Electronic Keyer Operation - Yaesu FT-847 Operating Manual

OPERATION
E K
LECTRONIC EYER
The FT-847's built-in electronic keyer is flexible, yet easy to use.
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Insert your key's ¼" three-conductor ("stereo") plug
into the KEY jack on the rear panel of the trans-
ceiver. Remember that the Tip of this plug is the
"Dot" key lead, the Ring connector is the "Dash"
lead, and the main shaft is Ground.
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Set the applicable controls as follows:
MODE:
PROC/KEYER: On (the "KEYER " icon should
KEYER SPEED: 12 o'clock position
RF PWR:
MONI:
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When you press your thumb against your keyer
paddle, a string of Dots will be generated by the
. Rotate the KEYER SPEED control to set
K
EYER
the desired sending speed.
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You may adjust the sidetone pitch, sidetone vol-
ume, and receiver recovery time as described in
the previous section.
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The K 's Weighting (Dash:Dot ratio) may be
EYER
adjusted via Menu #7, although the default 3:1 ra-
tio should normally be used. See page 84 if you
need to make this adjustment.
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CW T
O
PERATION
CW
appear on the LCD)
Fully Clockwise
On
RANSMISSION
CW S F
POT EATURE
During CW operation, it is useful to be able to zero in
precisely to the other station's frequency. The CW S
feature of the FT-847 makes this task simple.
During CW operation, press the
[T.CALL (l)] key; you will hear a solid
tone in the speaker. The pitch of this
tone corresponds to the pitch of your
signal as heard by another station rela-
tive to your current operating frequency (i.e. it is the
tone at which you are transmitting). The pitch of this
tone (and the BFO offset for the receiver, etc.) may be
aligned via Menu #06 (see page 84).
If you align the pitch produced by the S
be exactly the same as the pitch of an incoming CW
signal, you will precisely zero-beat to the other sta-
tion.
Note that the BFO offset is compensated for by the
microprocessor when you switch between CW (USB
injection) and CW (LSB injection). So unless you have
the IF S control grossly mis-aligned, you can never
HIFT
find yourself "spotted" on the "wrong" sideband.
FT-847 O
POT
function to
POT
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PERATING ANUAL