Yup, Curtis, I made that mistake once too.

We just have to be sure we don't depress that switch too much when changing 
meter functions.

73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curtis Delzer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 9:41 PM
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
>