iCom IC-F62D Programming

[anothercliche]

Just received new iCom IC-F62D radios that will be used as pager activation for FD as well as TX/RX on other frequencies. Two questions that can't seem to figure out:

1) Department operates on "Page Channel" and "Ops Channel". Pager is activating for tones on "Page Channel" but automatically changes radio to "Ops Channel" after activation. I'm sure I set it wrong somewhere, but what am I missing?

2) Our older iComs used to have a lock feature for the PTT so there were no accidental transmissions. Haven't had any luck as of yet on the new radio besides locking the standard buttons on the front. Any recommendations?


Thank you!

 

[anothercliche]

Disregard question 1, was able to fix it by switching priority channels.

Still looking at possible ways to lock the PTT. Also don't see anyway of setting an audio tone for when the PTT is pushed. Only feature I can see is audio timeout but that won't stop accidental key ups, just cap them.

Thanks!

 

[12dbsinad]

Disregard question 1, was able to fix it by switching priority channels.

Still looking at possible ways to lock the PTT. Also don't see anyway of setting an audio tone for when the PTT is pushed. Only feature I can see is audio timeout but that won't stop accidental key ups, just cap them.

Thanks!

Just set the channel to TX inhibit if you don't want to transmit. That's what we do on the page channels. Then no accidental key-ups until they select the transmit channel. Hope that helps. There is no PTT lock that I'm aware of on those models.