AnyTone AT-5555 Plus Service Menu

[Recon]

My new radio works great with a 1.5 watt dead-key driving a 1 X 4 amp. Out of curiosity, I managed to access the Service Menu but has anyone managed to interpret the (confusing) digits and letters? Is there a cross-reference chart?

 

[9C1Driver]

I think there was a thread on this somewhere here. Just be careful what you mess with, some people have turned their radio's into E-Bay specials.

 

[Recon]

I think there was a thread on this somewhere here. Just be careful what you mess with, some people have turned their radio's into E-Bay specials.

I don't know how, but I did manage to navigate my way and reduce the Low Dead-Key and I'm done.
I sent an email to AnyTone several minutes ago requesting a cross-reference / translation chart.

 

[fourstringburn]

What I do know is in the service menu mode, the settings are value references and no two radio's will have the numbers same across the board. Also there is no factory default to revert back to so write down the original values before making changes so you can get back to the where you started in case you make a mistake.

I have my Anytone Q6 Pro hooked up to my PC with a USB cable and have the Anytone alignment software installed which will read the current data from the radio and then settings like power levels for all the different modes can be easily set with a mouse click with easy to read menu settings then saved. The radio's menu settings are set by using a separate radio menu software program. This is much easier than trying to figure out the letters and digits doing it manually on the radio.

Not sure if the Anytone 55555 has the same capability for PC menu settings and service menu settings for PC but it would be worth checking into.

 

[Recon]

What I do know is in the service menu mode, the settings are value references and no two radio's will have the numbers same across the board. Also there is no factory default to revert back to so write down the original values before making changes so you can get back to the where you started in case you make a mistake.

I have my Anytone Q6 Pro hooked up to my PC with a USB cable and have the Anytone alignment software installed which will read the current data from the radio and then settings like power levels for all the different modes can be easily set with a mouse click with easy to read menu settings then saved. The radio's menu settings are set by using a separate radio menu software program. This is much easier than trying to figure out the letters and digits doing it manually on the radio.

Not sure if the Anytone 55555 has the same capability for PC menu settings and service menu settings for PC but it would be worth checking into.

Great info! I'm not computer savvy at all. As I slowly navigated to each menu item, I realized the radio has more functions than I would ever need. I was expecting to see watts but when the number values were displayed, I gave it a try and reduced the numbers until the Bird meter indicated 1.5 watts and I quit.

 

[Greg T]

Great info! I'm not computer savvy at all. As I slowly navigated to each menu item, I realized the radio has more functions than I would ever need. I was expecting to see watts but when the number values were displayed, I gave it a try and reduced the numbers until the Bird meter indicated 1.5 watts and I quit.

I'm still not sold on setting up a radio/amp combo using dead carrier. With the new radios today, some are capable of putting out 60w to 80w PEP even with a 1 watt carrier. I believe a better way to set them up is with modulation. Begin with your carrier at near zero and then modulate it. Monitor the amp's output and slowly increase the radio power until you reach the desired output of the amp. Wherever the deadkey sits after that is what it is.

 

[Recon]

I'm still not sold on setting up a radio/amp combo using dead carrier. With the new radios today, some are capable of putting out 60w to 80w PEP even with a 1 watt carrier. I believe a better way to set them up is with modulation. Begin with your carrier at near zero and then modulate it. Monitor the amp's output and slowly increase the radio power until you reach the desired output of the amp. Wherever the deadkey sits after that is what it is.

The 1.5 carrier from the radio produces only 16 PEP watts. The 1.5 watt dead-key drives the two-pill into the ten-pill which produces a 200 watt dead-key out of the ten-pill and 1800 PEP watts out. So far........so good.

 

[Recon]

I think there was a thread on this somewhere here. Just be careful what you mess with, some people have turned their radio's into E-Bay specials.

I located a post by Blue Beam on how to access the Service Menu.