Hi Jerry,

Regarding battery life, I've always had the opposite experience.  Try
charging it again to see if it improves.  6.5 hours should be more than
enough time.  It's possible you may have a bad pack, although I think
that's rare.

Steve

On Thursday 10/21/04 11:16 Jerry Neufeld wrote:

>Hello Steve.
>
>Thank you very much for your help. I have nearly mastered most of the
>features of this rig but have some things yet to learn. I'm a bit surprised
>at the rather short battery life I experienced for the first time but,
>perhaps, I had not charged the battery sufficiently the first time, 6-1/2
>hours.
>
>Hello to Martia. Again, my thanks.
>
>Jerry
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:19 AM
>Subject: Re: th-f6a & writing data to memories
>
>
> > Jerry,
> >
> > It's important to note that memories that have never been written don't
> > appear as you rotate the tuning knob.  However, it is still possible to
> > select any memory for writing.  For example, suppose you have written to
> > memory 9 and now want to store something in memory 10, which up to now has
> > not been written.  Press the Memory key and select memory 9, either by
> > rotating the tuning knob or directly entering the memory number from the
> > keyboard.  Then switch to the VFO where, presumably, you have stored the
> > data you want to write.  Press the Function key and rotate the tuning knob
> > clockwise one click.  You are now ready to write to memory 10 by pressing
> > the Memory key.  Note that you could have written to another higher memory
> > by simply rotating the tuning knob clockwise the appropriate number of
> > clicks.  Similarly, you could have selected a lower memory by rotating the
> > knob counter-clockwise.  You can even access the Priority, Information,
>and
> > scanning range memories by rotating the tuning knob counter-clockwise
> > beyond memory 0.  I'm not certain of the order, but I believe the
> > information memories are closest to 0, and are in decreasing sequence.  I
> > find it much easier to change these memories using the software, although
>I
> > have successfully done so using the method described above.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Tuesday 10/19/04 23:21 Jerry Neufeld wrote:
> >
> > >Hello folks.
> > >
> > >What would I do without this list! I now have my th-f6a and like
>everything
> > >I've seen. I have not been able to figure out, however, how I can write
> > >repeater frequencies and related data to sequencial memories. From what I
> > >see, memory storage is not incremental. Nor would I have expected it to
>be.
> > >Memory 01 simply gets overwritten. Is there a way to either specify a
> > >particular memory via the keypad or increment a memory location by 1 to
> > >store a new location? And, are the memories independent of bands?
> > >
> > >Thanks to any who knows and who is willing to share their wisdom.
> > >
> > >Jerry