The FT-60 is actually THE easiest handheld to manually program. ?Clint put out an absolutely marvelous cheat sheet for this radio. I don¡¯t remember the links, but do a search on FT-60 cheat sheet. There is also a way to disable the internet function. Search for disabling the WIRES function.?
Jardy Dawson WA7JRD
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On Aug 19, 2022, at 18:50, John WJ6JW <john@...> wrote:
?Hi, folks,
I found out why my radio behaves "incorrectly". It is all because I have not read the menu. Sorry.
I used chirp to program about 600 channels in and never bothers to read the menu. Big mistake.
The radio's 0 button was accidentally pressed. So the radio is in internet mode. In this mode, every time I press the PTT, it is quiet for 0.5s, and send a beep tone, and another 0.5 s to make internet ready. during this 1 second time, the other party is able to hear my voice very very faintly if I talk. my voice is back to normal volume after 1 second.
Also the radio is programmed to do auto power off after 5 hours. It makes me feel that its battery is depleted.
I read the menu today. It is so complicated that I do not believe I can remember anything. I will continue to use chirp to program my radio.
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--john
