VXA-700 SPIRIT OPERATING MANUAL
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ADVANCED OPERATION
(
AMATEUR RADIO BAND
)
NOTICE! An Amateur Radio License is re-
quired for operation on Amateur Radio fre-
quencies.
Repeater Operation
Repeater stations, usually located on mountaintops or other
high locations, provide a dramatic extension of the com-
munication range for land-based low-powered hand-held
or mobile transceivers. The VXA-700 includes a number
of features which make repeater operation simple and en-
joyable.
Repeater Shifts
Your VXA-700 has been configured, at the factory, with
the repeater shift set to 600 kHz on the 2-m amateur band.
Depending on the part of the band in which you are oper-
ating, the repeater shift may be either downward (–) or
upward (+), and one of these icons will appear at the bot-
tom of the LCD when repeater shifts have been enabled.
Automatic Repeater Shift (ARS)
The VXA-700 provides a convenient Automatic Repeater
Shift feature, which causes the appropriate repeater shift
to be automatically applied whenever you tune into the
designated repeater sub-bands in your country. These sub-
bands are shown at the right.
If the ARS feature does not appear to be working, you
may have accidentally disabled it.
To re-enable ARS:
r Press the key, then press the key to activate
the Menu (“SET”) mode.
r Rotate the DIAL selector knob to select Menu Item
“4. Transmit,” then press the key..
r Rotate the DIAL selector knob to select Sub Menu
Item “3. ARS,” then press the ] key..
r Press the key again to enable adjustment of this
Menu Item.
r Rotate the DIAL selector knob to select “ON” (to en-
able Automatic Repeater Shift).
r When you have made your selection, press the
key to save the new setting, then press the PTT key
repetitively until the radio exits to normal operation.
European Version
Version A
145.1 145.5
145.6 145.8
146.0 146.4 147.0 147.6 148.0
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ARS-Repeater Subbands
