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zerowatts said:
The Puxing PX-888 is not FCC approved yet for UHF, but the Wouxun is...The 888 specs read: Single DTMF/2 tone/MSK ANI encodes and decode programmable.

Can the Wouxun radio do this? Either way I am diggin the flashlight LOL I could seriously put that bad boy to use. I miss my little LED keychain that broke. Leave it to the Chinese! :)
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No clue on the ANI... the ANI just sends DTMF tones... Not displayable on another Wouxun. Not sure at all on the purpose, as there is no DTMF decode.
 
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Well my SMA-F to BNC-F adapter came in today and I worked a couple of FM Satellites with my Arrow Antenna. This radio does a Great job working the Sats. Its funny that the radio cost less than the antenna, How often does that happen .....
 
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racer38 said:
Well my SMA-F to BNC-F adapter came in today and I worked a couple of FM Satellites with my Arrow Antenna. This radio does a Great job working the Sats. Its funny that the radio cost less than the antenna, How often does that happen .....
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No doubt! Great the radio does good for sats... I'm working on it too :)
 
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zerowatts said:
*&HY@!!!! So by dual band it simply means VHF+UHF? I totally don't need dual band!!!!! Damn I just ordered one of those things!

You only bring a few more questions up and I am then done... :)


So I a "channel" is not limited to a frequency then? A single "channel" will have a TX frequency + CTCSS and could also have a completely different frequency and CTCSS for RX?


Can you be more detailed as to Busy Channel? I don't know what it does on a scanner either, sorry man I am brand spanking new to these invisible waves.

Would that be for automated stuff like a data transmission? I don't see why any boss would ever want to cut an employee off to their dispatcher.

Could you explain this too, I don't even know what vfo mode means.

How is carrier scan defined?

Is the SOS channel something I program? So I could program my favorite GMRS Channel in as the SOS giving me the 'transmit on alternate frequency option i am looking for?


That sounds scary, I will make sure I never have any police stations programmed in to scan on!

Don't get me wrong I am grateful for the education. I can't understand Chinese manuals so well.
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Yes you can litterally program a channel with any frequency combination with seperate PL tones for transmit and receive.

Busy channel lock out is just that. If there is a busy channel and you don't want to hear it you push the button and its gone from the scan list. If you stop the scan and restart the channel will return to the list and be scanned.

VFO techically is called a variable frequency oscillator. It is one of the knobs on top of the radio. It's actually a channel selector/vfo dual purpose knob. When the radio is in vfo mode you will just have the frequency on the display, turning the knob Varies the Frequency. You can also have your repeater splits enable in this mode also.

Carrier scan is when the radio receives a signal it will open the squelch on the landed channel until the transmission is finished then resume scanning. Timer scan the radio will stop on a channel for a predetermined amount of time selectable thru the menu then resume scanning regardless if there is traffic on the channel still.

I haven't messed with the SOS channel. If I were to guess I would think it operates like a home function, you push the SOS button and it takes the radio to the SOS channel. Then you have to hit the ptt button. You'll have to experiment with that one.

Any channels you do not want to transmit on or are not authorized for just leave the transmit frequency field blank. The radio will emit a tone when ptt is pushed and won't transmit.

The manual is bad but it gives valuable clues to the puzzel. Its worth having.
 
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very good reviews on the radio for them. however i want to see more action on them. i just ordered the dual band. on friday. please post more youtube vids if you can.
 
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I have had mine for 2 weeks and as a new ham, I believe it works well. Opens most of the repeaters here within 5 miles with me in a house with aluminum siding. A word to the wise is do not skimp and go ahead and get the antenna adaptors (I got the SO 239 and BNC adaptors for the SMA) and USB cable. The software (online, free from Wouxun) makes it much easier to program and works quite well.
 
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ya i agree. programming can suck without it. dont get the serial cable its a pain in the ass lol never worked for me.
 
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getting the radio to scan

popnokick said:
Has anyone figured out how to channel or freq scan with the Wouxun KG-689? Only way I can do it is by continually pressing the "Up" or "Down" button. Website says that scanning is a feature enabled by the optional programming software. I have that, and still can't find a way with the software to cause it to scan.
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If you pressed the Menu key then the TDR key you should be in the dual band mode, then all you need to do is push the SCAN* KEY to scan in the VFO mode.... to scan in memory mode you need to goto the (signal channel) by pressing the Menu key then TDR key to get to this, this will only scan your memories that you have save in different channels... Hope this helped. 73's
 
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