Chapter 2 Your First Qso; Receiving - Kenwood TS-570D, TS-570S Instruction Manual

2 YOUR FIRST QSO
Since you've now installed the TS-570, why not try it? The instructions below are abbreviated. They are intended
only to act as a quick introduction. If you encounter problems or there's something you don't understand, you can
read about the subject in more detail later.
w
POWER
PF
ATT PRE-AMP
VOX PROC
SEND AT TUNE
PHONES
MIC
Note: Only those buttons and controls required to briefly try the
transceiver are explained in this section.
q Set the following as specified:
• AF control:
• RF control:
• DSP SLOPE (HIGH) control:
• DSP SLOPE (LOW) control:
• IF SHIFT control: Center
• SQL control:
w Switch ON the DC power supply, then press and
hold the [POWER] switch briefly.
• The transceiver switches ON. Indicators and
frequency digits should appear on the display.
• Note that pressing [POWER] for more than
approximately 2 seconds switches the
transceiver power OFF.
4

RECEIVING

HF TRANSCEIVER TS-570D
CH1 CH2 CH3
MIC
LSB
1 2 3
USB
ANT REC FINE
PWR
CW
4 5 6 FSK
NB AGC/TONE REV
KEY
FM
7 8 9
AM
F.LOCK
DELAY MENU 1MHz
0
CLR ENT
y
Fully counterclockwise
Fully clockwise
Fully clockwise
Fully counterclockwise
Fully counterclockwise
t
UP
DOWN
MR
M.IN
SPLIT TF-SET A/B RIT
M/V A=B CLEAR XIT
SCAN M>VFO M.IN
e
u
e VFO A should already be selected for receiving
and transmitting, and you should see "tA" on the
display. If not, press the [A/B] button.
r Increase the AF control slowly clockwise until you
hear a suitable level of background noise.
t Select an Amateur band by pressing the [UP] or
[DOWN] button.
y Select an operating mode by pressing the
[LSB/USB] or [CW/FSK] button.
• Press the same button again to toggle to the
second function on the button. For example,
repeatedly pressing the [LSB/USB] button
switches between LSB and USB modes.
u Turn the Tuning control to tune in a station.
• If no stations are heard but you have an
antenna connected, possibly the wrong
antenna connector is selected. Pressing the
[ANT] button toggles between the Antenna 1
and the Antenna 2 connectors.
DSP SLOPE
HIGH LOW
N.R.
q
B.C.
CW TUNE
q
FILTER
AF RF
RIT/XIT
4 6
qr
2 8
– +
q
0 10
CH IF SHIFT SQL
4 6
q
2 8
q
0 10