Steve,

I don't know if this will give you the info you need, but here is a link to 
google's html version of the manual for this rig.

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:ag6kOC-vNXsJ:www.rigpix.com/yaesu/vx7r_manual.pdf+Yaesu+VX-7R+manual&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

73, Steve KW3A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Matzura" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:48 AM
Subject: VX-7R Revisited


>I just finished searching the archives for this mailing list for
> anything having to do with the Yaesu VX-7R transceiver.  I've owned
> this rig for practically two years now and still have yet to use it!
> Strange as that may sound, I actually did use it for about a month on
> two repeaters here in New York, but since then, one has gone PL and
> the other off-air, so that put the kibosh on that!  I next tried some
> public-domain programming software to load the thing up with some
> local freqs and PL settings, but all that did was fix it so that
> memory #1 held one channel from the group I was trying to program into
> the radio, and I've forgotten the key sequence to restore the thing to
> factory defaults!  I have the manual, but when it's displayed in
> Acrobat, all the key-presses are graphics.  I'm seriously thinking of
> printing the manual and scanning it, hoping that the scanner software
> will read the key-press graphics as whatever they are--numbers in a
> box, numbers in different type fonts or shadings, etc.  Before I go
> killing a tree for the hundred-and-four pieces of paper it's going to
> take to print this thing, has anybody any suggestions on how to
> unstick this radio and/or a good link or reference to the manual in
> plain-text?  I have a keyboard layout that I thought I got either from
> Handi-Hams or icanworkthisthing.com, but no manual.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> de WB2KTV
> AR K
>