Activating the Enhanced Paging & Code Squelch System
1. Press and hold in the
[
MHz
(
SET
)]
key for one second,
then rotate the DIAL knob to select “
32 PAGER
”.
2. Press the
[
MHz
(
SET
)]
key, then rotate the DIAL knob to
set this Menu item to “
ON
”.
3. Press and hold in the
[
MHz
(
SET
)]
key for one second to
save the new setting and exit to normal operation.
4. To disable the Enhanced Paging & Code Squelch, just
repeat the above procedure, rotating the DIAL knob to
select “
OFF
” in step 2 above.
When the Enhanced Paging & Code Squelch feature is activated, the “P” notation will
appear by the 100 MHz digit of the frequency display.
Paging Answer Back
When you press the PTT switch to respond to a page call, the FT-2980R/E transmits the
Transmitting CTCSS Tone pair. This tone pair will open the Code Squelch of the calling
station. If you prefer, you can have the FT-2980R/E respond to page calls automatically
(“transpond”).
To enable this feature:
1. Press and hold in the
[
MHz
(
SET
)]
key for one second,
then rotate the DIAL knob to select “
33 PAG.ABK
”.
2. Press the
[
MHz
(
SET
)]
key, then rotate the DIAL knob to
set this Menu item to “
ON
”.
3. Press and hold in the
[
MHz
(
SET
)]
key for one second to
save the new setting and exit to normal operation.
4. To disable the Paging Answer Back feature, just repeat
the above procedure, rotating the DIAL knob to select
“
OFF
” in step 2 above.
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CTCSS/DCS/EPCS Operation
FT-2980R/E Operating Manual