I am out of lick. Ordered on May 10, payment processed May 12. No tracking. And even worse - it has disappeared from my "web orders". What is going on, HRO??

Hello All,

For those waiting for the TX-500, I just got notice from HRO that one I have had on backorder for about 3 weeks has been shipped this afternoon.? So they apparently are in the States.
Looking forward to receiving the thing.

Alan
N5AGY

I finally figured out my problem with setting up iambic key in the menu. Under CW Speed I set it to 15. Not knowing that this number doesn't correspond to our wpm. When I adjusted CW Speed up to 75 the iambic key is working properly now.

Thanks & 73.

John W9QP

Hi Steve,

Each of my iambic keys have their own cable with stereo plug. Possibly the cable provided with the LAB599 may be the problem?

John W9QP

Hi Everyone,

Having a little issue with changing from straight key to iambic in the menu. My straight key works when in straight key mode, when switching to iambic and plugging my iambic key it doesn’t work. I tried all 3 of my iambic keys and none will work.?

Is there a setting to turn the keyer on or are all the connectors on my iambic keys wired incorrectly?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.?

Thanks and 73.

John W9QP

To monitor your ALC level

Use the bottom left or right most button under the screen to scroll through the menu options till you see 'METR' in the top right of the screen.

push the button for 'METR' (top left most button above the screen)

spin the vfo left and right till you see ALC on the bottom / middle of the screen.

transmit and the meter bar should display the ALC response to your signal, adjust computer speaker volume as needed

hope that helps!

w3qp

I would like to use my TX500 as receiver for 630M band signals (around 470 kHz), however, the current band assignments (for receive) cut off at 500 kHz. This would of course require appropriate amount of gain in the receive path and such, but given that the radio does receive in US AM broadcast band, it seems possible to me from an RF (if not firmware) point of view.

I e-mailed support@... this question, and Ogdep replied:

"Hello Dave,

The band range is set according to the requirements for amateur radio equipment for the respective region (US / EU). Compliance with the region is set during production at the factory. Unfortunately, we cannot remotely change the transceiver region and band range accordingly.

73,
Lab599 team"

I am not familiar with US regulations that would dictate RECEIVE capability (at least in the US I think portions of the old analog cell band are precluded, but I've heard of nothing else.) I'm not familiar with any such regulations in EU or elsewhere but I imagine they exist.

If the band limits are in firmware that can be updated, I should think that this request would be technically possible to accommodate at some level (if not precluded by policy decision). If the band limits are stored elsewhere, then this suggests that no future changes to band limits (to accommodate some future regulatory change, such as further revision to band limits), nor changing band limits for a radio that is individually shipped internationally (where other band limits would exist), could be accommodated. This seems like it would be a future concern.

At this point, I am just curious if there is more insight possible, and a follow-up question to Ogdep has not been answered, at least at this point.

Thanks very much for any thoughts,

Dave