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6.

 

Appendix 

 

6.1.

 

General notes on VR-500 usage 

 

 

To access the main settings menu, press ‘Ent’ whilst holding the ‘FUNC’ button. Use the ‘Dial’ 

knob to scroll through the menu options. Turn the ‘Dial’ knob whilst holding the ‘FUNC’ 

button to change settings within a menu. Note that the settings menu can only be access 

from VFO mode. 

 

To enter a frequency in VFO mode, enter the digits as required using the keypad and then 

press Enter. Adjust squelch as needed (anti-clockwise = squelch fully open/most sensitive). 

To start searching in VFO mode, press button ‘3’ (SCH/SCN) on the keypad whilst holding the 

‘FUNC’ button. Turn the ‘Dial’ knob to adjust the search direction up or down as desired. 

To adjust the VR-500’s behaviour in a frequency hold during a transmission (‘Resume’ 

mode), press button ‘3’ again on the keypad whilst holding the ‘FUNC’ button. Do this 

repeatedly to cycle through each mode – Pause (no indicator), Busy (BS) or Hold (HS).  Busy 

is the best to use. 

Press the ‘CLR’ button to stop the search. 

When the VR-500 holds on a frequency during a search (i.e. during a transmission) you can 

stop the search from continuing again after the transmission stops by turning the ‘Dial’ knob 

one click. Turning  the ‘Dial’ knob again will resume the search. 

 

The VR-500 has 1000 channels – 10 banks of 100. The banks are designated 0-9. The first 

digit of a channel number indicates which bank it is in, e.g. channel 425 is in memory bank 4. 

To access the memory channels, press button ‘1’ (Memo) whilst holding down the ‘FUNC’ 

button. ‘MR’ (Memory Recall) will now be displayed on the screen. Enter a 3-digit channel 

number on the keypad to access a specific channel, or turn the ‘Dial’ knob. 

To start scanning ALL memory channels, press button ‘3’ (SCH/SCN) whilst holding the 

‘FUNC’ button. ‘MS’ (Memory Scanning) will be displayed on the screen. Pressing any of the 

buttons 0-9 will limit scanning to the corresponding bank only. 

 

The VR-500 can be set to scan only those banks specified by the user by using the Bank Scan 

and Bank Limit options. To configure this, make sure the VR-500 is in VFO mode then press 

‘Ent’ while holding the ‘FUNC’ button. Use the ‘Dial’ knob to scroll to menu 18 ‘Bank Limit’. 

Turn the ‘Dial’ knob  whilst holding ‘FUNC’ until the cursor is over the desired bank number, 

then release the ‘FUNC’ button and turn the ‘Dial’ knob to place an underline under that 

number. Repeat this process until all desired bank numbers have an underline under them 

Summary of Contents for tk500

Page 1: ...tk500 VR 500 User Guide Programming and using the Yaesu VR 500 Scanner Written by Neil Walker June 2008...

Page 2: ...computer 2 2 Reading config and memory channel data from the radio 3 3 Writing config and memory channel data to the radio 5 4 Editing memory channel data 7 5 Acknowledgements 7 6 Appendix 8 6 1 Gene...

Page 3: ...00 Double click tk500 bat to run the software Connect the TTL RS232 interface adaptor to the computer i e the RS232 cable to the serial port and the power USB cable to a free USB port Connect the gree...

Page 4: ...e Radio menu Follow the instructions in the box that opens i e Hold down the 1 8 and ENT key whilst switching the VR 500 on the display on theVR 500 will now show two options 1 RX CLONE and 2 TX CLONE...

Page 5: ...open in the tk500 software and the VR 500 will show the message CLONE TX PASS Press ENT on the VR 500 and click the OK button in the tk500 software To save this data go to File Save As and name the fi...

Page 6: ...o programming commencing In the tk500 software go to File Open and select the appropriate tk5 file Choose Write to radio in the Radio menu Follow the instructions in the box that opens i e Hold down t...

Page 7: ...to the radio A window will open in the tk500 software showing the write progress When the write process is complete a Transfer Complete message will open in the tk500 software and the VR 500 will sho...

Page 8: ...y channels In the box that opens click to confirm that you wish to clear the memory channel data Go to the File menu choose Export memory channels and select the appropriate csv file Finally follow th...

Page 9: ...ng again after the transmission stops by turning the Dial knob one click Turning the Dial knob again will resume the search The VR 500 has 1000 channels 10 banks of 100 The banks are designated 0 9 Th...

Page 10: ...erential scanning press button 3 whilst holding FUNC to start scanning and then press button 5 whilst holding FUNC PMS Preferential Memory Scanning will now be displayed on the screen The resume mode...

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