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FT
DX
5000 O
PERATING
M
ANUAL
Cursor
Current Cursor Position
CW Memory Register Number
Message
Choose the letter/number
TEXT Memory
The four channels of CW message memory (up to 50 characters total) may also be programmed using the text-entry
technique. This is somewhat slower than sending the message directly from your keyer paddle, but accuracy of character
spacing is ensured.
Example 1
: CQ CQ CQ DE W6DXC K} (20 characters)
You may also utilize another powerful feature of the CW Memory Keyer, the sequential Contest Number (“Countup”)
feature.
Example 2
: 599 10 200
#
K} (15 characters)
C
ONTEST
M
EMORY
K
EYER
S
TORING
T
EXT
INTO
M
EMORY
1. Press the [
MENU
] button briefly, to enter the Menu
mode.
2. Rotate the (
VFO-A
)[
SELECT
] knob to select the CW
Memory Register you wish to store the message in.
For now, you are just selecting the message entry tech-
nique (Text entry).
025 KEY CW MEM1
026 KEY CW MEM2
027 KEY CW MEM3
028 KEY CW MEM4
029 KEY CW MEM5
3. Rotate the (
VFO-B
)[
SELECT
] knob to set the selected
Memory Register to “
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
”. If you want to use the
Text method for message entry on all memories, set all
five Menu items (#025 ~ 029) to “
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
”.
4. Press and hold in the [
MENU
] button for two seconds
to save the new settings and exit.
CW C
ONVENIENCE
F
EATURES
T
EXT
M
ESSAGE
P
ROGRAMMING
1. Set the operating mode to CW.
2. Set the [
BK-IN
] button to “off”.
3. Turn the internal Electronic Keyer “on” by briefly
pressing the [
KEYER
] button.
4. Press the
FH-2
’s [
MEM
] key.
5. Press the [
1
] ~ [
5
] key on the
FH-2
to
begin the memory storage process.
6. Use the
FH-2
’s [
] and [
] keys to
set the cursor position and use the [
]
and [
] keys to choose the letter/num-
ber to be programmed in each slot of
the memory. In the case of the second
example above, the “
#
” character des-
ignates the slot where the Contest Num-
ber will appear.
A
DVICE
:
You may set the cursor position with the (
VFO-
A
)[
SELECT
] knob, and then choose the letter/num-
ber with the (
VFO-B
)[
SELECT
] knob.
LOCK
OFF
ON
LOCK
OFF
ON
LOCK
OFF
ON
(VFO-B)[SELECT] Knob
[MENU] Button
(VFO-A)[SELECT] Knob
Select the cursor position
