How to Program an FT-70D — Step by Step

Two layers and one knob. Press F and a numbered key for the things you change often — power, squelch type, tone, repeater shift — or hold F to open a list of 64 settings you scroll with the DIAL.

This page covers: Yaesu FT-70DR, Yaesu FT-70DE. The keys are the same on both and so are the procedures. Two things differ by market: every Set Mode item above 61 is one lower outside the USA, because the weather alert item does not exist there, and whether the MONI/T-CALL switch opens the squelch or sends a 1750 Hz tone burst depends on item 32. This page gives the USA number first and names the other where it matters.

Not the FT-65R, and not the FT3D

Three Yaesu handhelds on this site use an F key and a numbered list, and none of them share numbers. The FT-65R has a different, shorter Set Mode and calls the squelch type SQL TYPE at item 29; this radio does not put the squelch type in Set Mode at all — it is F then the 5 key. The FT3D is a touchscreen with a named menu tree and nothing here transfers to it. Same maker, same era, three different radios.

PTT is the save key, and F is the second layer

Two habits make this radio easy. First: the PTT switch saves. Everywhere in Set Mode, when you have the value you want, you squeeze PTT and the radio writes it and drops back to the frequency — it does not transmit while you are in a menu. A few screens will not leave that way, and on those you hold F instead. Second: almost every fast job is F plus a number key, and the number keys are labeled with what they do — 1 is TX PO, 5 is SQ TYP, 6 is CODE, 0 is RPT, 2 is SCAN. Between those five and the DIAL you can set up a repeater without opening the 64-item list at all.

The DR, the DE, and why item numbers shift above 61

The FT-70DR is the USA and Asian version and the FT-70DE the European one, and they share one Set Mode list — up to item 61. Item 61 WX ALT, the NOAA weather alert scan, exists only on the USA version, so on a set built for anywhere else every item above it moves down one: W/N.DEV is 62 in the USA and 61 elsewhere, W-DGID is 63 or 62, MYCALL is 64 or 63. Yaesu marks the higher numbers with an asterisk and the words USA Version, so it is the market the radio was built for that decides, not the DR or DE on the box — an Asian-market DR carries the lower numbers too. This page gives the USA number first. The other regional difference is the MONI/T-CALL switch, which on some sets sends the 1750 Hz burst tone repeaters outside the USA want rather than opening the squelch — Yaesu's two accounts of which sets those are do not agree, so item 32 M/T-CL is where you look and where you change it. Yaesu also splits this radio into two books — an Operating Manual and an Advance Manual — and the tone settings are only in the second one.

What you can do on this radio

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Save a repeater to a memory channel on an FT-70D

Set the frequency and the tone first, then write the lot into a channel. The write is the part that catches people out: it is the same key three times, and the middle press opens a naming screen you were not expecting.

Have these to hand before you start

  • The repeater's output frequency — the one you listen to.
  • Its tone, if it uses one.
  • Its offset, though the radio will usually work that out for itself.
  1. Press V/M until you are in VFO mode, then press BAND until you are on the right band.V/M›BANDThe screen should show: A frequency with no memory channel number.V/M swaps between the VFO and the memory channels. You build a channel in the VFO and then save it across.
  2. Type the frequency on the keypad, starting with the 100 MHz digit.type 146940The screen should show: The digits filling in from the left.Watch out. Holding a number key enters the zeros that follow it in one go — useful for a frequency like 146.000. If you start typing and change your mind, PTT cancels the entry.
  3. Press F then the 5 key — the one labeled SQ TYP — turn the DIAL to TONE, and squeeze PTT to save.F›5 (SQ TYP)›dial → TONE›PTTThe screen should show: The squelch type, then a small tone icon on the display.TONE sends your tone and leaves you hearing everything on the channel. TSQL, the next one along, also mutes your radio until a matching tone comes back — a different job, and the usual reason a repeater seems to have gone silent.
  4. Press F then the 6 key — labeled CODE — turn the DIAL to your tone frequency, and press F to save.F›6 (CODE)›dial → 100.0›FThe screen should show: The tone frequency on its own.Watch out. The kind of tone and the frequency of the tone are two separate screens on two separate keys. Setting only SQ TYP leaves the radio sending 88.5 Hz, which is the factory value and quite often not what the repeater wants.
  5. Hold V/M until the channel numbers start blinking, turn the DIAL to a channel, then press V/M.hold V/M›dial → a free channel›V/MThe screen should show: Blinking channel numbers — a channel that blinks is empty.Only the empty channels blink, so the blinking is how you find a free one.Watch out. If the channel already holds something, the radio asks M-WRT? first. Press V/M again only if you mean to write over it.
  6. A naming screen appears. Type a name if you want one, then hold V/M again to finish. The radio beeps and the channel is saved.hold V/MThe screen should show: A cursor on a blank tag, then a beep.You can hold V/M straight away and skip the name. But the keypad works like a phone here — press 2 repeatedly for A, B, C — and BAND and MODE move the cursor right and left, so a callsign takes about five seconds.

