Ctcss Operations; Setting The Tone Frequency; Enabling Tone Mode; Setting Repeater Offsets - Icom IC-2820H Basic Operations

CTCSS
Repeater Offsets
Cross Band
Repeater
Operations

CTCSS Operations

Enabling CTCSS involves two steps. You have to set the Tone Frequency (Pg. 32) and
enable the Tone mode (Pg. 30).
Setting the Tone Frequency (Pg. 32)
1. Push the FUNCTION key to display the function guide.
2. Push the MENU (V/MHZ-SCAN) key (Far right).
3. Rotate DIAL to select DUP/TONE, then push MAIN-BAND.
4. Rotate DIAL to select REPEATER TONE then push MAIN-BAND.
5. Rotate DIAL to select the tone you want, and then push MAIN-BAND to set.
6. Push BACK (V/MHZ-SCAN) (far right) twice to exit and return to normal op-
erations
Enabling Tone Mode (Pg. 30)
1. Push TONE-DTMF to enable TONE. It rotates through TONE, T.SQL, and dis-
abled.
Setting Repeater Offsets (Pg. 30)
The IC-2820 comes preset with the following shifts: On 2m, 600 kHz; on 70cm, 5 MHz
To manually set the positive (+) or negative (-) or disable the offset, push the DUP-
MONI button to change between off, DUP-, and DUP+
This works ONLY for the active frequency.
Enabling the cross band function (Icom KB 743G461664)
1. Configure the band(s) as needed with power levels and TONE as needed.
2. Press and hold both left and right MAIN dials then the FUNCTION key to-
gether. After two beeps, the lock key will flash in the upper right of the display.
3. When in cross band mode, the VHF frequency is on the left and the UHF fre-
quency is on the right.
4. Repeat step 2 to return to normal operations.
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IC-2820 Quick Reference Guide v.1.4