Revision 1.00 beta – April 2019
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7. Transceiver Operation
7.1. Switching ON and OFF
Make sure the transceiver is connected to 13.8V power supply.
Tap shortly
button to switch on the transceiver
Press and hold
button to switch it off
7.2. VFO A/B mode operation
RGO ONE has two independent VFO’s with many parameters and adjustments
stored in. With short press of A/B
MEM
button each of them can be selected. LCD
shows VFO selected. Short press of A=B
SPL
copies contents of active VFO to the
inactive VFO. In this mode of operation the frequency can be tuned continuously by
main dial optical encoder 4 (fig.7). Available steps (tuning rates): 1Hz; 10Hz; 100Hz;
1kHz. At 100Hz and 1kHz steps
icon appears on the LCD. Buttons UP
REC
and
DOWN
PLY
moves to the next upper or lower band respectively.
Besides using main dial knob for frequency change a direct frequency entry is
available via numeric keypad 3 (fig.1). Short press of
ENT
LOCK
button activates
direct frequency entry mode. Then enter the frequency starting with most significant
digit. Then short press
ENT
LOCK
again to store and display new frequency. For
example if you need to put 14.150.00 Mhz – press
ENT
LOCK
shortly then tap
1
4
1
5
buttons on numeric keypad and press
ENT
LOCK
again. The new frequency will be
displayed on LCD.
7.3. SPLIT mode operation
Split mode allows different receive (RX) and transmit (TX) frequencies to be used.
Long press A=B
SPL
s and active VFO will display receive frequency. Transmit
frequency will be determined from inactive VFO.
XFC tune feature – When in split mode by pressing and holding A/B
MEM
button
transmit frequency becomes receive frequency. Then with main dial the frequency
can be tuned exactly on the place where the DX station is listening. Then release the
button and transmit on that frequency.
7.4. MEMORY mode
RGO ONE has 100 memory channels. Long press of A/B
MEM
enters memory mode.
All needed parameters like modes, frequency, filters modes etc. are saved in memory
locations. Short press of UP
REC
and DOWN
PLY
buttons or rotating encoder 3
scrolls memory channels.
MEMORY write: Exit MEMORY mode if needed by long press of A/B
MEM
button
and enter MENU by long press of MTR
MNU
button. Rotate encoder 3 or short press
of UP
REC
and DOWN
PLY
buttons until reach menu 8. On the sub display first
free memory location will be shown. Select memory location with main encoder 4 and
long press A/B
MEM
button
