fun, and am working on the tour of the 590 for Handihams, should be 
done in a month or so, I hope. that is one pitfall I am definitely 
going to mention during the tour of the buttons.


At 09:41 PM 12/2/2011, you wrote:
>     Curtis, I have pulled that stunt also.
>One dandy boo boo I did the   other day was in the menus where I got the
>setting on Speaking Japanese and pushed a wrong button and then I could not
>understand what the hell was going , I tried a quick lesson on that language
>but failed so had to have my X Y L read the window which thank goodness was
>in English.  I'm applying for my novice ticket again hi.73  Ed   K7UC
>
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>From: "Curtis Delzer" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 7:41 PM
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: some question on TS590 carrier settings and meter function
>switch
>
> > be sure you don't attempt to use the rig after you have cycled that
> > "meter" switch, that is for running your rig at a few milliwatts for
> > powering a UHF/VHS transverter or linear which requires only a little
> > bit of drive.  I found that out, when I didn't realize my rig was in
> > that mode and was not enough to run the antenna tuner, and rig was
> > thereby, useless as a transmitter. :)
> >
> > Curtis Delzer
> >
> > W B 6 H E F
> > Fessenden, North Dakota; 58438-7300
> >
> >
> > At 04:28 PM 11/27/2011, you wrote:
> >>Hi, everyone.
> >>
> >>Today, I was late for the cross-country blind ops net, but did have a nice
> >>chat afterwords on 14.258 with Steve (KW3A) and Bob (WA0KZB).  Hope I got
> >>your call right, Bob.  (grin)
> >>
> >>Anyway, Steve indicated that I sounded a bit light, so I did some
> >>re-adjusting of carrier and mic gain settings so that now, for SSB, my
> >>carrier setting is 50, and my mic gain setting is 68.  These are close to,
> >>if not identical to, the settings Steve uses for his Heil mic, and since I
> >>too have a Heil GM5 mic, I thought I'd replicate those settings.
> >>
> >>When I did some testing, my ALC meter said "over" several times, but when
> >>I
> >>backed off from the mic a bit, the readings ran between 12 and 14.
> >>
> >>So, I think I'm clost to being in the ball park here.
> >>
> >>Do these settings sound reasonable?
> >>
> >>My next questions are these:  1.  can you vary the carrier settings by
> >>mode?;  and 2.  What's a reasonable carrier setting for CW mode?  And, ?
> >>
> >>Finally, I made one other interesting discovery here:  If I press the
> >>meter
> >>function button longer than usual, I seem to go into a mode where the
> >>carrier function does not read out any longer.  In other words, I get "a0"
> >>no matter what I do.  Does anyone know what this extra function of the
> >>meter
> >>function button is?
> >>
> >>I thought I'd ask these questions here, rather than posting them to the
> >>TS590 list, where folks might not totally understand what we have to go
> >>through to make things work correctly sometimes.
> >>
> >>73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