274SETTING AS A DIGIPEATERThis transceiver with a built-in TNC may also be used asa digipeater. As described in “PACKET PATH ANDDIGIPEATER” {page 9}, a volunteer who installs adigipeater is supposed to program it either as a RELAYor WIDE depending on various conditions.Note: This transceiver is capable of setting up to 4 path segments(aliases); each path segment must have less than 10 characters.However, it is common to program either “RELAY” or “WIDE” asmentioned above.1 Press [MNU] to enter Menu mode.2 Press [ccccc]/ [ddddd] to select “DIGIPEATER (3–K)”, thenpress [OK].3 Press [ccccc]/ [ddddd] to switch the function ON, then press[OK].4 Press [ccccc]/ [ddddd] to select “UIDIGI (3–L)”, then press[OK].• The display for entering a path appears; the first digitblinks.5 Turn the Tuning control to select a character.• You can enter 0 to 9, A to Z, , (comma), and –.6 Press [aaaaa].• The cursor moves to the next digit.7 Repeat steps 5 and 6 to enter up to 39 digits.8 Press [OK] to complete the setting.9 Press [MNU] to exit Menu mode.The keypad on the MC-53DM also is available to enteralphanumeric characters in step 5. Each press of a Mickey switches entry of characters as below:1 Q Z 1 7 P R S 72 A B C 2 8 T U V 83 D E F 3 9 W X Y 94 G H I 4 0 05 J K L 5 # – ,6 M N O 6.ammocastresnI afoyrtneslecnaC .htaptatigidehtseteleD sirosrucehthcihw .gniknilbrosrucehtsesuaC .drawkcabevomotyltnerrucehtstresnI .retcarahcdetceles DNABtfel( )LESdnastigidllasraelC otrosrucehtskcab .tigidtsrifeht