Steve:

Your procedure for voice recording CQ's worked great!!!!!!!

It's amazing. ...   I don't remember reading that kind of instruction in the 
manual.

The other thing too that I was doing wrong was pressing the PTT on the mic. 
Obviously, you don't have to do that when you are creating your recording.

So, I'm continuing to learn here.

Now, it's to lunch, and then the contest.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: recording cq contest voice message on TS480


> Tom,
>
> Press the key you want to use for recording (the 1, for example) until you
> hear "BT" in CW.  Then, let go of the button.  Then press it again and 
> speak
> into the mic while holding the button down.  When you're finished, let go 
> of
> the button.  You will hear a low beep.  Wait a few seconds while your
> recording is stored.  Then, press the button again and listen to your 
> golden
> tones.  Incidentally, you can set the repeat interval for playback with 
> Menu
> 32.  Let me know how this works.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 21:42
> Subject: recording cq contest voice message on TS480
>
>
>> Hi, folks.
>>
>> Well, after about a half hour of playing around here, doing what I think
>> the
>> manual tells me to do, I can't seem to get the voice recorder to work for
>> CQ
>> contest messages in SSB.
>>
>> I am in SSB mode, and have tried recording a message by pushing the "1"
>> key
>> in, until I hear the CW BT, and then speaking.
>>
>> But, I seem to get nothing back.
>>
>> From the manual, it seems as though you can record your message, and
>> either
>> play it back for you to hear, or transmit it over the air.
>>
>> Can anyone give me a step-by-step tutorial on how to do this?
>>
>> It's a really cool feature of the TS480 that I'd like to try in the NAQP
>> tomorrow.
>>
>> 73 from a somewhat frustrated Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>