The offset usually needs nothing from you: ARS sets the shift automatically when you tune to a repeater frequency, and the small shift icon appears above the frequency to tell you it has. If it does not appear, see the offset page. Everything in the channel — frequency, mode, power, tone, shift, tag — is stored together, so a channel saved on low power comes back on low power.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Set the transmit tone (CTCSS / PL) on an FT-70D

Two screens, two keys, and one trap that belongs to digital radios: tones do not work in C4FM at all.

  1. First make sure you are in analog FM. Press MODE until FM shows, or hold AMS so the radio picks the mode from the signal.MODEThe screen should show: FM, rather than DN or VW.Watch out. CTCSS, DCS and the pager function do nothing in C4FM digital mode. If you set a tone while the radio is in DN it will look completely normal and have no effect on the air.
  2. Press F then 5, turn the DIAL to TONE, and squeeze PTT to save.F›5 (SQ TYP)›dial → TONE›PTTThe screen should show: TONE, and then a tone icon once you are back on the frequency.TONE is encode only — you send a tone, and you still hear everything. That is all a repeater asks for.
  3. Press F then 6, turn the DIAL to the tone frequency, and press F to save.F›6 (CODE)›dial → 100.0›FThe screen should show: The tone frequency, one of 50 between 67.0 and 254.1 Hz.Watch out. That one frequency is shared by TONE, TSQL, RV TN, T DCS and D TONE. There is no separate transmit tone and receive tone on this radio — set it once and every mode that uses a tone uses that one.

Both settings are held per band, so a tone set on 2 meters does not follow you to 70 centimeters. If you do not know what tone a repeater uses, the radio will find it: from the F then 6 screen press BAND to start the search, press BAND again to stop it when it lands on the right tone, then press F to keep it — it only pauses about five seconds on a hit, so all three presses matter. Yaesu's own procedure for the F then 5 screen tells you to turn the DIAL to set a noise level, which is a paragraph left over from the squelch level instructions — on that screen the DIAL picks the type.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Set the receive tone on an FT-70D

Tone squelch keeps the radio quiet until somebody sends the tone you are waiting for. It is the same two keys as the transmit tone, with a different choice on the first screen.

  1. Press F then 5, turn the DIAL to TSQL, and squeeze PTT.F›5 (SQ TYP)›dial → TSQL›PTTThe screen should show: TSQL, and a tone squelch icon on the display.TSQL both sends your tone and silences the radio unless a matching tone comes back. One setting, two effects.
  2. Press F then 6 and set the tone frequency, exactly as you would for a transmit tone.F›6 (CODE)›dial → 100.0›FThe screen should show: The tone frequency.Watch out. This is the same stored frequency the transmit tone uses. Changing it here changes it there.
  3. For a DCS repeater or a club running codes rather than tones, pick DCS on that first screen instead, then set the code on the F then 6 screen.F›5 (SQ TYP)›dial → DCS›PTTThe screen should show: DCS, then a three-digit code.There are 104 codes, 023 to 754, and the search trick works for these too — press BAND on the code screen and the radio will find the one in use.

Two things are worth keeping in mind. Squelching on a tone also squelches your scanning: with TSQL on, a scan only stops for signals carrying the right tone. And if you need to hear what is really on the channel, holding MONI/T-CALL opens everything — no tone, wrong tone, digital, all of it — for as long as you hold it. Item 54 SQL.EXP adds three more types: T DCS and D TONE, where you send one kind of tone and listen for the other, and D CODE, which sends a DCS code and leaves your receiver on ordinary squelch.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Set the offset direction and amount on an FT-70D

On an ordinary repeater you should not have to do anything here — ARS reads the frequency and sets the shift for you. This page is for when it does not, or when the repeater is unusual.

