Hot Springs Village Amateur Radio Club
Wouxum KG-UV8D Set-up Instructions
Click on Youtube link to watch the setup of Wouxum KG-UV8D radio:
Learn how to program your radio for one freq. Instructions from the YouTube video
Turn On
VFO mode
-146.8800
Menu -16 – menu
-114.8
Menu – 23 –menu
– 00.6000
Menu -24 – menu
– –
Menu – 4 – menu
high
Menu -27 – menu
– select save channel 1-999
Menu
Exit
Why use Cross band repeat function
When I lived in a community I would walk my dog around the neighborhood. I could hear our club 2 meter repeater just fine but had difficulty having a decent conversation using my HT with a rubber duck. I bought a dual band HT and would set up the dual band radio, in my house, to cross band repeat. I would “talk” to my base radio on UHF, it would “repeat” over to VHF and when I unkeyed I could listen to the VHF just fine. My HT was set at 500mw and would be full quieting
Your dual band radio, that’s capable of cross band repeating, essentially becomes a repeater repeater. It can be set up, according to your flavor of radio, to have different ways in which to cross band repeat.
Be sure to ID each TX frequency, to be legal, if you want to experiment. Option one is, for example, that your HT transmits to your cross band radio on 446.025mhz, the cross band radio then simultaneously transmits on 147.735mhz (input to 147.135mhz) and keys up the VHF repeater. You carry on your conversation and then unkey your HT, the cross band radio will then unkey and you listen to 147.135mhz on the HT and the cross band radio is NOT transmitting. This option is easiest since ALL transmitters are ID’d.
Option two is, the HT transmits on 446.025mhz and the cross band radio simultaneously transmits on 147.735mhz and the VHF repeater transmits on 147.135mhz. When you unkey your HT the cross band radio now transmits BACK to your HT on 446.025mhz. With this option the transmission FROM the cross band radio now has to be ID’d legally. It can be done but requires more of an effort to do so.
I hope I didn’t confuse you, when I first started doing it someone tried to explain it to me and I had to draw it out on paper for it to make sense to me. I haven’t used cross banding in many years but I consider a useful mode.
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The process isn’t really that complicated, once you know where to look in the menu. The key menu item is: 37 – RPT-SET Repeater Settings. Entering this menu item will take you to a sub-menu. The items in the sub-menu are:
– X-DIRPT Directional Cross Band Repeat
– X-TWRPT 2-way Cross Band Repeat
– X-DIRPT mode sets the radio as a directional cross-band repeater. When this mode is enabled, a small “repeat” icon will appear in the upper left corner of the display.
– X-TWRPT mode sets the radio as a two way cross band repeater. When this mode is enabled, the “repeat” icon will appear in the upper left corner of the display.
To set up cross band repeat:
Turn on the radio
Enter VFO (frequency) mode
Press the MENU button
Input the number 37 or scroll to RPT-SET in the menu.
Press MENU again
Scroll through the menu and select either X-DIRPT (Directional Cross Band Repeater) or X-TWRPT (Two Way Cross Band Repeater)
Set the desired frequencies in the corresponding slots A and B
Press and hold RPT button until icon appears in top left corner of the screen.
Your Wouxun KG-UV8D radio is now set up as either a directional cross band repeater or a two way cross band repeater.
To cancel cross band repeat: Press RPT and hold until icon disappears.
Wouxun KG-UV8D Menu Definitions
1 STEP Frequency Step
– Amount of frequency change when using Up/Down arrows or when scanning in VFO Mode.
Note: 2.5kHz not available on V1.01 *
2.5* / 5 / 6.25 / 10 /
12.5 / 25 / 50 / 100 kHz
2 SQL-LE Squelch Level
– Squelch silences the receiver when there is no signal. 0 > 9
3 SAVE Battery Save
– Receiver goes into a sleeping mode until a signal is detected. OFF / ON
4 TXPTransmit Power
– VHF High = 5 watts Low = 1 watt
– UHF High = 4 watts Low = 1 watt
5 ROGER Prompt at beginning/end of transmission
– BOT Prompt at Beginning of each transmission.
