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