So I recently just got a nice little TYT TH-7800 VHF/UHF radio. I like it pretty good and it has great range. I have a few questions about the features of the radio however,
1. Will this radio listen to the FM commercial (music) radio? I though I saw somewhere it did, but I am probably wrong.
2. What is ARTS? Is that like a repeater system? Is there a way I could set me radio up as a repeater to use with my handheld radios and boost the power?
3. Is there a way I cold only set up a few scan lists instead of scanning all the channels? I would like to have a few "banks" that I could scan no more than 5-10 channels and I did not know if that was possible.
4. I know the radio will encode 2 and 5 tones, but will it decode them as tones come across?
5. Are the letter keys on the DTMF mic to store favorite channels like on the radio head A-F, or programmable to do other features? If not, what are they used for?
6. The radio will only let me put in AM aircraft frequencies in the left side of the radio and not the right. Is there a reason that is and can I fix it?
7. Will this radio do MDC?
Thanks so much and I hope to learn lots more about this radio.
1. Will this radio listen to the FM commercial (music) radio? I though I saw somewhere it did, but I am probably wrong.
2. What is ARTS? Is that like a repeater system? Is there a way I could set me radio up as a repeater to use with my handheld radios and boost the power?
3. Is there a way I cold only set up a few scan lists instead of scanning all the channels? I would like to have a few "banks" that I could scan no more than 5-10 channels and I did not know if that was possible.
4. I know the radio will encode 2 and 5 tones, but will it decode them as tones come across?
5. Are the letter keys on the DTMF mic to store favorite channels like on the radio head A-F, or programmable to do other features? If not, what are they used for?
6. The radio will only let me put in AM aircraft frequencies in the left side of the radio and not the right. Is there a reason that is and can I fix it?
7. Will this radio do MDC?
Thanks so much and I hope to learn lots more about this radio.