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Re: Before I reinvent the wheel
开云体育I believe Yaesu calls that the Owner's Manual?! ?Actually, I think in the Files section there are guides people have put together, either in this group or the other FT-60 group. There are also the Nifty guides that are available.? Jardy Dawson WA7JRD Sent from the Death Star for Darth Vader's eyes only. Any other reception will be severely punished. ? On Sep 25, 2016, at 09:52, WN6WJN - - Wassim wn6wjn@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote:
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Before I reinvent the wheel
Hey All
Has anyone put together a list of all the menu items of the radio, what you see on the screen, what the menu item means, what it controls, what default value it has, what values it could have? If this exist can you point me to it, and if it does not then I shall start this project because I think it's a worthwhile handy educational and training tool. 73 Wassim WN6WJN |
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Re: Air Band
If you are looking to listen to the military aircraft look at radio reference we site. ?I searched for Blue Angels frequencies and a large list popped up.
There are normally list of air show frequencies in magazine on communications.?
As for the civilian flight teams, as mentioned before check the listings for the local airports.?
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Jim Bassett,?
W1RO-ARRL Nevada Section Traffic Manager, Life Member
gobig.Isagenix.com
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Re: Air Bands
MI0JZZ mclelland
开云体育tnx neil for the reply and help
chris.......mi0jzz From: FT-60@... on behalf of Neil Slater celticclutter@... [FT-60]
Sent: 04 September 2016 05:31 To: FT-60@... Subject: [FT-60] Re: Air Bands ?
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Re: Air Bands
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It would be easiest if you can find the frequencies the airport/air show uses, and save those as a group in one of the ten banks the FT-60 has available. Then you just have to scan the bank and those particular frequencies. That would save time scanning unused frequencies, and let you hear more of the action. Google listed almost a dozen frequencies used at CYQR, my local airport. "Private" frequencies for Air Canada, and smaller companies at the airport, plus the Arrival, Departure, and Ground frequencies were easy to find. There are also NavCanada frequencies in use here, as well as Shell's fuelling state, and the airport fire frequencies (with the signal I get from the Fire radios, I can only assume they are putting out LOTS of power.) Phrasing the search terms differently gave some very interesting hits. Enjoy the show, and those awesome Red Arrows! Neil VA5SCA Regina, Canada Saving frequencies is one of the easier tasks in this marvellous radio. Even I can do it. :) You may refer to the manual (the PDF version in my iPad is usually faster to find than the paper manual that came with the radio); you'll especially want to visit pages 28, 33, and 35. Sent with the assistance of Morse Code, slide rule, and abacus. On Sep 3, 2016, at 03:23, FT-60@... wrote: 1. air bands |
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Re: air bands
Why? Aircraft band channels are 25kHz apart. Al AB2ZY ---In FT-60@..., <mi0jzz@...> wrote : hi group how can I scan from 108.to 137 air band?? we have a air show on this weekend with red arrows and the like. on page 80 of manual it states 108 to 137 am and in steps of 25khz can this step be brought down to around 5khz?? any help would be great tnx in advance chris......mi0jzz |
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Re: Ft60 problem
I sent my unit back to the factory to have an intermittent speaker problem repaired, and I also went over the squelch issue with them and asked them to look into it.? When I got the unit back, the speaker issue was fixed, but not the squelch issue.? I decided to wait a while before sending it back to see if it was interference, wifi, etc., but no matter where I use my unit, I end up putting the squelch to max to prevent the annoying static and noise I get on 70cm mostly, but also on 144.? It is so annoying that I now rarely use the FT-60 and instead use my Baofeng.? The mention of a varactor problem by KC0OEB?(after all this time) has peaked my interest, so I am going to send it back to Yaesu and see if they will try again to get this repaired.? Otherwise it is the junk heap, and I will try another brand HT.
