Yaesu VX-6R Operating Manual

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VX-6R OPERATING MANUAL12Hi! I’m R. F. Radio, and I’ll be helping you along as you learn the manyfeatures of the VX-6R. I know you’re anxious to get on the air, but I encour-age you to read the “Operation” section of this manual as thoroughly aspossible, so you’ll get the most out of this fantastic new transceiver. Now. . .let’s getoperating!SWITCHING POWER ON AND OFF1. Be sure the Battery Pack is installed, and that the bat-tery is fully charged. Connect the antenna to the toppanel ANTENNA jack.2. Press and hold in the orange POWER switch (on theleft side of the front panel) for one second. Two beepswill be heard when the switch has been held longenough, and the current DC supply voltage will indi-cated on the display for 2 seconds; if you are using the FNB-80LI Battery Pack, thesmall “Lit” notation at the top of the display confirms that the Lithium-Ion BatteryPack has been detected. After this 2-second interval, the display will resume its normalindication of the operating frequency.3. To turn the VX-6R off, press and hold in the POWER switch again for one second.1) If you don’t hear the two “Beep” tones when the radio comes on, the Beepermay have been disabled via the Menu system. See page 21, which tells youhow to reactivate the Beeper.2) You can change the Opening Message (DC supply voltage indication) to any desiredmessage (up to 6 characters) via Set Mode Item 42: OPN.MSG; see page 48 for details.ADJUSTING THE VOLUME LEVELRotate the VOLUME control (inner knob) to set the de-sired audio level. Clockwise rotation increases the volumelevel.OPERATION