<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div id="yiv0656301862"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="" class="yiv0656301862" id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_1_1403624590793_6414">Experimentally I have determined that this frequency object will be correctly acted upon by both the Kenwood D710 and the Yaesu FTM-350AR:</div><div style="" class="yiv0656301862" id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_10"><br style=""></div><div class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"
id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_12">;146.75XYZ*111111z4904.29N/09706.79Wr146.750MHz TOFF -060</div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_28" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br style="" class="yiv0656301862" id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_38"></div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_35" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">The Kenwood D710 will correctly interpret this shorter format:<br></div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_45" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br style="" class="yiv0656301862" id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_50"></div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_47" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;
font-style:normal;">;146.75XYZ*111111z4904.29N/09706.79WrTOFF -060</div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_52" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_57"></div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_54" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">The Yaesu actually gets the frequency from the comment portion, i.e. the part following, in the above example, ...06.79Wr, as it cannot actually correctly interpret a frequency object.</div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_65" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue,
Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_69"></div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_1_1403624590793_6650" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Note that the Yaesu requires fff.fffMHz, i.e. 3 digits before and after the decimal point.</div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_72" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_77"></div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_74" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0,
0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">The net effect is that the beacon is increased in length by 11 bytes
in order to provide Kenwood & Yaesu compatibility.<br></div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_79" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_84"></div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_81" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">The XYZ in the leading part of the string, which would be just XY if a frequency such as 146.755 were specified, is very handy as in the D710 display list those characters help you recognize the repeater location based upon the choice of these letters. For example Thief River Falls, MN would be shown as 146.75TRF in the displayed
list.<br></div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_86" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_91"></div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_88" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">In my travels I find that very few digipeaters are actually transmitting these useful beacons. All of mine are, and I wish this would become standard practice, minimizing the need for a repeater directory in the car!</div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_93" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica
Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_98"></div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_95" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">The Yaesu web page indicates that the FTM-350AR is out of production! It's replacement, it seems, is a FTM-400DR. However, reading the documents for the FTM-400DR, it does not appear to include a QSY function based upon a frequency object beacon! I have been transmitting the D710 version noted above for several years, covering all of NW Minnesota, and only in the last few weeks have been asked why this did not work for the FTM-350AR. I would guess few FTM-350AR's were sold vs the D710.</div><div
id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_109" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_114"></div><div id="yiv0656301862yui_3_16_0_6_1403624590793_103" class="yiv0656301862" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Ron, AE5E<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>