– END Prompt at End of transmission
– BOTH Prompt at Beginning and End of transmission
6 TOT Transmission Time Out Timer
– Transmit Times Out after pre-selected time.
– Radio will alert you when the time is up.
– This helps prevent overheating. 15 / 30 > 600 secs
7 VOX Voice Operated Xmtr
– Allows transmitter activation by talking only.
– Adjust VOX gain to allow smooth operation.
– Level 10 requires the strongest voice. OFF /1, 2 > 9
8 WN Wideband / Narrowband
– Wide = 5 KHz Narrow = 2.5 KHz
– For Ham use, start with selecting Wide. WIDE / NARR
9 VOICE Voice Prompt
– Audible confirmation of a keypad entry. OFF /ENG / CHI
10 TOA Transmit Overtime Alarm (TOA) OFF / 1, 2 > 10
– Beep tone and LCD flashes X seconds before timeout setting.
11 BEEP Keypad Beep OFF / ON
– Allows audible confirmation of a key press and audible warnings.
12 LANGUAGE Display Language Chinese / English
13 BCL Busy Channel Lockout OFF / ON
– Prevents transmitting on a busy frequency.
– If another repeater or signal is present using a different CTCSS or DCS code, your transmitter will be ‘locked out’ to prevent interference. When PTT is keyed, radio will sound a Beep Tone.
14 SC-REV Scan Resume Method TO / CO / SE
TO (Time Operation) Scan stops when signal detected.
Scan resumes after 5 seconds.
CO (Carrier Operation) Scan stops when signal detected.
Scan resumes 3 seconds after signal disappears.
SE (Search Operation) Scan stops when signal detected.
Scanning will not resume.
15 R-CTC Rec – Continuous Tone Coded Squelch OFF / 67.0 Hz > 254.1 Hz Prevents interference from signals on the same frequency.
– The squelch will open only if the incoming signal is coded with the same tone required by your receiver.
– Note: Not all repeaters requiring a tone for access transmit a tone back to you.
– Leave this function turned OFF unless you are absolutely sure it is needed.
16 T-CTC Trans – Continuous Tone Coded Squelch OFF / 67.0 Hz > 254.1 Hz
– Required by some networks to limit access and interference.
17 R-DCS Rec – Digital Coded Squelch OFF / D023N > D754I
– Prevents interference from signals on the same frequency.
– The squelch will open only if the incoming signal is coded with the same tone required by your receiver.
– Note: Not all repeaters requiring a tone for access transmit a tone back to you. Leave this function turned OFF unless you are absolutely sure it is needed.
