XIEGU G90 Cheat Sheet

XIEGU G90 CHEAT SHEET
This cheat sheet is intended to augment the current G90 user manual and reflects the G90's functionality in version 1.71 of its
firmware. Significant changes with V1.71 are indicated
there are a few versions of the G90 user manual so the page numbers cited here may vary depending on the manual you have.
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BASIC
CONTROLS AND
BUTTONS

Power Button

Power on or off
turn the
"Vol"
This rotary control sets the
audio output level
speaker or headphones.
Unmarked Lower This is a
control ('MFC')
Left Rotary Control
('MFC')
variety of purposes.
New in V1.71: Set DSP filter
center frequency and
bandwidth.
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the G90 and
Longer press to power on the G90
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display off
Longer press to power off the G90
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A short press will turn off the G90 display, but the radio continues to operate. A short press or
using any other G90 control will restore the display.
Note: press this control to route the audio signal to headphones or other audio device plugged into
from the
the headphone icon jack on the left side of the G90.
multifunction .A short press of the MFC begins a DSP filter configuration process:
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used for a
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Note: A short MFC press allowed setting the squelch in the prior firmware release. This is
no longer available. See the long MFC button press Squelch level setting below.
Long press the MFC to bring up 5 choices that may be selected for basic use when the MFC is
rotated: Rotate the tuning control to select the desired choice from the five. Press the 'CMP' button to
save the selection. The choices are:
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this way. See the full V1.71 release notes at the end of this document. Note
With the first MFC press, a display of "Cxxx"("xxx" is the center freq) with a
vertical green line at the center allows using the MFC to set the filters center
frequency.
With the second MFC press a display of "Bxxx"("xxx" is the bandwidth) with two
vertical green lines at the sides allows using the MFC to set the filter's bandwidth.
The last press of the MFC completes the process.
100 KHZ frequency step size. This allows quickly adjusting the received frequency in
100KHZ steps with the tuning control. This 100KHZ step size is fixed. This is the initial,
default setting for the MFC.
Squelch level setting. This brings up the squelch level setting where the tuning control can
select the desired squelch setting. Pressing the tuning control saves the squelch setting,
PO Level ... quickly adjust the power output level with the tune control. Then press the tune
control to save the power setting.
Key Speed ... use the tune control to set the CW keying speed. Press the tune control to
save the setting.
FFT Scale ... use the tune control to set the base line of the FFT display up or down,
the MFC three times to complete this new FFT scale setting.
1
Press