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Re: TS480 PF key question
From:
Lou Kline <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:58:58 -0500
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Hi.

That is how every Kenwood that I've ever worked with works.  My Kenwood 
TS690 operates when I plug in the interface to the MFJ993--the AT450 is 
automatically bypassed.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 12:35 PM 1/19/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>I think on the Kenwood radios, if it hooks up to the tuner's port on the
>back of the radio, the internal tuner is disabled and you use that button to
>tune it but I could be mistaken.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:52 AM
>Subject: TS480 PF key question
>
>
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > Sorry for another TS480 question, but I just thought of a problem that I
> > might encounter down the road as I put my TS480 in the motor home.
> >
> > It concerns the PF keys.
> >
> > Right now, as you probably know, the PF key on the TS480 right below the
> > on/off button is programmed to read the frequency I'm on.
> >
> > However, when I use the TS480 in the motor home, I will be tuning my
> > screw-driver-type antenna with an out-board device called the turbo-tuner.
> > The turbo-tuner is made by N2VZ.
> >
> > If I'm reading the turbo-tuner instructions correctly, that device
> > requires
> > a PF key to activate the tuner.  This means, of course, that I may have to
> > use the PF key right below the on/off button for this purpose.  Then, I'll
> > have no way to check my frequency voice read-out.
> >
> > Are there other PF keys on the TS480 that I'm unaware of here?
> >
> > Am I Going to have to consider purchasing a mic other than the stock mic,
> > that'll have extra PF keys on it?
> >
> > If so, what alternative mic would you recommend?
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can give me here.
> >
> > 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
> >
>
>
>
>
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Louis Kim Kline
A.R.S. K2LKK
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