, Tytera TYT TH-F8, Tytera TYT TH-UV88, Wouxun KG-UVD1P, -UV2D, -UV3D, Wouxun KG-UV3X Pro, Wouxun KG-UV6D, KG-UV6X, Wouxun KG-UV8D, Wouxun KG-UV9D, Yaesu FT-11R, Yaesu FT-1D, Yaesu FT-209R/FT-209RH, Yaesu FT-25, Yaesu FT-252, Yaesu FT-257, Yaesu FT-270, Yaesu FT-2D, Yaesu FT-3D, Yaesu FT-4XR, Yaesu FT-50, Yaesu FT-530, Yaesu FT-60, Yaesu FT-65, Yaesu FT-70D, Yaesu VX-150, Yaesu VX-170, Yaesu VX-1R, Yaesu VX-6R, Yaesu VX-7R, Yaesu VX-8DR, Zastone ZT-V8

About Andrew

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Andrew Cornwall, KF7CCC, VE1CCC, is active in the emergency communications community in Arizona. He has managed and taken part in large scale communications exercises and public service events.has worked communications exercises and public service events. He is an ARES Emergency Coordinator, a manager of the Arizona Emergency Net—Maricopa training net, and an ICS Incident Communication Center Manager (INCM) and Auxiliary Communications (AUXCOMM) resource. He is a trainer and volunteer examiner.

At events, incidents, and classes, Andrew has run into many handheld ham radios that are tricky to program. In those situations, coordinators often don't have time to help every ham with a problem radio. Andrew wrote the Handheld Radio Field Guide so a coordinator could hand it to a ham with a programming problem.

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