FT-950
Operating Manual
The
If you press the [BAND] button (imbedded LED will glow orange) located in the left of the
If you press the [MHz] button (imbedded LED will glow orange) located in the left of the
7.Press the [ANT
Advice: Once you have made your antenna selection, that antenna is “remembered” by the microprocessor in conjunction with the VFO register in use when you chose that particular antenna.
8.Press the appropriate [MODE] button to select the desired operating mode. Pressing the [SSB] button toggles the LSB and USB mode, and also pressing the [SSB] button toggles the AM and FM mode.
Advice:
By convention in the Amateur bands, LSB is used on the 7 MHz and lower bands (with the exception of 60 meters), while USB is utilized on the 14 MHz and higher bands.
When changing modes from SSB to CW, you will observe a frequency shift on the display. This shift represents the BFO offset between the “zero beat” frequency and the audible CW pitch (tone) you can hear (the pitch is programmed via the Menu item “045 A1A PITCH”), even though the actual tone that you hear is not changing. If you do not want this frequency shift to appear when changing modes from (for example) USB to CW, use the Menu item “047 A1A FRQDISP,” described on page ??.
When operating on the FM mode, rotate the [SQL] (Squelch) knob clockwise to the point where the background noise is just silenced. This is the point of maximum sensitivity to weak signals. Excessive advancement of the [SQL]
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