Steve, I obviously missed something. Where is the schematic for this little
gadget you built that gives you several additional programmable function
buttons for your TS-2000 or TS-590? I would like to build one myself. 

Ron, K8HSY



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Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:18 PM
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Subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built a project from QST?

Yes.  Grounding each pin direct gives the regular up and down functions. 
  Grounding each pin through  the resistors gives the PF key functions.

I put 6 switches on my box.  4 go to ground via the resistors, emulating the
extra pf keys, and the other 2 go direct giving the up and down 
functions.    I usually have the menus set on these last 2 to  emulate 
pf keys and use them for quick memory in and quick memory  recall.

73, Steve KW3A

On 10/22/2014 2:03 PM, Butch Bussen wrote:
> I'm not sure I remember, but grounding up or down direct is one 
> function, and then through the 22k another and the 100 k another 
> function.  Do I have that right?
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Steve Forst wrote:
>
>> I don't have any real skill, but just took my time, and I was lucky 
>> enough to have everything I needed laying around,  so if it failed, 
>> no big deal.
>>
>>
>> Originally (in the 2000 literature) the values were 2  each of 100k 
>> and
>> 47 k ohms.  In the 590's In Depth Manual, it was 2 each of 100k and 
>> 22k ohms.
>>
>> Not sure why the change, but I used 22k and it works on both the 590 
>> and 2000.
>>
>> Since the whole thing is based on grounding 2 microphone pins through 
>> a higher or lower resistance to get a particular action, Perhaps it 
>> is just that the spread between the 2 sets of values is greater  with
100k
>>   and 22k.
>>
>> 73, Steve KW3A
>>
>>
>> On 10/22/2014 11:24 AM, Butch Bussen wrote:
>>> I wish I had the skill to build such a box.  Do you recall value for 
>>> the resisters?
>>> 73
>>> Butch
>>> WA0VJR
>>> Node 3148
>>> Wallace, ks.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Steve Forst wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mike,
>>>>
>>>> Not from QST, but if you are in tinkering mode, an external box with
>>>> extra pf keys  is nice to have for the 590.    Colin from this list had
>>>> built one for his TS-2000  maybe 10 years ago, and I  did one about 
>>>> a year and a half ago.  Since both use the 8 pin round mic 
>>>> connector, it is interchangeable between the 2 radios.
>>>>
>>>> While the 590 has 2 pf keys on it, it is always nice to have more.  
>>>> When you set up the pf keys to give voice announcements  in TX like 
>>>> swr, comp, and alc, it kind of uses up the 2 keys.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A couple of momentary push button switches, microphone in and out, 
>>>> and some resistors, and you are in business.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, if you have a mic with up/down buttons (even the stock hand 
>>>> mic) and can do without the up/down function, the 590 lets you 
>>>> reassign them to act as pf keys.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck with the new radio.
>>>>
>>>> 73, Steve KW3A
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/21/2014 6:56 PM, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
>>>>> I'm just curious.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have applied a few of the Hints and Kinks through the years, and 
>>>>> I own a Tuna Tin 2 that someone else built.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, I have just recently bought the steel tape measure in 
>>>>> order to build the vertical from the August, 2014 issue.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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