18 T-DCS Trans – Digital Coded Squelch OFF / D023N > D754I – Required by some networks to limit access and interference.
19 PF1-KEY PF1 Side Key CALL / VFTX
– CALL: Selective Call
– VFTX: Transmission on Sub-Frequency
20 PF3-KEY PF3 Side Key
– SCAN: Activate Scan
– LAMP: Turn On Lamp
– Tele Alarm: Remote Alarm
– SOS-CH: SOS Function
– RADIO: Turn On FM Radio
– Disable: Inactive
21 CH-MDF Transceiver has 2 Working Modes FREQ or CHAN
– 1) Frequency Mode (FREQ)
– 2) Channel Mode (3 channel modes available)
Channel (CH)
Frequency + Channel Number (CH FREQ)
Channel Name (NAME)
22 ABR Automatic Backlight Timer Always ON 1 > 20 seconds
– Always ON
– Backlight Timer 1 > 20 seconds
23 OFFSET Offset Frequency 0 > 599.995 MHz
– 0 to 599.995MHz
24 SFT-D Frequency Shift Direction + – OFF
+ Possitive Direction
– Negative Direction
OFF No frequency shift
25 SECOND Stopwatch Timer OFF / ON
– ON Activate
– OFF Deactivate
26 CHNAME Channel Name A-Z 0-9
– Composed of 26 letters (A-Z) and 10 numbers (0-9)
– 8 characters max
27 MEM-CH Memory Channel 1-999
– 999 Channels Available
28 DEL-CH Channel Delete 1-999
– 999 Channels Available
29 SC-CTC CTCSS Scanning SCANNING
– In receive mode, press MENU to activate CTCSS Scanning
30 SC-DCSDCS Scanning SCANNING
– In receive mode, press MENU to activate DCS Scanning
31 SP-MUTE Mute Settings
– There are 3 Squelch Settings
QT*DTMF, QT+DTMF, QT
32 ANI-SW Caller ID Transmission Settings
– ON: Activate
– OFF: Deactivate
33 ANI-EDIT Automatic Keypad Lock 100 > 999999
– Individual Caller IDs can be chosen within the range
100 > 999999
– Cannot begin with 0 (zero)
34 DTMFST DTMF Sidetone Settings
– DT-ST Keypad Sidetone activated when transmitting
– ANI-ST Caller ID Sidetone activated when transmitting
– DT-ANI Caller ID and Keypad sidetones activated when transmitting.
– OFF Deactivate ALL
35 AUTOLK Automatic Keypad Lock OFF / ON
When ON, keypad will be locked if not used in 15 seconds.
– Pressing the [# LOCK] key for 2 seconds will Lock/Unlock the keys on the keypad.
36 PRICH-SW Priority Channel Switch OFF / ON
– ON Activate
– OFF Deactivate
37 RPT-SET Repeater Settings
– X-DIRPT Directional Cross Band Repeat
– X-TWRPT 2-way Cross Band Repeat
38 RPT-SPK Repeater Speaker Switch
– ON Speaker Active when repeating
– OFF Speaker Inactive when repeating
39 RPT-PTT Repeater PTT Switch
– ON PTT transmission activated when repeating
– OFF PTT transmission blocked when repeating
40 SCAN-ADD Scan Channel Add
– ON When scanning channels, they will be added to the scanning channels
– OFF Channels will not be added to the table when scanning
41 ALERT Single Tone Pulse Frequency
– There are 4 single tone pulse frequency options
1000Hz, 1450, 1750Hz, 2100 Hz
42 PTT-DLY PTT ID Delay
– Delay can be set at 100ms, 200ms > 30,000ms
43 PTT-ID Caller ID Transmission Mode
– BOT Press PTT to send Caller ID
– EOT Release PTT to send Caller ID
– BOTH Press and Release both send Caller ID
44 RING Ring Time
– 1 > 10 levels Each level = 1 second
– OFF Deactivated
OFF
45 SCG-A Scan Channel Group NO. of A Area
– Options are:
SCAN ALL, Group 1, Group 2 > Group10
46 SCG-B Scan Channel Group NO. of B Area
– Options are:
SCAN ALL, Group 1, Group 2 > Group10
47 PRT-TONE Repeater Receipt Tone
– ON Activate
– OFF Deactivate
48 SC-QT Saving Scan Mode
– ALL Save both Rx and TX CTCSS/DCS
– DEC Save RX CTCSS/DCS
– NEC Save TX CTCSS/DCS
49 SMUTESET Setting Sub-Frequency Mute
– OFF Deactivate this function
– TX Deactivate volume on sub-frequency when transmitting on master frequency
– RX Deactivate volume on sub-frequency when receiving on master frequency
– TX/RX Deactivate volume on sub-frequency when transmitting and receiving on master frequency
50 CALLCODE Selective Call Code Group Setting
– Selective call group: 1-20
51 RESET Reset Setting
– VFO: Reset menu functional Parameters
– ALL: Reset all (menu and channel) functional parameters