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Keyboard locking?

 

Today I have my FT-8900 set up as a cross band repeater.? This allows me to use my FT-60 on 146.520 transmitting with 50 watts.

Unfortunately, I have bumped into some things around the house and pressed buttons on the keypad.? I also have an FT-70 that I use for C4FM operations.? The '70 has an easy-to-activate keyboard lock to avoid changing the radio settings unintentionally.? I don't see anything on the FT-60 that's similar.

Does anyone have trouble with accidental key presses?? How do you deal with it?

Jim? N4FAF
 

Key 6 - and there's a whole page in the manual on the Function Menu and what can be locked!?



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It's Page 16. That covers Lock and Unlock as well as explaining what is and isn't locked (combinations of Keyboad, Dial, PTT), according to the configuration item. I usually lock everything unless I plan to talk, in which case I change the config item to lock just keys and dial.
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Look close (I can’t remember the button) but it says lock. Press and hold until it beeps.?

K9TLN

On Jan 1, 2022, at 13:46, Philip Milazzo <philip.milazzo@...> wrote:

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It's Page 16. That covers Lock and Unlock as well as explaining what is and isn't locked (combinations of Keyboad, Dial, PTT), according to the configuration item. I usually lock everything unless I plan to talk, in which case I change the config item to lock just keys and dial.
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Look close (I can’t remember the button) but it says lock. Press and hold until it beeps.?

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K9TLN



On Jan 1, 2022, at 13:46, Philip Milazzo <philip.milazzo@...> wrote:

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It's Page 16. That covers Lock and Unlock as well as explaining what is and isn't locked (combinations of Keyboad, Dial, PTT), according to the configuration item. I usually lock everything unless I plan to talk, in which case I change the config item to lock just keys and dial.

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Holding down 6 on the keypad will toggle the lock on or off.

If you have good ears, you’ll notice that when the lock engages, you hear a 5th-octave A, about 880 Hz.

When you press 6 again, lock turns off, and you hear a 5th-octave E, followed by a 5th-octave F. The first is longer than the second.

As a ham who is blind and a musician, I need things like that to know what the radio is doing, if the radio does not talk.

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(compared to the FT-70 which does not emit nearly as many helpful beeps as the 60… or rather, the beeps are almost all the same pitch, so don’t communicate nearly as much information to the operator)

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