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Steve Forst <[log in to unmask]>
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For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:15:17 -0500
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You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.   Sure if you can figure it out no 
need to reset.   To me the reset is like a parachute.  I'd rather jump than 
figure out why the plane is full of smoke.

73, Steve KW3A
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: TS2000 help


> Isn't it more worth while to figure out what you did rather than reset the
> radio all the time? I've never reset my radio that I can recall. Not since
> my old TS-450, and I did figure out later I accidently put it in split and 
> I
> think I only did that once.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:40 PM
> Subject: Re: TS2000 help
>
>
>> Gary,
>>
>> There are 2 modes of reset:  one  blows it all away to factory defaults.
>> The other leaves menu settings and memory  channels intact while   only
>> resetting  internal radio stuff.
>>
>> One mode uses the a=b button and the other uses the a/b button.
>> procedure
>> is the same, just use one button or the other.   It's been so long since
>> I've done it here, I forget which is which, but obviously whatever you 
>> did
>> was the  one that preserves menus.
>>
>> hope it solved your problem.  In the next few weeks, the reset is your
>> best
>> friend, so get to know him.   BTW, before storing a lot of frequencies,
>> you
>> should get the mcp-2000 program to back stuff to the pc so you can get it
>> loaded back if a full reset is needed.
>>
>> The one reset is a full and the other one is called a partial.
>>
>> 73, HNY, Steve KW3A
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Gary Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: TS2000 help
>>
>>
>>> Thanks Steve, pressing the A=B button a second time did it.  However, it
>>> didn't change some of the settings that I had previously changed.  Such
>>> as
>>> the beep output level and a few more.  Wasn't that supposed to put
>>> everything back to the factory settings?  Any way after that it will now
>>> tune on all bands again.  How do you get the voice to read out the  S
>>> meter?
>>> Thanks for your help and I'm sure I'll have a lot more questions as I go
>>> on
>>> trying to learn the radio.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> On Behalf Of Steve Forst
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:33 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: TS2000 help
>>>
>>> Congrats, hope it works well for you.    If you have the sub rx on, 
>>> maybe
>>> you have switched control to it and the tuner does notwork  on the sub.
>>>
>>> Anyway, to reset you need to push the a=b button a second time.   After
>>> doing what you have already done, there is a message that comes up on 
>>> the
>>> display asking if you really want to reset.   If you  press the a=b
>>> button
>>> again within a few seconds  the reset is completed.   If you do nothing,
>>> the
>>>
>>> reset is aborted and
>>> everything stays  as it was.
>>>
>>> Have fun, Steve KW3A
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Gary Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:11 PM
>>> Subject: TS2000 help
>>>
>>>
>>>> Okay, the rig came in the other day and I had a sighted friend help me
>>>> set
>>>> it up and he showed me enough to get me started on HF and everything
>>>> worked
>>>> great.  So I started exploring which buttons did what.  Now I can't get
>>>> the
>>>> rig to tune on any band.  The receiver seems to be working fine, it 
>>>> just
>>>> won't tune.  I tried pressing the A=B button as I turned the radio on 
>>>> to
>>>> do
>>>> a complete reset but that didn't appear to do anything.  Is there
>>>> another
>>>> way to reset the radio?  Any help would be much appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> 73, Gary, N5GD
>>>>
>>>
> 

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