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VL-1000 Operating Manual
When using the Grapfical SWR Meter dis-
play,
press and hold this switch for ½ second
to change the frequency span of the meter.
11. TUNER Switch
Pressing this switch places the antenna
tuner in the transmit signal path. When the
antenna tuner is activated, the “
TUNER
” indi-
cator appears on the display. Press this switch
again to turn off the antenna tuner.
12. TUNE Switch
This switch activates the auto-tune system
manually. Normally, when the operating band
is changed, the tuner will automatically adjust
itself for the same antenna selection and
matching impedance which was set the last
time that band was used. Press this switch to
retune if you are on a different part of the band,
or if the SWR is still too high after automatic
tuning. Manual-restart with this switch can be
used to “force” rematching of the impedance
presented by the antenna system at any time.
13. F SET Switch
Press this switch to activate the exciter and
tune up the VL-1000 automatically when us-
ing the FT-1000MP (with the cable shown on
page 4 connected between the BAND DATA
2 jack on the VL-1000 and R
EMOTE
jack on the
FT-1000MP).
14. CONTRAST Knob
This knob used to adjust the LCD contrast.
15. LCD Display
The upper half of the display consists a 320
x 60 dot-matrix display showing operating sta-
tus of the VL-1000, including the Graphical
SWR meter. The lower half contains various
icons representing enabled features.
Front Panel Controls and Switches
7. ANT Switch
This switch can be used for manual selec-
tion of up to four antennas. The antenna se-
lection is stored in memory, so once selected
and matched on a particular band, the same
antenna will be reselected automatically when
recalling that band. One of the indicators “
ANT
1
” to “
ANT 4
” will appear on the display to indi-
cate which antenna is in use.
8. DISPLAY 1 Switch
Press and hold this switch for ½ second to
copy the current display into Display Memory
#1. Press this switch
momentarily to recall the
Display Memory 1 data to the display. This
switch is also used for alignment of the ALC
system, if needed.
9. DISPLAY 2 Switch
Press and hold this switch for ½ second to
copy the current display into Display Memory
#2. Press this switch
momentarily to recall the
Display Memory 2 data to the display. This
switch is also used for alignment of the ALC
system, if needed.
10. DISPLAY SELECT Switch
This switch is used to select the display
function, with the selections being provided in
the following sequence:
Multi Meter 1
È
Multi Meter 2
È
PO Meter 1
È
PO Meter 2
È
Graphical SWR Meter
È
Multi Meter 1
È