  1. Tune to the repeater's output frequency and look just above it.tune to the repeater's output frequencyThe screen should show: A small plus, minus or simplex icon appears on its own.That icon is ARS telling you it has recognized the frequency as a repeater channel and applied the shift. If it is there, you are done.
  2. To set the direction by hand, press F then the 0 key, labeled RPT, until the icon shows what you want.F›0 (RPT)The screen should show: Minus, plus, or nothing at all for simplex.Minus means the repeater listens below the frequency you hear, plus means above. In the US, 2 meters is almost always minus and 70 centimeters plus.
  3. For the amount, hold F to open Set Mode, turn the DIAL to item 46 RPT.FRQ, press F, turn the DIAL to the shift you need, and squeeze PTT.hold F›dial → 46 RPT.FRQ›F›dial → 0.60M›PTTThe screen should show: RPT.FRQ, then a figure in megahertz.Watch out. This one figure is the shift for the band you are on. The range runs to 150 MHz, which is far more rope than any repeater needs.
  4. If ARS is fighting you on an odd-split repeater, item 45 RPT.ARS switches it off.hold F›dial → 45 RPT.ARS›F›dial → OFF›PTTThe screen should show: RPT.ARS, OFF or ON.With ARS off, the shift stays exactly where you put it and the radio stops second-guessing you.

One honest note: neither manual prints a factory value for items 45 or 46 — Yaesu marks defaults in bold and these two have none — so this page will not tell you what yours arrived set to. Look before you rely on it. For a repeater with a non-standard split, the other way round the problem is to store the transmit frequency separately as a split memory, which the Advance Manual covers.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Set the squelch on an FT-70D

No menu for this one — it is the F key and the switch on the side.

  1. Press F, then press the MONI/T-CALL switch on the side. Turn the DIAL until the hiss stops, and squeeze PTT to save.F›MONI/T-CALL›dial → 0 to 15›PTTThe screen should show: SQL and a number from 0 to 15.Watch out. The factory setting is SQL 1, which is low. Wind it up too far and weak stations stop opening it — the point is the lowest number that gives you silence, not the highest number you can set.

Holding MONI/T-CALL on its own opens the squelch for as long as you hold it, tones and all, which is the right way to check whether a station is really there. On a DE, or on a DR with item 32 M/T-CL changed, that switch sends the 1750 Hz tone burst instead. There is also a separate RF squelch at item 44 RF SQL, which mutes by signal strength rather than by noise — set it to S3 and the radio ignores anything weaker.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Change the transmit power on an FT-70D

  1. Press F then the 1 key, labeled TX PO, turn the DIAL to the level you want, and squeeze PTT.F›1 (TX PO)›dial → HIGH, MID or LOW›PTTThe screen should show: HIGH, MID or LOW.HIGH is 5 watts, MID is 2, LOW is half a watt. The radio arrives on HIGH.

Power is stored per band and saved into each memory channel, so the level you were on when you saved a repeater is the level it comes back on. Worth knowing about the heat: transmit for long enough on HIGH and the radio's protection drops it to LOW on its own, and if you keep going it will stop transmitting altogether. That is designed behavior, not a fault.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Listen on the repeater's input on an FT-70D

Reverse swaps transmit and receive so you hear the repeater's input. If you can hear the other station that way, the two of you can talk directly and leave the repeater alone.

  1. With a repeater channel up and the shift showing, press the HM/RV key.HM/RVThe screen should show: The shift icon starts blinking.Blinking is the whole indication that you are reversed. It is easy to miss.
  2. Press HM/RV again to come out of it.HM/RVThe screen should show: The icon stops blinking.
  3. If that key recalls a home channel instead of reversing, item 26 HM/RV is set to HOME. Set it to REV.hold F›dial → 26 HM/RV›F›dial → REV›PTTThe screen should show: HM/RV, HOME or REV.Watch out. One key, two jobs, and only one of them at a time. The radio leaves the factory on REV, so if yours jumps to a home channel somebody has changed it. Note that the two manuals disagree about what F plus HM/RV does — the Operating Manual says it recalls the home channel, the Advance Manual says it toggles this setting — so change it here, by holding F, where there is no doubt.

