AA6YQ comments below
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From: dxlab@... [mailto:dxlab@...]On Behalf Of John
Bastin
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 2:38 PM
To: dxlab@...
Subject: Re: [dxlab] SC and WW Questions
On Sep 6, 2009, at 14:18:06, Jim Besancon wrote:
One WW Question:
1- My radio (FT1000D) has two memories per band for the main VFO. I
generally keep one memory in the CW portion and the other in the RTTY
portion of any given band. Now using 20M as an example, one memory is
14025 CW and the other is 14085 FSK RTTY. The question/problem is
when I see
a RTTY spot, I switch to the RTTY memory and listen for the
station. If
the station is heard, I set the mode on the radio to LSB (AFSK
RTTY) and
then click the RTTY mode button in WW. At this point, WW sets both
memories
to the RTTY LSB frequency, there by destroying my ability to quickly
go back
to CW. Is there a set up or button pushing sequence that will just
set
WW to RTTY, open up the RTTY screen and do nothing with the memories
on the
radio?
My experience with my FT1000MP (same setup, two memories per band) is
that computer frequency control pretty much hoses any attempt to use
the buttons for specific band areas (CW - RTTY, CW - SSB, etc.). When
you set the radio frequency with the computer, it seems to set all the
information on the current button selection, messing up your choices
for using the button to change portions of the band, mode, etc.
I've pretty much given up using the buttons in any meaningful way to
do something like this to save permanent settings. I just use the
computer, click on spots and work the stations using whichever VFO
button selection I happen to be on at the time.
Commander provides 10 banks of 10 memories, so you can set up permanent
settings in a transceiver-independent fashion that will not be modified when
you double-click a spot database entry or bandspread entry.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
