27FT-2900E O PERATING M ANUALCTCSS/DCS/EPCS O PERATIONActivating the Enhanced Paging & Code Squelch System1. Press and hold in the [MHz(SET)] key for one second, thenrotate the DIAL knob to select “32 PAGER32 PAGER32 PAGER32 PAGER32 PAGER.”2. Press the [MHz(SET)] key, then rotate the DIAL knob toset this Menu item to “ONONONONON.”3. Press and hold in the [MHz(SET)] key for one second tosave the new setting and exit to normal operation.4. To disable the Enhanced Paging & Code Squelch, just repeat the above procedure, rotat-ing the DIAL knob to select “OFFOFFOFFOFFOFF” in step 2 above.When the Enhanced Paging & Code Squelch feature is activated, the “PPPPP” notation willappear by the 100 MHz digit of the frequency display.Paging Answer BackWhen you press the PTT switch to respond to a page call, the FT-2900E transmits theTransmitting CTCSS Tone pair. This tone pair will open the Code Squelch of the callingstation. If you prefer, you can have the FT-2900E respond to page calls automatically(“transpond”).To enable this feature:1. Press and hold in the [MHz(SET)] key for one second, thenrotate the DIAL knob to select “33 PAG.ABK33 PAG.ABK33 PAG.ABK33 PAG.ABK33 PAG.ABK.”2. Press the [MHz(SET)] key, then rotate the DIAL knob toset this Menu item to “ONONONONON.”3. Press and hold in the [MHz(SET)] key for one second tosave the new setting and exit to normal operation.4. To disable the Paging Answer Back feature, just repeat the above procedure, rotatingthe DIAL knob to select “OFFOFFOFFOFFOFF” in step 2 above.EPCS (ENHANCED PAGING & CODE SQUELCH) OPERATION