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Re: No Tx,unless just off the charger
开云体育Yep,So I found out. Lead acid type .,i have seen,but Ni-MH ?? First for everything !1 TKS,jerry W8KQ On 8/22/2016 10:13 AM, John Eroh
ssgeroh@... [FT-60] wrote:
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Re: No Tx,unless just off the charger
The voltage of a battery may read fine but if the battery doesn't have the current capacity anymore it won't work. Found that out when working for a small company that repaired test equipment for the telephone industry. We got into the habit of replacing all batteries automatically? & we cut down our return rate on repairs. A piece of gear may have worked fine for us in the shop but the battery would not hold up out in the field. 73, John N4SME On Sunday, August 21, 2016 9:51 PM, "gerald bishop gsbishop@... [FT-60]" wrote:
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Hi- Old Fart thinking ???? Radio always worked. Org,tho. Borrowed
a batt, that was unkown- and that works ok,after being off
charger. What i get for believing the volt meter on the radio HI
T.C. jerry W8KQ
On 8/20/2016 10:20 PM, WN6WJN - -
Wassim wn6wjn@... [FT-60] wrote:
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Re: No Tx,unless just off the charger
开云体育Hi- Old Fart thinking ???? Radio always worked. Org,tho. Borrowed
a batt, that was unkown- and that works ok,after being off
charger. What i get for believing the volt meter on the radio HI
T.C. jerry W8KQ On 8/20/2016 10:20 PM, WN6WJN - -
Wassim wn6wjn@... [FT-60] wrote:
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Re: No Tx,unless just off the charger
开云体育Sorry Jerry I miss understood your post. You mean the battery is being discharged EXTREMELY QUICKLY IN SECONDS? Is there a short? Is the battery old? Is the battery normal temperature? What are you using to charge the battery? 73 WN6WJN |
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Re: No Tx,unless just off the charger
开云体育Hey Jerry Before we panic, give the battery a full charge and try again. As you know the transmitter needs a certain voltage, like something more than 6.9V, to be delivered to it before it can function. Anything less and it will shut down. Now losing memory settings, that is a different thing but, in a way, it also can be related to a low battery. So let's get this battery juiced up and topped up and let's test again. It also could be a failing battery, so that should tell us. 73 WN6WJN |
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Re: unable to change frequencies
开云体育Hello godly_mistle Has your friend reported any progress on this issue We "I" are sitting on pins and needles to see what the culprit was. Please don't keep us hanging. And I hope your friend enjoyed the trip to Spain, here in San Francisco, we have a huge community of paraglider, because we are open to winds from the ocean. 73, and please report back any news, positive or negative. We are all hear to learn, and this one stumped most of us so it is a good example to learn from. WN6WJN |
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Re: No Tx,unless just off the charger
开云体育? HI- Guess I'll have to answer this my self- Battery shows 8.2
off the charger and 7.4 after trying to tx- So,got the volt meter
out and while checkinng on ht back ports,drops to 2.2 volts.
Borrowed a battery to try and not sure how good the battery is,Now
will tx fine buz. SGuess you can't believe what you see HI ,TKS,
73 Jerry W8KQ On 8/19/2016 5:09 PM,
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No Tx,unless just off the charger
Hi,All- Problem I haven't seen before. Started at a repeater site,where the main is a TV station TX site. Ft 60 wasn't up to full charge,and not sure if RF had anything to do with this,or not. Can only tx ,from right off the charger. Hour later,it says no freqs,or something like that. Not sure if it is simple ,or more involved. Had something like this happen to a ft2600,which was plugged into the lighter in the car,while car was off. 1 sec and the mems were gone. Reloaded off the computer,when I got home and was ok ?? Any thoughts ?? TKS,en73 ,Jerry W8KQ
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Re: unable to change frequencies
开云体育Call Yaesu Tech and see what they say. ?May need to send for repair. Jardy Dawson WA7JRD Ham Radio On Aug 8, 2016, at 19:46, WN6WJN - - Wassim wn6wjn@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote:
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Hey godly_mistle "A friend of mine who is out in Spain paragliding" Has your friend landed? I do not advise repairing a radio in flight ? It sounds to me that maybe the keypad has gone bad? Do any of the keys function?? Can he use some instrument like a pencil to make sure the keys are being pressed and that they are making contact to the internal assembly? What was he/she doing before/after this happened? It states that a factory reset did not clear the issue, but how about removing the battery and any power source for a while and see if any short clears it self. I don't know what is really happening its a bizarre behavior to say the least, but maybe some capacitor is overloaded and malfunctioning?! Ask and come back to us with theses answers. Oh and is this altitude related or is it happening on the ground to? 73 WN6WJN |
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Re: unable to change frequencies
开云体育Hey godly_mistle "A friend of mine who is out in Spain paragliding" Has your friend landed? I do not advise repairing a radio in flight ? It sounds to me that maybe the keypad has gone bad? Do any of the keys function?? Can he use some instrument like a pencil to make sure the keys are being pressed and that they are making contact to the internal assembly? What was he/she doing before/after this happened? It states that a factory reset did not clear the issue, but how about removing the battery and any power source for a while and see if any short clears it self. I don't know what is really happening its a bizarre behavior to say the least, but maybe some capacitor is overloaded and malfunctioning?! Ask and come back to us with theses answers. Oh and is this altitude related or is it happening on the ground to? 73 WN6WJN |