Recording Messages, Message Playback

12 OPERATOR CONVENIENCES

DRU-3A DIGITAL RECORDING UNIT (OPTIONAL)

The optional DRU-3A unit allows you to record a voice message on up to 3 channels. After recording a message via your transceiver microphone, you can then send that message.

The maximum recording time for each channel is as follows:

Channel 1: Approx. 30 sec

Channel 2: Approx. 15 sec

Channel 3: Approx. 15 sec

The DRU-3A is useful in many situations:

•DX chasing or contest operation where repeated calls are necessary for extended periods of time

•Checking interference complaints to other equipment (lets you be in two places at one time)

•Checking or adjusting your transmit signal or your antenna(s) if it’s not convenient to be sitting in front of your microphone

•Helping a friend adjust his antenna or receive when he needs repeated test transmissions from you

For information on how to install the DRU-3A unit, refer to “INSTALLING OPTIONS” {page 57}.

RECORDING MESSAGES

This section explains how to record a single message.

1Select SSB, FM, or AM.

•Use the same mode for transmitting and receiving.

2If VOX is ON, press [VOX] to switch the function OFF.

3Press [REC] to enter the Record Standby mode.

• “AP –” appears.

•To exit the Record Standby mode and quit recording your message, press [CLR].

4Press and hold down [CH 1], [CH 2], or [CH 3] and begin speaking into your microphone.

•There are three channels for recording messages. Press the button that corresponds to the channel that you want to use.

5Release the button pressed in step 4 when you have finished recording your message.

•Also when the maximum recording time passes, recording stops.

•The content of the channel is overwritten with the new message.

6To record a message in another channel, start with step 3.

Note:

◆To erase a message, press and hold the desired channel button, and press [CLR].

◆Pressing the [] (POWER) switch cancels recording in progress and clears the memory channel.

MESSAGE PLAYBACK

You can play back the message in channel 1, 2, or 3 to check or to send. It is also possible to make a longer linked message, by consecutively playing back the messages of more than one channel.

You can even send a longer linked message repeatedly by using the Repeat function. To switch this function ON, access Menu No. 23 and select ON. The default is OFF.

Note:

◆Pressing the [] (POWER) switch cancels playback in progress.

◆The settings in Menu No. 23 and No. 24 are shared with CW Message Playback described in “CW MESSAGE MEMORY” {page 35}.

■Checking Messages

1 Select SSB, FM, or AM.

•Use the same mode for transmitting and receiving.

2If VOX is ON, press [VOX] to switch the function OFF.

3Press [CH 1], [CH 2], or [CH 3], depending on which channel you want to check.

•For example, “AP 1– –” appears while playing back the message in channel 1.

•To interrupt playback, press [CLR].

4To play back another message in sequence, press the corresponding [CH 1], [CH 2], or [CH3] while playing back the first message.

•Up to three channels can be queued at the same time.