Contest Number Programming; Decrementing The Contest Number - Yaesu FTDX5000 Series Operating Manual

7. When the message is complete, add the "}" character
at the end to signify the termination of the message.
8. Press and hold in the FH-2 [ MEM ] key
for 2 seconds to exit, once all charac-
ters (including "}") have been pro-
grammed.
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Contest Number Programming

Use this process if you are starting a contest, or if
you somehow get out of sync with the proper num-
ber in the middle of a contest.
1. Press the [ MENU ] button briefly, to enter the
Menu mode.
2. Rotate the ( VFO-A )[ SELECT ] knob to select
Menu item "024 KEY CONTEST".
3. Rotate the ( VFO-B )[ SELECT ] knob to set the
Contest Number to the desired value.
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Press the [ CLEAR ] button briefly (located
above the [ CLAR ( VFO-B )] knob), to reset the
Contest Number to "1 1 1 1 1 ".
4. Press and hold in the [ MENU ] button for two
seconds to store the new number and exit to
normal operation.
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1. Be sure that Break-in is still turned "off" by the [ BK-
IN ] button.
2. Press the [ MONI ] button briefly, to enable the CW
monitor.
3. Press an FH-2 [ 1 ] ~ [ 5 ] key to check
your work. You will hear the stored
message with the CW monitor sidetone,
but no RF energy will be transmitted.
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Adjust the monitor level using the [ MONI ] knob.
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1. Press the [ BK-IN ] button briefly to enable transmis-
sion. Either Full- or Semi-break-in will be engaged de-
pending on the setting of Menu item "063 A1A BK-
IN."
2. Press the FH-2's [ 1 ] ~ [ 5 ] key to trans-
mit the programmed message.
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If you subsequently decide to use the "Message Memory"
technique for message storage, on a particular memory
register, the contents of the message stored using text in-
put will not be transferred over when you select the "Mes-
sage Memory" technique (the Menu Mode Setting is set
MESSAGE MESSAGE
MESSAGE MESSAGE").
to "MESSAGE

Decrementing the Contest Number

Use this process if the current contest number gets
ahead of the actual number you want to send (in
case of a duplicate QSO, for example).
Press the FH-2 control's [ DEC ] key.
The current Contest Number will be
reduced by one. Press the [ DEC ]
button briefly, as many times as nec-
essary, to reach the desired number.
If you go too far, use the "Contest
Number Programming" technique
desireded at the left.
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