Hi John,

Thanks for the info also,  I am reading up on it and think I have just
about figured out how to write into the memories.  It is a great rig and I
hope some day I can master some of it so I can comfortably operate it.

Bud

At 02:45 PM 11/17/02, you wrote:
>To add to this email,  I don't know the WARC bands off hand either I believe
>17 meters is 18.068 to 18.168   but don't hold me to that, that's the only
>WARC band I use frequently. To program them in memory on the 940, you hold
>the bottom right button in the group of 6 above the numbers/band buttons,
>and hit the number you want, like for example, if you want it in memory 1
>you hold that bottom right button down up over the number pad and hit 1,
>which doubles as the 160 meter band button, memory 2, you hit #2  and so on
>making sure to hold that bottom right button in while doing it or it won't
>program that memory.   I hope that makes sense,  that is a great radio I've
>had mine almost a year now and use it all the time almost daily.
>John Miller N1UMJ
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Don Bishop" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 4:06 PM
>Subject: Re: frequency limits of the ham bands
>
>
> > Hi Bud,
> >
> > Well, don't worry, I still am not sure of the exact band limits for the
> > WARC bands, but I think I have the others down pretty well now except
> > for 160.  <grin>
> >
> > 80 is 3.5 to 4 MHz.
> >
> > 40 is 7 to 7.3
> >
> > 20 is 14.0 to 14.350
> > 15 is 21.0 to 21.450
> > 10 is 28.0 to 29.7
> >
> >
> > I also have a ts940 and what I do is to program the bottom edge of each
> > band into a memory, note that I use cw a lot so you might want the
> > bottom edge of the phone band if you're into phone or one of the
> > subbands depending on your license.
> >
> > Anyway, once the band edges are programmed in, I go into memory mode
> > and press one of the 10 buttons to make that the active memory and then
> > go back into vfo mode again.  Now, wnenever I press the bottom left
> > button of the memory/vfo buttons, the vfo is set immediately to the
> > lower band edge of the band I want.
> >
> > It's been so long since I set this up, I'd really have to look to
> > remember exactly how to enter the freqs into memory.
> >
> > I only use one bank of memories so remembering where my preset band
> > edges isnt a problem.
> >
> > Maybe someone like John Miller will come along and give a much better
> > explanation for the 940 as I tend to be a "set it and forget it"
> > operator when it comes to using the memories.
> >
> > The 940 is a nice rig!
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Don W6SMB

Bud Schwab
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Malibu, California