Thanks, Curtis, and I'm sure your TS590 tour will benefit many people.
Thanks for making the effort to put it together.
73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis Delzer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: some question on TS590 carrier settings and meter function
switch
> 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
>>
>>--------------------------------------------------
>>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
>
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