Pow - Setting The Transmission Power; Squelch - Midland G18 Manual De Instrucciones

4. Turn again the Encoder knob and select the desired VOX level: 1=
low sensitivity; 9= highest sensitivity.
5. Confirm your selection with the ENT key.
POW – Setting the transmission power
G18 has 2 power levels.
To select the desired level:
1. Press the MENU button;
2. Rotate the Encoder knob till the display shows "POW";
3. Press ENT;
4. Rotate the encoder knob and select the desired power level;
5. Press ENT to confirm. If you selected the low power, the display will
show "LOW"
By default, both low and high power are set at 500mW.

Squelch

The Squelch function suppresses noises on free channels and allows to
receive even weak signals.
G18 has 10 (0-9) different Squelch levels that can be set by programming
software or Menu:
0 means that the Squelch is turned off; from level 1 to level 9 you will
have different levels of noise reduction. The higher is the level, the louder
will be the Squelch.
By default, the Squelch level is set on level 5.
To select the Squelch level:
1. Press the MENU button;
2. Turn the Encoder knob until "SQL" is displayed;
3. Press the ENT button;
4. Turn the Encoder knob and select the desired Squelch level (the le-
vels available are 10);
5. Confirm your selection with ENT.
Make sure you do not set an excessively high squelch level because in
this case you may not be able to receive weaker signals. On the other
hand an excessively low Squelch value could enable the Squelch even
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