Steve, I obviously missed something. Where is the schematic for this little
gadget you built that gives you several additional programmable function
buttons for your TS-2000 or TS-590? I would like to build one myself.
Ron, K8HSY
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Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:18 PM
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Subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built a project from QST?
Yes. Grounding each pin direct gives the regular up and down functions.
Grounding each pin through the resistors gives the PF key functions.
I put 6 switches on my box. 4 go to ground via the resistors, emulating the
extra pf keys, and the other 2 go direct giving the up and down
functions. I usually have the menus set on these last 2 to emulate
pf keys and use them for quick memory in and quick memory recall.
73, Steve KW3A
On 10/22/2014 2:03 PM, Butch Bussen wrote:
> I'm not sure I remember, but grounding up or down direct is one
> function, and then through the 22k another and the 100 k another
> function. Do I have that right?
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Steve Forst wrote:
>
>> I don't have any real skill, but just took my time, and I was lucky
>> enough to have everything I needed laying around, so if it failed,
>> no big deal.
>>
>>
>> Originally (in the 2000 literature) the values were 2 each of 100k
>> and
>> 47 k ohms. In the 590's In Depth Manual, it was 2 each of 100k and
>> 22k ohms.
>>
>> Not sure why the change, but I used 22k and it works on both the 590
>> and 2000.
>>
>> Since the whole thing is based on grounding 2 microphone pins through
>> a higher or lower resistance to get a particular action, Perhaps it
>> is just that the spread between the 2 sets of values is greater with
100k
>> and 22k.
>>
>> 73, Steve KW3A
>>
>>
>> On 10/22/2014 11:24 AM, Butch Bussen wrote:
>>> I wish I had the skill to build such a box. Do you recall value for
>>> the resisters?
>>> 73
>>> Butch
>>> WA0VJR
>>> Node 3148
>>> Wallace, ks.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Steve Forst wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mike,
>>>>
>>>> Not from QST, but if you are in tinkering mode, an external box with
>>>> extra pf keys is nice to have for the 590. Colin from this list had
>>>> built one for his TS-2000 maybe 10 years ago, and I did one about
>>>> a year and a half ago. Since both use the 8 pin round mic
>>>> connector, it is interchangeable between the 2 radios.
>>>>
>>>> While the 590 has 2 pf keys on it, it is always nice to have more.
>>>> When you set up the pf keys to give voice announcements in TX like
>>>> swr, comp, and alc, it kind of uses up the 2 keys.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A couple of momentary push button switches, microphone in and out,
>>>> and some resistors, and you are in business.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, if you have a mic with up/down buttons (even the stock hand
>>>> mic) and can do without the up/down function, the 590 lets you
>>>> reassign them to act as pf keys.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck with the new radio.
>>>>
>>>> 73, Steve KW3A
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/21/2014 6:56 PM, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
>>>>> I'm just curious.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have applied a few of the Hints and Kinks through the years, and
>>>>> I own a Tuna Tin 2 that someone else built.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, I have just recently bought the steel tape measure in
>>>>> order to build the vertical from the August, 2014 issue.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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