Kenwood manual Tips, TS-480 menus

Tips

As with other Kenwood HF transceivers, the TS-480 provides menu access to its many features. By selecting and adjusting these features, you can customize the TS-480 so that it fits perfectly into your way of operating a radio. Introduced here are tips on how to get the most out of the various items listed in the menus.

●TS-480 menus

Group	#	Function	Use
Operator	00	Brightness of display	You can adjust brightness to suit the
interface		backlighting	ambient lighting level. Turning
			backlighting off reduces power
		(5 levels, including OFF)
			consumption by about 30mA.
	01	Key illumination ON/OFF	Turning illumination off reduces power
			consumption by about 30mA.
Tuning	02	Auto mode	Mode can be changed automatically
			depending on frequency. This is more
			convenient than setting VFO A to CW
			and VFO B to USB.
	03	Tuning control adjustment	By reducing the adjustment rate, you
		rate	can make it easier to tune.
	04	Frequency step for the main	You can change frequency with the
		encoder in FM mode	main encoder in the same way that
			you can change channels.
	05	Frequency rounding for the	With this switched OFF, if you
		MULTI control	accidentally change frequency with the
			MULTI control, you can return to the
			original frequency.
	06	Frequency step size for BC	When ON, frequency step size is
		band	9kHz. When OFF, step size is
			determined by the STEP value. The
			factory setting for US models is OFF;
			for other markets ON is the default.
Memory	07	Temporarily change memory	Switch ON to operate a frequency in
channels		frequency	memory without transferring it to a
			VFO.
Scan	08	Program slow scan	Useful for 50MHz scanning.
functions
	09	Program slow scan setting	You can choose how much to slow the
			scan.
	10	Program scan hold	You can pause the scan for 5 seconds,
			a handy way to avoid missing a signal.
	11	Scan resume method	You can switch between time-operated
			and carrier-operated scan resume to
			suit your purpose.
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