Operation Manual

26 FT-7900R OPERATING MANUAL
Repeater stations, usually located on mountaintops or other high locations, provide a dra-
matic extension of the communication range for low-powered hand-held or mobile trans-
ceivers. The FT-7900R includes a number of features which make repeater operation simple
and enjoyable.
REPEATER SHIFTS
Your FT-7900R has been configured, at the factory, for the repeater shifts customary in
your country. While the 144 MHz shift will be 600 kHz; on 70 cm, the shift may be 1.6 MHz,
7.6 MHz, or 5 MHz (USA version).
Depending on the part of the band in which you are operating, the repeater shift may be
either downward (–) or upward (+), and one of these icons will appear at the top of the LCD
when repeater shifts have been enabled.
AUTOMATIC REPEATER SHIFT
(
ARS
)
The FT-7900R 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 below.
If the ARS feature does not appear to be working, you may have accidentally disabled it.
To re-enable ARS:
1. Press and hold in the
[
BAND
(
SET
)]
key for 1/2 second to enter the Set mode.
2. Rotate the DIAL knob to select Menu #4 (
ARSARS
ARSARS
ARS).
3. Press the
[
BAND
(
SET
)]
key momentarily, then rotate
the DIAL knob to change the setting to “
ONON
ONON
ON” (to enable
Automatic Repeater Shift).
4. Press the
[
BAND
(
SET
)]
key momentarily to save the
new setting, then press and hold in the
[
BAND
(
SET
)]
key for 1/2 second to exit to normal operation.
With repeater shift activated, you can tempo-
rarily reverse the transmit and receive frequen-
cies by pressing and holding in the
[
TONE
(
HM/
RV
)]
key for 1/2 second. Use this feature to dis-
play the transmit frequency without transmit-
ting, and to check the strength of signals on a
repeater uplink frequency (so as to determine
whether of not a particular station is within
“Simplex” range, for example).
REPEATER OPERATION
European Version
Version A
2-m
145.1 145.5
145.6 145.8
146.0 146.4 147.0 147.6 148.0
146.6 147.4
Euro Version 1
Euro Version 2
Version A
70-cm
440.0 445.0 450.0
439.45438.20
433.00 433.40
ARS-Repeater Subbands