Kenwood TH-D74A User Manual - Page 2

1 CONTENTS 1 CONTENTS 1 2 BEFORE STARTING 2-1 3 PREPARATION 3-1 SUPPLIED ACCESSORIES 3-1 INSTALLING THE ANTENNA 3-1 INSTALLING THE BATTERY PACK 3-1 INSTALLING ALKALINE BATTERIES 3-1 INSTALLING THE BELT CLIP 3-2 INSTALLING THE HAND STRAP 3-2 CHARGING THE BATTERY PACK 3-2 BATTERY LIFE 3-3 CONNECTING TO A CIGARETTE LIGHTER SOCKET 3-3 CONNECTING TO A REGULATED POWER SUPPLY 3-3 4 GETTING ACQUAINTED 4-1 KEY AND CONTROL KNOB OPERATIONS 4-1 DISPLAY 4-3 5 BASIC OPERATIONS 5-1 SWITCHING THE POWER ON/ OFF 5-1 ADJUSTING THE INTERNAL CLOCK 5-1 ADJUSTING THE VOLUME 5-1 VOLUME BALANCE (BAND A/B 5-1 SELECTING DUAL BAND MODE/ SINGLE BAND MODE 5-1 SELECTING AN OPERATION BAND 5-1 SELECTING A FREQUENCY BAND 5-2 SELECTING THE DEMODULATION MODE 5-2 SELECTING A FREQUENCY 5-2 ADJUSTING THE SQUELCH 5-3 TRANSMITTING 5-3 MONITOR 5-3 FUNCTION SELECT MODE 5-3 6 MENU MODE 6-1 MENU ACCESS 6-1 CHARACTER ENTRY 6-1 MENU CONFIGURATION 6-2 7 OPERATING THROUGH FM REPEATERS 7-1 REPEATER ACCESS 7-1 TRANSMITTING A 1750 Hz TONE 7-3 REVERSE FUNCTION 7-3 8 MEMORY CHANNEL 8-1 SIMPLEX & REPEATER OR ODD-SPLIT MEMORY CHANNEL?........8-1 MEMORY CHANNEL LIST 8-1 RECALLING A MEMORY CHANNEL 8-2 EDITING MEMORY CHANNEL 8-3 CALL CHANNEL MEMORY (SIMPLEX 8-4 CALL CHANNEL MEMORY (ODD-SPLIT 8-4 CALL CHANNEL LIST 8-4 MEMORY GROUP 8-4 MEMORY SHIFT 8-5 9 SCAN 9-1 SELECTING A SCAN RESUME METHOD 9-1 BAND SCAN 9-1 PROGRAM SCAN 9-2 MHz SCAN 9-2 MEMORY SCAN 9-2 GROUP LINK SCAN 9-3 PRIORITY SCAN 9-4 CALL SCAN 9-4 SCAN AUTO BACKLIGHT 9-4 10 CTCSS/DCS/CROSS TONE 10-1 CTCSS 10-1 DCS 10-2 CROSS TONE 10-3 11 DUAL TONE MULTI-FREQUENCY(DTMF 11-1 MANUAL DIALING 11-1 AUTOMATIC DIALER 11-1 EchoLink MEMORY 11-2 12 OTHER OPERATIONS 12-1 FREQUENCY STEP SIZE 12-1 FINE TUNING 12-1 ATTENUATOR (ATT 12-1 PROGRAMMABLE VFO 12-2 BEAT SHIFT 12-2 IF/ DETECT OUTPUT MODE 12-2 FM NARROW 12-3 BAR ANTENNA 12-3 TX INHIBIT 12-3 TIME-OUT TIMER 12-4 MICROPHONE SENSITIVITY 12-4 SETTING RECEIVING FILTERS 12-4 VOX (VOICE-OPERATED TRANSMISSION 12-5 PITCH FREQUENCY 12-6 CW REVERSE 12-6 LED CONTROL 12-6 DISPLAY ILLUMINATION 12-7 POWER ON MESSAGE 12-7 SINGLE BAND DISPLAY 12-8 METER TYPE 12-8 DISPLAY BACKGROUND COLOR 12-8 AUDIO EQUALIZER (TX/RX 12-9 KEY BEEP 12-9 BEEP VOLUME 12-10 BATTERY SAVER 12-10 AUTO POWER OFF (APO 12-10 BATTERY LEVEL 12-10 PROGRAMMABLE FUNCTION KEYS 12-11 KEY LOCK 12-12 VOLUME LOCK 12-12 DISPLAY UNIT 12-12 OUTPUT DESTINATION INTERFACE (USB/Bluetooth 12-13 SELECTING A LANGUAGE 12-14 VERIFYING THE FIRMWARE VERSION 12-14 TRANSCEIVER RESET 12-14 13 GPS 13-1 BUILT-IN GPS FUNCTION ON/ OFF 13-1 SETTING MY POSITION DATA 13-1 MARK FUNCTION 13-4 POSITION MEMORY LIST 13-4 TARGET POINT 13-6 TRACK LOG 13-6 14 APRS 14-1 BASIC SETTINGS 14-1 POSITION COMMENT 14-3 STATUS TEXT 14-3 STATION LIST 14-5 APRS MESSAGE FUNCTIONS 14-9 PROGRAMMING A PACKET PATH 14-11 SETTING INTERNAL TNC 14-12 APRS LOCK 14-13 SETTING TX BEACON 14-13 SETTING BEACON INFORMATION 14-14 OBJECT FUNCTIONS 14-15 QSY FUNCTION 14-16 SETTING SmartBeaconingTM 14-17 SETTING WAY POINT 14-18 SETTING PACKET FILTER 14-19 STORING USER PHRASES 14-19 STORING AUTO MESSAGE REPLY 14-19 SETTING NOTIFICATION SOUND 14-20 SETTING DISPLAY 14-21 PC OUTPUT 14-21 NETWORK 14-21 VOICE ALERT 14-22 PROGRAMMING MESSAGE GROUP CODE 14-22 PROGRAMMING BULLETIN GROUP CODE 14-22 15 BUILT-IN KISS TNC 15-1 1-1