FT-950

Operating Manual

Contest Number (“Countup”) feature.

Example 2: 599 10 200 # K (15 characters)

Storing a Message into Memory

1.Press the [MENU] button to enter the Menu mode.

2.Rotate the [SELECT] knob to select the CW Memory Register into which you wish to store the message; for now, we are just selecting the message entry technique (Keyer entry).

019 KEY CW MEM1

020 KEY CW MEM2

021 KEY CW MEM3

022 KEY CW MEM4

023 KEY CW MEM5

Advice: Press the [SELECT] knob to toggle the Menu item display between “Menu Item Number & Group Name” and “Menu Function”.

3.Rotate the [CLAR/VFO-B] knob to set the selected CW Memory Register to “tyP1.” If you want to text message entry on all memories, set all five Menu items (#019 ~ 023) to “tyP1.”

4.Press and hold in the [MENU] button for two seconds to save the new settings and exit.

Text Message Programming

1.Press the [CW] button to set the operating mode to CW.

2.Be sure that the Break-in is “Off” by pressing the [BK-IN] button, if necessary.

3.Press and hold the [SELECT] knob for two seconds to activate the Contest Memory Keyer. Indicates one of following indication in Multi-Display Window on the display; “rEC1”, “rEC2”, “rEC3”, “rEC4”, “rEC5”, “PLY1”, “PLY2”, “PLY3”, “PLY4”, and “PLY5”.

4.Rotate the [SELECT] knob to select the Memory Register (“rEC1” through “rEC5”) which you wish to program the text.

5.Press the [SELECT] knob. A “REC” icon will appear in the display.

6.Use the Main Tuning Dial knob to set the cursor position and use the [CLAR/VFO-B] knob to choose the letter/number to be programmed in each slot of the memory. In the case of the second example above, the “#” character designates the slot where the Contest Number will appear.

7.When the message is complete, add the “}” character at the end to signify the

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Vertex Standard FT-950 manual KEY CW MEM1 KEY CW MEM2 KEY CW MEM3 KEY CW MEM4 KEY CW MEM5