Kenwood TS-990S Operation Manual - Page 123
Storing Temporarily And Transmitting The Text String In The Buffer, Utilizing An Rtty Message Memory
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ASSISTING YOUR SMOOTH QSO 5 STORING TEMPORARILY AND TRANSMITTING THE TEXT STRING IN THE BUFFER 1 Connect a USB keyboard to the (USB-A) connector. 2 Press [FSK/ PSK/ REV] to enter RTTY (FSK) mode. 3 Press [DECODE] (F3) to open the RTTY Encode/ Decode screen. 4 Enter the text strings using the USB keyboard. The entered text string is placed and displayed in the text string buffer. 5 Press [F12] of the USB keyboard to send a text string. • The transceiver transmits the text string accumulated in the text string buffer. • The "BUSY/TX" LED lights red and "ENCODE" appears on the status bar when the transceiver is in a transmit state. • Each letter in the text string buffer changes its color in sequence when the letter is transmitted. Each letter transmitted appears sequentially the TX and RX Transcript. 6 Press [F12] of the USB keyboard to receive. Note: ◆◆If letters not transmitted yet remain in the text string buffer when [F12] is pressed at step 6, "WAIT" appears on the status bar. When the entire text string is transmitted, the transceiver enters the receive mode and the "BUSY/TX" LED and "WAIT" are unlit. ◆◆The transceiver enters the receiving mode if [ESC] on the USB keyboard is pressed while the text string is being transmitted. Transmission of the text string ends, and any text waiting for transmission in the text string buffer is deleted. ◆◆You can add time stamp and frequency information in the transmit and receive data displayed in the TX and RX Transcript. ◆◆You can pause the transmission of the text string using the USB keyboard by pressing [PAUSE] (F3). Another press of [PAUSE] (F3) releases the pause. ◆◆The text string temporarily stored in the text string buffer can contain a maximum of 4,300 characters. ◆◆The following alphanumeric characters and signs can be entered from the USB keyboard. A BCD E F GH I J K LMN OPQR S T U VWX Y Z 0 1 23456789 ! " #$& ' Space Line Break Utilizing an RTTY Message Memory You can save frequently used fixed phases commonly used in RTTY (FSK) mode as RTTY messages in the RTTY message memory. If you configure automatic TX and RX triggers in your messages, you can transmit the RTTY messages with ease. You can store a maximum of eight RTTY messages in channel 1 through channel 8. STORING MESSAGES d
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