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Hello all

Two quick questions.....

1. Is there some way to set the G5 up so the display does not come on every time it receives something?

When I'm monitoring a busy channel, it lights up constantly. The shortest I can set the timeout is to 1 second.

I like the fact that I can press any key to see the display, but otherwise would like the option to set it up so the display stays off unless I press a key.

2. In my PPS software, after building and experimenting with several profiles, now I have profiles I no longer want, but cannot find a way to delete the unwanted profiles.

Searched the forums but didn't see a specific reference to either question.

Thanks in advance!

Jack
 
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#1 - I have no idea.

#2 - Do you backup your programs? In PPS, PROFILE IMPORT/EXPORT --->EXPORT PROFILE. If so, just delete unwanted profiles from your backup folder. You are doing backups, right??
 
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texas1313 said:
Hello all

Two quick questions.....

1. Is there some way to set the G5 up so the display does not come on every time it receives something?

When I'm monitoring a busy channel, it lights up constantly. The shortest I can set the timeout is to 1 second.

I like the fact that I can press any key to see the display, but otherwise would like the option to set it up so the display stays off unless I press a key.
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It seems the answer is no -- 0 means screen on all the time so 1 second is probably the lowest you can go.
2. In my PPS software, after building and experimenting with several profiles, now I have profiles I no longer want, but cannot find a way to delete the unwanted profiles.

Searched the forums but didn't see a specific reference to either question.

Thanks in advance!

Jack
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Tab D (View/Edit Existing Profile) - select a profile - press the Delete button at the bottom
 
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Thank you for the quick replies.

I cannot believe I didn't see the "delete" button at the bottom of the screen! Duh!

Also setting the screen timeout to the shortest (1 second) also means you have to be quick pushing any buttons before the screen times out.

Thanks again!
 
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