If the AUTO bar is not lit the radio will not change the MODE to match the incoming signal. If the radio is in AUTO mode it can be changed by an incoming signal to DN, DW or FM but the AUTO bar will remain lit above these modes. The FTM-400 MODE of operation is determined by settings in the basic radio hardware. After much discussion from both experts it turns out that there is no field in the stored memory channels for the MODE option. Last year at Hamvention I made several trips back and forth between the RT booth and the Yaesu booth. The radio pays not attention to the MODE entry. Using the RT software I programmed the few Fusion machines in AUTO mode and the rest in FM mode assuming that the FTM-400 would follow automatically the mode in the programmed field. There are very few Fusion repeaters in my area compared to analog repeaters. I can't say I have every heard of that before. Maybe because of the frequency it was defaulted to AM without the computers input. I have about 40 air band channels programmed from the computer only with AM selected.
RTS does have a section for Operating Mode with 4 choices.
Easy to figure out of you know what to look for.
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It's been awhile since I spent any time programing the radio which is a 400D and RTS does update their software from time to time so things may have changed. If you are certain that setup on the radio and computer file are the same then a lot of what I wrote you can skip. Now you are back to the setup you had just before you removed the SD card before you took it to the computer. Go back to read from SD card and select SETUP. On the radio you will read from SD card ALL as that's were RTS put your channel & 'setup' data. That's the key to getting the radio back to the same setup. Remember that radio write to SETUP you made before you removed the card. I seldom read from the card so that's why for me the setup between the radio and computer is likely different. RTS will write whatever radio setup you have in the program and its a good bet it is out of sync with the radio. RTS always uses the ALL location when it writes to the SD card and has no knowledge of the other two. ALL, MEMORY or SETUP and as a standard practice I always write to all three if I'm planning to make changes. The radio writes and reads to three different folders depending on the option selected. And for the head pounding on the desk I have been doing with the Yaesu software, I am all for it at this point since it doesn't appear that chirp will be supporting this radio anytime soon. My question is, is it worth the 25 bucks? As it is now, I am looking at sitting in my truck and manually entering frequencies and offsets and CTCSS/DTMF. Now, I do recall reading somewhere that the RT Systems software, while being a paid-for product, is superior to the Yaesu program, if only marginally so. I backed up the radio to the SD card, brought it in and put it in the computer, and when trying to import the SD card data into the Yaesu ADMS-7 software, it gives an error reading the. However, the Yaesu-supplied software is questionable- for starters, it doesn't even accept the data from the radio itself. Thus, I am left to the SC card method, which is okay. So, being that this is my mobile and permanently mounted in my truck, using the SCU20 cable is not a valid solution.