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-?User friends of Yaesu FT series transceivers, who knows how to configure CW please post here on this forum how to do it.



Oliveira?
Yaesu Ft897?
Sp / SP-Br?

As you say you want to use the radio to train in CW, here are some suggestions:

1. Before you can practice sending morse, you have to know what it should sound like. ?Practicing sending the wrong way will ingain habits that are hard to drop later. ? So listen to it on the air, find morse practice broadcasts, or get apps for your phone that can provide variable speed receiving practice. ?When you have brought your receiving capabiity up to about 10 wpm of plain language, or better still, code groups (harder because you cannot forsee what is coming), you may then want to practice sending to copy the sound you now know.?

2. To use the radio for sending practice without transmitting, set the mode to CW, set the BK settings off, so that when you press the key, the radio does NOT go onto transmit. ?But wait! Before doing that, plug a dummy load into the antenna socket instead of the antenna. ?Otherwise you might accidentally transmit your practice sessions, or worse, you may transmit into no antenna, which can damage the transmitter. ?

You need to find the main menu row that includes the settings for BK. ?It’s in the manual, or you can just short-press the function key and scroll through the menu options until you see BK in the third position. ?If you turn the VFO dial it will cycle between off and on. ?You want it off for practice.?

4. Plug the cable from your key into the Key socket at the rear of the radio. ?Wiring as per the manual, the tip of the connector is the dot for the keyer, also it’s the connection for using a hand key. ?The sleeve is the earth return for the key or paddle. ?The ring connecton is the dash connection for a paddle and if you have a hand key, don’t connect anything to that terminal. ?To identify the terminals on the bare plug, you can figure them out by eye, or use a continuity test function on a multimeter.?

3. ?You can set the sidetone volume in the settings. ?And also the sidetone frequency, or offset. ?700 hz is what I use but you can choose the frequency that you are comfortable with, typically anything from 500 to 1000 hz. ?This is a personal preference and there is no “right” frequency. ?

4. ?As you have learned the code and know what it should sound like, your sending should mimic a good sender. ?So play a bit of morse from a recording or a phone app, then copy that text and compare how you are sending with that.?

5. ?Set up a practice contact with a friend once you have a working antenna and your licence callsign. ?Have a practice contact, sending signal reports and giving your name, just as practice. ?Go as slow as you like, speed does not matter. ?Next day, do it again. ?

Over to you. ?BK

de vk1da?

Let me add my two cents: a good place to learn receiving is

@Oliveira FT897 can also send groups of letters for you to practice receiving but I strongly suggest the above site (or any other app you like) which gives you a smoother learning path
As said by Andrew when you have learned to receive, sending code is only a matter of mimic

73 de IZ3GME Marco

also this:



very usefull. I'm using this tool also to learn and practise

73 de iu2bxu
Fulvio Beretta