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- Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
- From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew)
- Subject: Addtional feature on Yaesu FT-5100 found: adjustable timeout
- Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
- Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1993 17:01:32 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- I discovered by accidental application of fat finger: if the
- high/low button is held while turning on power, that transmitter
- time-out may be set. If you do this, the left VFO display will
- show some number between 00 and 60. The factory default appears to
- be 15. The number can be changed by rotating the frequency knob.
-
- I tried an experiment, setting the number to 01. I keyed up into a
- dummy load. After one minute, the transmitter shut off with, "Err"
- displayed in the VFO.
-
- I'll leave it up to you to decide a use for this feature. If
- you're an O.F. from HF that can't seem to break the habbit of
- timing out repeaters, you could set your own time-out.
-
- What would be neat would be to have a way to adjust RF power level
- in a similar fashion, but examining the schematic diagram, it looks
- like only two power levels are possible.
-
- By the way, the technical manual for the 5100 is finally available.
- The information is pretty spare. No additonal operating notes or
- hidden secrets are revealed. It is worthwile for the alignment
- notes and complete parts list. Call the number in your owners
- manual to order.
-
- 73,
- Bill
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