General Coverage Reception; Button Beeper Settings; Blanking The 10'S-Of-Hz Digit - Yaesu FT-990 Operating Manual

Operation Getting Started Tutorial
Press the
£NT
key at the
lower right comer of the
keypad (the leftmost oper-
ating frequency digit will
blink). Then referring to
the yellow numbers on the
keypad, enter the digits of
the new frequency, from
left
to
right
(1 - 4 -
z -
5
- o - o -
0), followed by the £NT key again. As
you enter the numbers, the next digit to be entered
will blink on the display. You can use the
DOliN
and
UP
buttons below the keypad to reposition the
bliJ1 king digit lOcation as desired (but In this case,
ignore the direction labels on these bu tlons).
The operating frequency actually changes only
when you press the
EN T
key the second time, so if
you decide to remain on the original frequency
after starting to key
in
a new one, you can cancel
any entered digits by pressing the
CE
key (''Oear
Entry", the yellow label at the lower left comer of
the keypad) instead of the
ENT
key.
Note that, to
enter frequencies 1;1elow 10 MHz, you must key in
the leading zero(s}.
That's all there is to tuning. You can use the
same procedures on either vfo
(/1
or B), and on any
memory, as described later. First, however, let's
look at some other important receiver features.
General Coverage Reception
You may have already noticed that when you
tune outside one of the amateur bands (actually,
outside of the 500-kHz segment that includes each
band},
N G£11"
appears in a box at the left side of the
display. On such frequencies, the transmitter (and
antenna tuner)
are
disabled. If you
try
to transmit,
the
TRANSM IT LED
blinks.
Also, such frequencies are ignored by the nor-
mal ham band selection keys. If you select
a
ham
band and then tune to
a
frequency outside of that
band, the non-ham frequency will be lost when
you switch to another band. When you return
to
the original band you will find that it has reverted
to the (ham-band> frequency it was on when the
band\vaslastchanged.
The
GEH
key at the lower left corner of the key-
pad complements the other band keys by serving
as a band selection )<ey for genera l coverage fre-
quencies. This "general coverage band" key can
retain only a non-ham band frequency. If you press
this key and then tune to a ham band frequency,
that ham frequency will be lost when you switch to
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Blanking th e 10's-of-H2
Digit
If you prefer to have the 10's-of-Hz digit
hidden on
tl\e
frequency displays, you
c;m
toggle display of
this c;ligit
off and on by
switchJ ng off the transceiver, and holding the
0
key (at the bottom center of the keypad)
while switching the lrallSC('iver back on. Re-
peat this process to redisplay the digit. Tun-
ing steps are not affected.
another band. When you later press the
GEH
key
again, you
will
find that it
has
reverted to
the
(non-ham band} frequency it was on when
the
band was last changed.
Don't let the above comments about loosing
frequencies worry you: any displayed frequl.'ncy
can always be stored inn memory (as described on
page 35) so you can recall it quickly later. Once you
become familiar with the memories, you will find
this
Is
convenient,
as each
memory can be tuned
just like a vfo, and stored again without having to
go through
a
vfo.
Aside from the above, general coverage
recep-
tion provides all of the features availa\lle op ham
frequencies, including interference suppression
and digital modes, described on the follo\ving
pages.
Button Beep e r Settings
As shipped from the factory, pressing a button
or key on the front panel causes
a
beep to
sound. The volume of the beep is independent
of the receiver volume, and can be set as de-
scrilx'<l on page
11
(you need to remove the
top cover}.
You
can
al,~o
toggle the beeper (to be enabled
or disabled} by holding the
CL£AR
button near
the top right corner of the front panel while
switching the transceiver on.
If you
wish to change the pitch of the
beeper,
hold the
FAST
button (below left of the tuning
knob) wlu1e pressing the
C LEAR
button. This
c: n
u~s
the display
tQ
show the beeper fre-
quency i n Fl1.
1
while double beeps sound.
Turning the Cl.AR knob adjusts the beep pitch.
When done, press the CLEAR button again to
return to normal operation.