The Menu

Summary: How to move around the menu, what the categories hold, the most useful items, and the hidden menu.

Using the Menu

Press M to open the menu. Current Fusion firmware opens on a category browser: pick a category with the navigation keys and press M to see its items. Choose All for the original flat list. You can also type an item’s number from the category screen to jump to it.

Once an item is highlighted, press M to enter it, change the value with the navigation keys, and press M to confirm or EXIT to cancel. EXIT returns to the category screen, and again to leave the menu.

Categories

• Channels – step, power, tones, offset, bandwidth and channel settings.
• Scan – scan list, priority channels, resume mode and scan engine.
• Keys – programmable shortcuts, keypad lock and PTT mode.
• Power – battery saver, battery display, inactivity sleep and screen saver.
• Display – channel display, startup screen, backlight and interface style.
• Timers – transmit timeout and end-of-transmission alerts.
• Audio – microphone, beeps, volume and receive audio profiles.
• Radio – squelch, squelch tail eliminator, roger beep, VOX and RxMode.
• DTMF – codes, side tone and live decoder.
• Service – the hidden items, shown only after the hidden-menu start-up gesture.

Handy Items

• Sql – squelch level.
• Step – frequency step.
• Power and SetPwr – transmit power (see the F Lock article).
• W/N – Wide (25 kHz) or Narrow (12.5 kHz) bandwidth.
• Mode – FM, AM or USB. AM and USB are for listening only.
• BusyCL – blocks transmitting while a signal is being received.
• RxDCS / RxCTCS – only open squelch for a matching code or tone. Press \* SCAN inside these to search for the code.
• TxDCS / TxCTCS – the code or tone you transmit.
• STE / RP STE – squelch tail eliminators.
• SetRxA – receive audio profile. FM: Flat, Clean (default), Mid, Boost, Max. AM: Sharp, Stock, Open.
• SetNFM – Narrow or Narrower FM.
• SetVol – fine volume gain.
• SysInf – firmware version, build details and battery information.
• POnMsg – what is shown at start-up.
• BLTime, BLMin, BLMax, BLTxRx – backlight timeout, brightness and behaviour.
• SetInv, SetCtr – inverted display and contrast.
• SetMet, SetGUI – S-meter and interface style, Classic or Tiny.

The Hidden Menu

Hold PTT and side button 1 while switching the radio on, then release all keys. It holds F Lock (the transmit band plan), 350 En (receive on 350 MHz), BatCal, BatTyp, SetNav and Reset. Reset can clear just channel settings (VFO) or everything (ALL), so use it carefully.