FT-950
Operating Manual
Vertex Standard Co., Ltd.
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Contest Number (“Countup”) feature.
Example 2: 599 10 200 # K (15 characters)
Storing a Message into Memory
1. Press the [MENU] button to enter the Menu mode.
2. Rotate the [SELECT] knob to select the CW Memory Register into which you wish
to store the message; for now, we are just selecting the message entry technique
(Keyer entry).
019 KEY CW MEM1
020 KEY CW MEM2
021 KEY CW MEM3
022 KEY CW MEM4
023 KEY CW MEM5
Advice: Press the [SELECT] knob to toggle the Menu item display between “Menu
Item Number & Group Name” and “Menu Function”.
3. Rotate the [CLAR/VFO-B] knob to set the selected CW Memory Register to “tyP1.”
If you want to text message entry on all memories, set all five Menu items (#019 ~
023) to “tyP1.”
4. Press and hold in the [MENU] button for two seconds to save the new settings and
exit.
Text Message Programming
1. Press the [CW] button to set the operating mode to CW.
2. Be sure that the Break-in is “Off” by pressing the [BK-IN] button, if necessary.
3. Press and hold the [SELECT] knob for two seconds to activate the Contest Memory
Keyer. Indicates one of following indication in Multi-Display Window on the
display; “rEC1”, “rEC2”, “rEC3”, “rEC4”, “rEC5”, “PLY1”, “PLY2”, “PLY3”, “PLY4”,
and “PLY5”.
4. Rotate the [SELECT] knob to select the Memory Register (“rEC1” through “rEC5”)
which you wish to program the text.
5. Press the [SELECT] knob. A “REC” icon will appear in the display.
6. Use the Main Tuning Dial knob to set the cursor position and use the
[CLAR/VFO-B] knob to choose the letter/number to be programmed in each slot of
the memory. In the case of the second example above, the “#” character designates
the slot where the Contest Number will appear.
7. When the message is complete, add the “}” character at the end to signify the
