the channel button is your friend for knoing if you are in memory mode. it 
is easy if you only have a few memories.  This sounds imitating at first, 
and it is easy to get lost if you are wrong.
pres 1 to go to memory mode
2. press the channel button
3. up arrow (buttom right button on the radio until the radio goes silent)
4. press and hold the lock button.
5. ut102 will say "clear"
6. press channel
7. press 1.
8 now back in bfo mode.
Roy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: ic-718


    Butch:

You are correct on not knowing when the processor is on or off, and also on
not knowing whether you are in memory or VFO mode.

For that reason, I mainly stuck to using VFO mode, and kept things like
emergency frequencies, and WWV, in the memories for reference.

Still and all, I think it is a great little radio, and you will love it once
you get it up and running.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: ic-718


> Thanks, Tom.  I've figured out a good bit, I grabbed everything
> icanworkthisthing.com had.  I'm going to a e s this afternoon to get a
> synthesizer, and hopefully they can install it and set up the menu or set
> as icom calls it.  I may also get an autotuner.  There a couple things,
> first, I don't think there is a way to tell if the processor is on.
> Second, I'm finding it hard to tell if I'm in memory or vfo mode. In
> memory mode, you can hit the channel button and then enter and a memory
> number and then enter to go to that number.  The problem is the vfo knob
> still changes frequency even when in memory mode.  In some ways I'd rather
> have a 480, but this radio is smaller and it is the first time I've won
> anything!!  I'll know more once I get it talking.
> 73
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
> open Node 3148
> Las Vegas
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Tom Behler wrote:
>
>>    Colin and all:
>>
>> I've been reading this discussion about the IC718 with interest, but have
>> not been keeping up with specifics as well as I should be.
>>
>> First of all, congratulations, Butch!!!
>>
>> That reminds me of the time I went to Dayton in 2002 and came away with a
>> THF6A.  Not quite as good of a prize as the 718, but I still use that
>> THF6
>> to this day!
>>
>> I did indeed have an IC718 for about 4 or 5 years, and actually loved
>> that
>> little radio.  Sold it to someone, though, to get funds for one of my
>> Kenwood TS480's.
>>
>> Basically, you can't go wrong with the 718.  It is an excellent
>> radio--not
>> top of the line, but nowhere near the bottom either!
>>
>> I would have kept mine, if I had had enough money for one of the TS480's
>> I
>> wanted at the time.
>>
>> For Butch, I am not sure what kind of documentation you have, or what
>> questions you need answers to, but feel free to tap into my wisdom, and
>> I'll
>> try the best I can to help.
>>
>> From what I remember, I did need sighted assistance to do some of the
>> set-up
>> functions, but after that, and once I had the UT102 voice chip installed,
>> the rig actually became very accessible.
>>
>> I can look around later tonight if you'd like for any documentation I
>> might
>> still have, so let me know if you want it, and I'll try to send it along
>> if
>> I can find it.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: ic-718
>>
>>
>>> i'm fairly sure tom had one of those IC718's as well.
>>> i'm sure he can give some tips on how to use it.
>>> likely same user interface as all the icom HF rigs.
>>> which is very similar to kenwood, with slight variations on function
>>> sequences and so on.
>>> like cars, they all have a steerring wheel, four wheels, and an
>>> engine...the
>>> rest are just slight variations on the same general theem hi.
>>>
>>> 73
>>> Colin, V A6BKX
>>
>>
>