Reverse only works while the shift is active — on a simplex channel there is nothing to swap. Do not leave it on: transmitting while reversed puts you out on the repeater's output frequency, which is exactly the frequency everybody else on the machine is listening to.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Name a memory channel on an FT-70D

You get one free chance to name a channel — the screen appears on its own while you are saving it — and one way to go back and do it afterward.

  1. Recall the channel you want to name: press V/M for memory mode and turn the DIAL to it.V/M›dial → the channelThe screen should show: The channel number and its frequency.
  2. Hold F to open Set Mode, turn the DIAL to item 33 MEM.NAM, and press F.hold F›dial → 33 MEM.NAM›FThe screen should show: A cursor on a blank or existing tag.
  3. Type the name and squeeze PTT to save.type N0CALL›PTTThe screen should show: The tag you typed, then back to the frequency.Six characters, which is enough for a callsign or a town. The keypad works like a phone — 2 gives A, B, C, 2 — or you can turn the DIAL through the whole character set. BAND moves the cursor right, MODE moves it left, and holding GM wipes everything after the cursor.
  4. To see the name instead of the frequency, press F then MODE.F›MODEThe screen should show: The display swaps between the tag and the frequency.Watch out. If nothing happens and the radio beeps, that channel has no tag stored. Item 35 NM/FRQ sets which one you get by default.

Home channels can be tagged the same way. And while you are in a tag, pressing F shows you the frequency for as long as you hold the layer up, so you never have to undo the name setting just to check what the channel actually is.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Delete a memory channel on an FT-70D

This radio does not really erase a channel — it masks it, which is why it can also bring one back.

  1. Press V/M for memory mode, then hold V/M, then turn the DIAL to the channel you want gone.V/M›hold V/M›dial → the channelThe screen should show: The channel list, with the empty channels blinking and the used ones steady.
  2. Press AMS. The radio asks M-MSK? — press AMS again and the channel is cleared.AMS›AMSThe screen should show: M-MSK?, then the channel is gone from the list.Watch out. AMS deletes and V/M saves, from the same blinking screen. Nothing warns you which one you are about to do beyond the prompt — M-MSK? is a delete, M-WRT? is a write.

Two useful facts. Channel 1 and the home channels cannot be cleared at all — the radio refuses. And a cleared channel is recoverable: go back through the same steps, turn the DIAL to the masked channel and press AMS, and it comes back with its contents intact. That is a good deal more forgiving than most handhelds.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Turn off the roger beep on an FT-70D

This radio does not have this feature. What follows is what it does have, and why the thing you were looking for is not here.

There is no roger beep on this radio. Nothing is appended to the end of your transmission and there is no setting for one. What there is, is a handful of beeps that fire at you rather than at anybody else, and one of them is probably the noise you are trying to stop.

  1. Item 4 BEEP is the key beep. OFF silences it, KEY beeps only on key presses, KEY+SC also beeps when a scan stops.hold F›dial → 4 BEEP›F›dial → OFF›PTTThe screen should show: BEEP, then OFF, KEY+SC or KEY.This is the one most people mean. It is a sound in your hand, not on the air.
  2. Item 5 BEP.LVL is the volume of that beep rather than a beep of its own, from LEVEL1 to LEVEL7.hold F›dial → 5 BEP.LVL›F›dial → LEVEL1›PTTThe screen should show: BEP.LVL and a level number.Worth trying before switching beeps off entirely — the beep is the only confirmation you get that a press registered.
  3. Item 7 BEP.STB is the closest thing this radio has, and it still is not a roger beep: it beeps when the station you are listening to stops transmitting in digital mode.hold F›dial → 7 BEP.STB›F›dial → OFF›PTTThe screen should show: BEP.STB, OFF or ON.C4FM has no squelch tail, so without this the end of a digital transmission is just silence. Plenty of people leave it on for exactly that reason.

Item 6 BEP.EDG is another: it beeps at a band edge and at memory channel 1. Item 8 BELL rings when a call arrives carrying a matching tone, DCS code or pager code, and item 24 GM RNG beeps for digital group information. If you are hearing a beep a moment after somebody stops talking and you are in analog FM, that is the repeater's courtesy tone, not your radio, and there is nothing at your end to change.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Turn off the voice announcements on an FT-70D

This radio does not have this feature. What follows is what it does have, and why the thing you were looking for is not here.

