Cross - Band Repeater SettingsThe FT-51R can be set up to operate as a full-featured cross - band repeater with a simplepower -on procedure. This feature is useful forfield-day, club station or emergency operation inremote areas, and for cross-band linking. How -ever, remember these few points before usingthe cross-band repeater function.Check with amateur rules and regulations toensure this type of operation is permitted inyour country.Pick your frequency pair carefully, so as to notinterfere with existing repeaters in operation,cross linking two repeaters on two separatebands may cause a lot of havoc, and may beillegal! If you are not sure of active repeaterfrequencies, a safe rule is to stay off of therepeater sub -bands and use the simplex por -tion of each band. Contact thefrequency coordi-natorfor your area for guidance.Remember that the Tx duty cycle will probablybe much greater than before, so use a low Txpower output setting for cooler operation.There are two cross-band repeater selections:one-way repeat and bi-directional repeat. Withone-way repeat, any signals received on the sub-channel are transmitted on the main channel.Bi-directional repeat operates the same way, ex-cept, as its name implies, it can repeat signalsfrom either channel (one at a time, of course).Transceiver CTCSS settings (encode/decode)can still be selected for each band, so you canmake your repeater ”closed” if desired. The one-way repeat mode also includes a 1-second car-rier ”hang-time” (Tx carrier delay), as found oncommercial repeaters!0 To enable one-way cross band repeat, holdRPTSET!)(REV) while turning on the power.BAND Off!*0 Press (BAND) to place b on the band you want therepeater Tx output to be on. Any signals re-ceived on the sub-band are automatically re-transmitted on the main band.T SQ TRx Input Tx OutputawArrow indicates repeat direction while transmitting