sort of a dumb question .... ?

Hi Folks,



Has anyone out there ever seen a walk-thur for programing radios? Obviously it would have to be model specific but I was just wondering??



I guess you could clone it if you knew someone in your area with the same set but is there a general walk - thru or how-to procedure for stuff like that?



Of course in my case, I'm a newbie who just got a FT-2900R and I do have the manual. But has anyone ever seen a posting like: " Here's the best steps or a recommended way to program a channel or repeater in to a 2900R"



I get that you enter the freq, save it to a memory, add the offset, etc ....





I found this so it might be an example:



Setting Up A Repeater Channels on Wouxun KG‐UVD1P

Manually Programming an FM VHF/UHF Repeater Channel



a. If keypad locked, then unlock MENU 14

MENU-14-MENU- ↑ or ↓ (“ON” or “OFF”) –MENU-EXIT



b. Change to “Frequency” Mode (VFO) MENU 21

MENU-21-MENU- ↑ or ↓ [FREQ] –MENU-EXIT



c. Enter the frequency via the keypad

e.g. 1-4-6-9-5-0



d. Setting offset frequency MENU 23

MENU-23-MENU- ↑ or ↓ [choose value e.g. 0.600] –MENU-EXIT



e. Setting offset direction MENU 24

MENU-24-MENU- ↑ or ↓ [choose ‘+’ or ‘-‘ or ‘OFF’] –MENU-EXIT



f. Setting sub-audible CTCSS tones for controlled access



i. Receive RX / Decode MENU 15

MENU-15-MENU- ↑ or ↓ [choose “numerical value e.g. 110.9” or ‘OFF’] –MENU-EXIT



ii. Transmit TX / Encode MENU 16

MENU-16-MENU- ↑ or ↓ [choose “numerical value e.g. 110.9” or ‘OFF’] –MENU-EXIT



g. Set high / low power level MENU 4

MENU-4-MENU- ↑ or ↓ [choose “HIGH” or ‘LOW’] –MENU-EXIT



h. Set band width MENU 8

MENU-8-MENU- ↑ or ↓ [choose “WIDE” or ‘NARR’] –MENU-EXIT



i. Set scan inclusion / exclusion MENU 13 (Busy Channel Lockout)

MENU-13-MENU- ↑ or ↓ [choose “ON” or ‘OFF’] –MENU-EXIT



j. Save to a channel MENU 27

MENU-27-MENU- ↑ or ↓ [choose “channel number”] –MENU-EXIT

Or

MENU-27-MENU-[enter channel number on keypad]-MENU-EXIT



k. Deleting an existing channel MENU 28

MENU-28-MENU- ↑ or ↓ [choose “channel number”] –MENU-EXIT

Or

MENU-28-MENU-[enter channel number on keypad]-MENU-EXIT



l. Name the channel and save the name MENU 26 A-Z, 0-9 ; max 6 characters

Change to “Channel / Name” mode MENU 21

MENU-21-MENU- ↑ or ↓ [NAME] –MENU-EXIT

MENU-26-MENU-

[Sequentially enter ↑ to select a character]

[enter ↓ to save and go to next character]-MENU-EXIT



m. Change to desired display mode (Freq, Chan, Chan/Freq, Chan/Name ) MENU 21

i. FREQ “Frequency only” i.e. 146.950

ii. CH “Channel Number only” i.e. CH-021

iii. CHFREQ “Frequency and Channel Number” i.e. 146.950 21

iv. NAME “Channel Name and Channel Number” i.e. VE6XXX 21



n. Lock keypad MENU 14

MENU-14-MENU- ↑ or ↓ (select “OFF”) –MENU-EXIT





See !! I mean that posting is pretty sweet and everything is there so it's kind of handy ....



Are there other places or people out there who have done the same thing but for different radios?



Cheers'

Dave