The FT-70D does not speak. There is no voice guidance item anywhere in the 64 settings, and no optional voice board for this radio — so there is nothing to switch off, and nothing to switch on either.

  1. If the radio is making noises you want rid of, item 4 BEEP is the one that exists.hold F›dial → 4 BEEP›F›dial → OFF›PTTThe screen should show: BEEP, OFF or on.Beeps are the whole of this radio's vocabulary.

If you want a handheld that announces menus and frequencies out loud, that is Kenwood and Icom territory on this site — the TH-D75 and the ID-52A both do it. Among the Yaesus, the FTM-510 mobile has a voice guide item but needs the optional FVS-2 board fitted before it says anything.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Turn off dual watch on an FT-70D

Dual receive on this radio is not two frequencies side by side — it is one frequency you listen to and one priority channel the radio checks every few seconds. Turning it off is one keypress. Getting it to work at all takes a little more, because the priority channel is not set from the factory.

  1. To switch it off: press the V/M key. The DW icon disappears.V/M (DW)The screen should show: DW goes off the display.That is the whole job if dual receive is the thing interrupting you.
  2. To switch it on again, press F then V/M.F›V/M (DW)The screen should show: The DW icon appears and the radio starts checking.
  3. If nothing happens when you turn DW on, no priority channel is set. Press V/M, hold V/M, turn the DIAL to the channel you want watched, press BAND — the radio asks PRICH? — and press BAND again.V/M›hold V/M›dial → the channel›BAND›BANDThe screen should show: PRICH, then a PRI icon beside that channel's number.Watch out. There is no priority channel from the factory. Dual receive with nothing to watch simply does nothing, which reads as a broken feature.

Item 21 DW INT sets how often the priority channel gets checked, from a tenth of a second to ten, and item 23 DW RVT decides whether the radio jumps to that channel and stays there when it hears something. Note that the Advance Manual points at item 22 for the interval — that is the scan stop setting, not the interval; 21 is the one.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Lock the keypad on an FT-70D

The lock is the power switch, pressed briefly rather than held.

  1. Press the POWER switch briefly. LOCK appears for a second and a padlock icon stays on the display.POWER (LOCK)The screen should show: LOCK, then a padlock.Press it again and the radio shows UNLOCK. Holding the same switch is what turns the radio off, so keep it brief.
  2. Item 30 LOCK decides what actually gets locked.hold F›dial → 30 LOCK›F›dial → K+P or ALL›PTTThe screen should show: LOCK, with KEY, DIAL, K+D, PTT, K+P, D+P or ALL.Watch out. The factory setting is K+D — keys and dial. The PTT switch is not included, so a locked radio in a coat pocket can still transmit. K+P or ALL is what you want for a radio going into a bag.

The MONI/T-CALL switch and the volume knob cannot be locked whatever you choose, which is deliberate: you can always open the squelch and change the volume on a locked radio.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Factory reset on an FT-70D

Two resets, and the difference is your memory channels. Both are keys held while you switch the radio on — two keys for the settings-only reset, three for the full one — and the combinations are not much alike, so read which one you are doing.

  1. Settings only: with the radio off, hold MODE and V/M together and switch it on. A confirmation screen appears — press F.switch the radio off›hold MODE + V/M›switch it on with both held›FThe screen should show: A beep and a confirmation, then the radio restarts with its settings back to factory.This is the one to try first. Your memory channels survive it untouched.
  2. Everything: hold MODE, HM/RV and AMS together and switch the radio on, then press F.switch the radio off›hold MODE + HM/RV + AMS›switch it on with all three held›FThe screen should show: A confirmation, then the callsign entry screen — which is how you know it really did clear everything.Watch out. This wipes every memory channel along with the settings. Write down what is in the radio first, or read it out with the programming software, because nothing here is recoverable.

Any key except F cancels either one at the confirmation screen. Worth knowing: the settings-only reset deliberately leaves about twenty items alone — your callsign, memory and bank names, the DP-ID list, personal pager codes, the password, the repeater shift and a handful of scan settings. If one of those is the thing misbehaving, only the full reset will clear it.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Register your callsign for C4FM on an FT-70D

In C4FM your callsign travels inside every transmission and shows up on the other operator's display. The radio asks for it the first time you switch it on, and plenty of people skip past that screen and never come back.

