HI Steve,
I know what you mean. I'm generally very impressed by the thoughtful design
and implementation of the speech output, but I find myself wishing it were
configurable, too. My biggest wishes are:
-- Combine voice option 201 and 202 (or is it 200 and 201?), so that, by
default, PFB reads the S-meter on receive, and the lower meter (ALC, SWR) on
transmit.
-- Add an option so that VGS-1 could reade the XIT offset instead of the
transmit frequency when XIT is enabled.
-- Modify speech output so that increasing the speech rate does not increase
the foice pitch.
Just in case you haven't tried it...even if the VGS-1 is off, pressing PFA
after pressing the TX Power button will tell you your power output setting.
And, of course, if you are using a Kenwood microphone, you can program the
PF keys there, too.
--Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Steve Dresser
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:46 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: some question on TS590 carrier settings and meter function
switch
Doug,
Much as I hate to hear the constant frequency announcements, there are other
things I like to hear, such as power announcement when I press that button.
I wish there were a way to customize which items are announced, but alas,
nothing is perfect. I also wish there were more than two PF keys because
I'd like to use some of the other functions without having to change menus.
A partial solution for this is to use the A and B menus with the PF keys
defined differently in each. In my A menu, the keys are set to their
defaults. In the B menu, I set PF1 to Tune so that it keys the transmitter
with a low power (15 watts). PF2 is set to Voice3, which reads the lower
half of the meter display when the transmitter is keyed. In a perfect
world, I'd like to have a C, D, and maybe even an E setting for other menu
configurations, which is what I thought the Quick Menu would do until I
tried it. I guess that's the trouble: the more options you have, the more
you want.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Payne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 12:28
Subject: Re: some question on TS590 carrier settings and meter function
switch
> 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
>>
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