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How do you program one of these? I assume there is a keypad behind the panel and some depot password?
 

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How do you program one of these? I assume there is a keypad behind the panel and some depot password?
They are FPP or computer programmed. Remove the battery and the faceplate sides down and off. Press and hold the FCN button and it goes into programming mode. enter the ch # then press FCN then erase then enter RX freq then tone, etc. If when in programming mode on ch 0, you press FCN it can change top level programming stuff but I forget what that includes.

BTW, the first time you press the PTT on that eBay unit the PTT cover will crumble into little bits, probably none that old have survived.

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Which reminds me to order some from Andy Brinkley for my MX300/ KVL's.

I read somewhere that they don't have "Channel Guard". Can that be added and is it FPP?
 

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