Yup, it's a little scary when that happens. Fortunately, it's fairly easy to
rescue yourself, assuming the PFA key is set to the default setting. As you
probably already know, even if the BGS-1 is turned off, pressing PFA will
still red the frequency when pressed. Well, it will also read the current
menu number and value if you press it while in the menu system. So, to fix
this, press the menu key, press PFA, and note where you are. Then rotate the
multi-function key the correct number of clicks, using the PFA key to verify
your location. You are looking for menu 09. Once you are there, press the up
arrow key. VGS-1 will say "on". Then press the menu key to save and exit.

Now that I am familiar with the rig, I leave the VGS-1 turned off most of
the time. I get tired of having the frequency automatically announced
whenever I change bands or enable split.

I haven't tried it, but you could probably place menu 09 in the quick menu
for easier access, should you ever end up with no speech by mistake.

--Doug,AC7t

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Tom Behler
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 7:42 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: some question on TS590 carrier settings and meter function
switch

    Ed:

A similar thing happened to me once right after I got my TS590.

I too was doing something in the menus, and managed to shut the VGS1 off, so
had no speech.

Thank the lord for the XYL!!!!

They usually get us out of trouble, don't they!  (grin)


73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Malmgren" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 10:41 PM
Subject: Fw: some question on TS590 carrier settings and meter function
switch


>    Curtis, I have pulled that stunt also.
> One dandy boo boo I did the   other day was in the menus where I got the
> setting on Speaking Japanese and pushed a wrong button and then I 
> could not understand what the hell was going , I tried a quick lesson 
> on that language but failed so had to have my X Y L read the window 
> which thank goodness was
> in English.  I'm applying for my novice ticket again hi.73  Ed   K7UC
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Curtis Delzer" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 7:41 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 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
>