So, I just quickly did a video with step by step adding a repeater to memory from the VFO on the IC-705. This also includes a CTCSS Tone access being programmed.
https://youtu.be/4cT-tQXgPkg
This was just one memory, but I think I hit all the important stuff. If this helped you, I'll make some more step by steps. I helped a few hams quite a few years ago doing this with an older radio.
Thanks. As noted previously, the manual is OK for single repeaters into memory. However, I use my 705 in parks 100% of the time, several times a week. I would use a 51a similarly as I have no interest in my local repeaters.
What is needed here are: BATCH uploads of multiple repeaters at multiple locations, and NEAR REPEATER.
I am correct. Even though these are advertised features for both radios and everybody talks about them as if they exist, nobody has actually done this for either radio. I've posted 3-4 times in various places for the 51a over the last 5 years, and at least twice for the 705 since I purchased it last summer. I keep getting the same responses.
I have a Baofeng radio here that does TX and RX on 320m through GHz frequencies through a 2-inch antenna. The battery lasts for 100 hours of continuous Tx. It has 100,000 memories and makes contacts worldwide at any time of day. The only problem is nobody knows how to get those features, but from what I read on the Internet you can access them through the touch screen and using free software (CHIRP). It's FS, $400 OBO.