15 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 seconds

Channel 2: Approx. 15 seconds

Channel 3: Approx. 15 seconds

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 with 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/her antenna or receive when he/she needs repeated test transmissions.

For information on how to install the DRU-3A unit, refer to “INSTALLING OPTIONS” {page 97}.

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/ LEVEL] to switch the function OFF.

3Press [FUNC], [1/ CH1/REC] to record the message for channel 1.

•“Á REC WAIT” and “AP1 –” appear.

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

4Press and hold [1/ CH1/REC], then begin speaking into your microphone.

•Three channels are available for recording messages. Press channel key [2/ CH2/REC] or [3/ CH3/REC] in place of [1/ CH1/REC], in step 3, to record the message on a different channel.

5Release the key 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.

6Repeat steps 3 to 5 to record a message on another channel.

Note: Pressing [] (POWER) 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 message, by consecutively playing back the messages of more than one channel, linking them together.

You can even repeatedly send a longer, linked message by using the Repeat function. To switch this function ON, access Menu No. 29A and select ON (Default is OFF). Then, select the repeat interval time in Menu No. 29B (Default is 10 seconds).

Note:

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

◆The settings in Menu Nos. 29A and No. 29B are shared with CW Message Playback described in “CW MESSAGE MEMORY” {page 43}.

■Checking Messages

1Select SSB, FM, or AM.

•Use the same mode for transmitting and receiving.

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

3Press [1/ CH1/REC], [2/ CH2/REC], or

[3/ CH3/REC], depending on which channel you want to check.

•For example, “s PLAY BACK” and “AP 1– –” appear while playing back the message in channel 1.

•To interrupt playback, press [CLR].

4To play back another message in sequence, press the corresponding key ([1/ CH1/REC], [2/ CH2/REC], or [3/ CH3/REC]) while the first message is being played.

•Up to three channels can be queued.

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