  1. Hold F to open Set Mode, turn the DIAL to item 64 MYCALL, and press F.hold F›dial → 64 MYCALL›FThe screen should show: A cursor on the first character.Watch out. On a European FT-70DE this item is 63, not 64 — everything above item 61 shifts down one because the weather alert item does not exist there.
  2. Type your callsign — up to ten characters.type N0CALLThe screen should show: The callsign building up.Press a number key repeatedly to cycle its letters, the way a phone keypad works, or turn the DIAL through the whole set. BAND moves the cursor right, MODE moves it left, and holding GM clears everything after the cursor.
  3. Press F, or squeeze PTT, to save it.FThe screen should show: Back to the frequency.Watch out. Only capital letters, digits, the hyphen and the slash are available, and a callsign cannot start with a hyphen or a slash. So N0CALL/M is fine; /N0CALL is not.

This is worth doing even if you never use digital deliberately, because AMS will drop the radio into C4FM the moment somebody calls you in it. It is also what the Group Monitor screen shows other people, and what a registered DP-ID contact is filed under.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Switch the radio into C4FM digital on an FT-70D

Out of the box this radio decides for itself: AMS listens to what is arriving and switches between analog FM and C4FM to match. That is the right setting for most people, and the reason to know about it is the times you want to override it.

  1. Hold the AMS key to turn automatic mode select on or off. The AMS icon shows when it is on.hold AMSThe screen should show: The AMS icon, with the current mode underneath it.It arrives on. With AMS on you answer a digital call in digital and an analog call in analog, without touching anything.
  2. Press MODE to pick the mode by hand: DN for digital, FM for analog. With AMS on this is temporary; with AMS off it sticks.MODEThe screen should show: DN, FM, or AM on the air band.Watch out. DN is the digital mode you want. VW is a wide, higher-quality voice mode that does not even appear in the list until you switch item 16 DIG VW on, and it will not reach a station that is not also in VW.
  3. Pressing AMS briefly sets what you transmit in, separately from what you receive.AMS›dial → TX AUT, TX FM or TX DIG›AMSThe screen should show: TX AUT, TX FM or TX DIG.TX FM pins your transmissions to analog while still letting the radio receive digital — which is the setting for a repeater you know is analog but a channel where digital signals also appear. TX DIG does the opposite.

The status LED tells you which mode you are actually in without reading the screen: green while receiving analog, blue while receiving digital, red on transmit in analog and blue on transmit in digital. Tone squelch and DCS do not work in digital mode at all, so if you have a tone set and the radio is in DN, the tone is doing nothing.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

Set the DG-ID so you only hear your group on an FT-70D

DG-ID is two numbers from 00 to 99 — one you send with, one you listen on. Set both to 00 and you hear every C4FM station. Set them to a number your group agrees on and you hear only each other. It is also how some repeaters decide whether to let you in.

  1. Hold the MODE key. The transmit number appears as T and two digits, blinking. Turn the DIAL to the number you want.hold MODE›dial → T50The screen should show: T00 blinking, then your number.
  2. Press MODE again to move to the receive number, shown as R, and set that one too.MODE›dial → R50The screen should show: R00 blinking, then your number.They are independent. The receive number is the one that decides what you hear.
  3. Hold MODE again, or squeeze PTT, to save and come out.hold MODEThe screen should show: Back to the frequency.
  4. To undo it all in a hurry, hold HM/RV while you are on that screen — both numbers go back to 00.hold HM/RVThe screen should show: T00 and R00.Watch out. A receive DG-ID other than 00 is the single most common reason an FT-70D sits there hearing nothing on a busy digital channel. If in doubt, set receive back to 00 and leave it there.

For a DR-2X repeater that wants a DG-ID, set your transmit number to the one the repeater asks for and leave receive on 00 — you will then hear everything coming back down. WIRES-X is a separate number again, at item 63 W-DGID (62 on a DE), which arrives on AUTO and only needs changing for a node that is not open. Pressing GM turns the Group Monitor on, which tells you who else with your DG-ID is in range.

Taken from the manufacturer's own manual for this model.

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