Eleven radios, each condensed from its own manual into one page you can keep open or print. Free to use, and free to pass on.
Every one of these started the same way: a manual of eighty to two hundred pages, and the same four or five things needed from it over and over. What each key does on a short press and a long press. Where the setting actually lives in the menu. Which defaults matter. What the radio will not do until something else is switched on first.
So these are not summaries of the manual. They are the working parts of it, pulled out and put in order, with the traps written down where the manual buried them in a footnote.
These quick reference guides were created from PDFs of the actual paper manual.
Unofficial. Abbree publishes no manual, so this is condensed from the factory manual for the PD881, the radio Abbree sells under its own badge. Controls, the knob and its three jobs, contacts and calling, scan, zones, messages, channel editing and the full specification.
DMRAnalog FM
Keys and key sequences, the menu tree, DMR calling, and the settings worth changing out of the box. From manual revision A1.180912.
DMRAnalog FM
The order to build a codeplug in, every channel and Optional Setting field with a recommended value, satellite operation, and the display icons.
DMRAnalog FM
The whole programmable key list, both settings menus in full, the DMR mode and slot options that decide whether a hotspot works, digital monitor, roaming, the recorder and APRS.
DMRAnalog FM
Every key on a short and a long press, the programmable key list, the menu map, DMR and private calls, a repeater worked example, and the two different CPS baud rates.
DMRAnalog FM
The OpenRTX handheld. The three screens, seven digit frequency entry, the Macro Menu, the whole menu tree, and the CAN and CAN Rx Check pair that decides whether you hear anyone at all.
M17Analog FM
Keys on push and on hold, the whole menu map with factory defaults, D-STAR operation, the reset procedures and the specifications.
D-STARAnalog FM
The VHF and UHF P25 portables. Controls, the full programmable function list, P25 group and individual calls, NAC and signaling, FleetSync, and the universal connector pinout.
P25Analog FM
Keypad short and long press, the whole menu in one place, the definable key list, DTMF remote control, and the NOAA weather channels.
DMRAnalog FM
All nine menus, the 41 definable key functions, promiscuous mode, DTMF remote control, the NOAA channels, and the GPS and APRS the Pro adds.
DMRAnalog FM
Both function menu screens, AMS and the C4FM modes, DG-ID, memory with PMG and CAM, the band scope, Bluetooth and VOX, the preset receiver channels, and the full setup menu tables.
C4FMAnalog FM
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I create quick references guides for the VHF/UHF digital voice radios and equipment I use at my station primarily. However, if there is a guide not listed here that you would find useful then drop me an email note at chris@n6jet.com. VHF/UHF digital voice radios and equipment only.
Each one is a single page. Nothing loads from anywhere else, so it will open on a phone at a hilltop with one bar, and it will print without the navigation or the styling getting in the way. Print to PDF and it will sit on a tablet next to the radio quite happily.
What these are not
They do not replace the manual. Every one of them leaves out the safety warnings, the battery handling and the RF exposure sections, and those are worth reading once in the original. Where a radio has its own separate manuals for a subsystem, the guide says so and points at them rather than pretending to cover them.
Each guide names the exact manual and revision it was built from, at the foot of the page. If your radio came with a different revision, check anything that looks off against your own copy.
If something here is wrong, it is worth telling me, and it will get fixed. These are built from the manufacturer's own documentation, but manuals contain errors too, and a radio in the hand sometimes disagrees with the book that came with it.
Every guide is condensed from the named manufacturer's own operating manual, and the manuals themselves remain the property of their makers. Model names and numbers are used to identify the equipment described. These pages are offered free for the use of amateur radio operators.