REDUCING SQUELCH TAIL
If you are communicating with a repeater or another station using subaudible tones, you can eliminate the squelch tail (the burst of noise the other person hears when you stop transmitting) by turn- ing on the transmit delay option. When you turn on this feature and use CTCSS, the radio continues to transmit for a short period of time after you release PTT, but then it immediately drops the subaudible tone. This causes the other radio to close the squelch before there is “dead air,” preventing the squelch tail.
Use the Main Menu (see “Using the
16)to set the transmit delay option, . Then, with t.dy and the current status displayed, press 
or 
to turn this feature on or off.
BUSY CHANNEL LOCKOUT
Use the Main Menu to set the busy channel lockout (see “Using the 
or 
to change the display to bCLO oN. Repeat this step to change the display back to bCLO oF to disable the lockout .
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