Yaesu FTM-350 - APRS, Manual

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FTM-350 S
ERIES
APRS
®
M
ANUAL
16
T
RANSMIT AN
APRS
®
M
ESSAGE
1. Press the [
F
] key repeatedly, until the [
SMART FUNCTION
] keys category changes
to “
F-3
” mode, if necessary.
2. Press the [ MSG
] key to open the “Message
List” window.
3. Press the [ M y EDIT
] key to enter the “TX
Message Edit” mode.
4. Press the [ CLR
] key to clear any previously
stored callsign, if necessary.
5. Enter the callsign (with SSID) of the station
you wish to contact using the following ex-
amples.
Example 1 : Press one of the microphone keypad button. Press the [ A
] / [
B
] key to
move the cursor forward or backward, and press the [ C
] key to delete all
data after the cursor.
Example 2 : Rotate the left side [
DIAL
] knob to select a character/number and press
the [
Œ
] key to move the cursor to the next digit. Press the [
‹
] key to
backspace the cursor.
6. When you have completed entering the callsign (with SSID), press the microphone [
B
]
key or [
Œ
] key.
7. Press the [ CLR
] key to clear any previous messages, if necessary.
8. Enter the message using the same procedures as above. Additionally, you may select/
add/delete the characters/message using the following procedure:
a. Press the [
FONT
] key to change the character (upper-case alphabet, lower-case
alphabet, numeric, and symbol).
b. If you want to add a previously stored message (select a message from the list
stored in “ APRS/PKT ” Set Mode item “ E04 APRS MESSAGE TEXT ”; see next
page):
1) Press the [
F
] key to change the
[
SMART FUNCTION
] keys cat-
egory to “ E-2 ” mode.
2) Press the [ MTXT
] key to open the
“MESSAGE TEXT” window, then
rotate the
left side [ DIAL
] knob to
select the desired previously stored
message.
3) Press the [
ENT
] key to insert the message, then press the [
ESC
] key to close
the window.
c. Press the [
INS
] key to add a character.
d. Press the [
CLR
] key or microphone [
C
] key to delete all data after the cursor.