Kenwood TS-990S User Manual

Ts-990s, Instruction manual

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HF/50 MHz TRANSCEIVER

TS-990S

INSTRUCTION MANUAL

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PRIOR TO YOUR FIRST QSO
- FEATURES
- SUPPLIED ACCESSORIES
- MARKET CODES
- NOTICE TO THE USER
- NOTIFICATION
- PRECAUTIONS
- TRANSPORTATION, INSTALLATION AND PACKING MATERIAL STORAGE
- ABOUT THIS MANUAL
- COPYRIGHTS FOR THIS MANUAL
- SOFTWARE COPYRIGHTS
- SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
- IMPORTANT NOTICES CONCERNING THE SOFTWARE
- ABOUT THE GPL/LPGL LICENSE
- COPYRIGHTS FOR RECORDED AUDIO
- TRADEMARKS
- INDEMNITY
- YOUR QUERIES ABOUT EXTERNAL DEVICES OR PC CONNECTED TO THE TRANSCEIVER
- OPERATION OF THE OPTIONAL APPLICATIONS
- TREATMENT OF YOUR IMPORTANT DATA
- TROUBLESHOOTING
- ABOUT THE URL AND CONTACTS OF JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
- NOTATIONS APPLIED TO THIS MANUAL
1 INSTALLING AND CONNECTING THE TRANSCEIVER
- Precautions FOR INSTALLATION
- ANTENNA Installation AND CONNECTION
  - CONNECTING AN AC POWER CABLE
  - GROUND CONNECTION
- LIGHTNING ARRESTER INSTALLATION
- TRANSCEIVER TILT MECHANISM
  - TORQUE ADJUSTMENT FOR TUNING (M) CONTROL
- ACCESSORIES CONNECTIONS (FRONT PANEL)
- CONNECTION TO A PC
- CONNECTION TO AN APPLICABLE TRANSCEIVER (QUICK DATA TRANSFER)
- CONNECTION TO THE LINEAR AMPLIFIER
  - CONNECTION TO THE TL-922
  - CONNECTING A TYPICAL LINEAR AMPLIFIER
- CONNECTION TO OTHER KENWOOD TRANSCEIVERS WITH A TNC TERMINAL
- CONNECTION TO AN EXTERNAL ANTENNA TUNER AT-300
- CONNECTION TO A TNC, MCP, ETC.
- CONNECTING TO YOUR LAN
- TERMINAL DESCRIPTIONS
2 PANEL DESCRIPTION
- FRONT PANEL
- REAR PANEL
- MICROPHONE (OPTION)
- MAIN SCREEN
- SUB-SCREEN
3 MENU
- MENU CONFIGURATIONS
4 BASIC OPERATIONS
- TURNING THE TRANSCEIVER ON
- TURNING THE TRANSCEIVER OFF
  - ENABLING THE STANDBY STATE LOW POWER CONSUMPTION
    - Controlling THE COOLING FAN WHILE IN THE STANDBY STATE
    - COOLING FAN AND TEMPERATURE PROTECTION FOR FINAL UNIT
- MAIN AND SUB SCREEN DISPLAYS
  - MAIN SCREEN
  - SUB SCREEN
- CONFIGURING THE SCREEN TYPE
  - CHANGING THE BACKGROUND COLOR
  - CHANGING THE DISPLAY FONT
  - CHANGING THE DIAL COLOR (SUB SCREEN)
- CAPTURING AND SAVING SCREEN IMAGES
- SELECTING THE DIMMER
  - CHANGING BRIGHTNESS
  - ADJUSTING THE DIMMER LEVEL
- SWAPPING THE OPERATING DATA BETWEEN MAIN BAND AND SUB BAND
- ADJUSTING THE AF GAIN
  - MUTING THE RECEIVED AUDIO
- ADJUSTING THE RF GAIN
- ADJUSTING THE SQUELCH LEVEL
- CONFIGURING THE OPERATING BAND
- SELECTING THE OPERATING MODE
  - LSB or USB Mode
  - CW/CW-R Mode
  - FSK/FSK-R or PSK/PSK-R Mode
  - FM/AM Mode
  - CONFIGURING THE DATA MODE
- AUTO MODE
  - ENABLING/DISABLING AUTO MODE
  - CONFIGURING AUTO MODE FREQUENCY POINTS
- TUNING THE FREQUENCY
  - TUNING WITH THE TUNING CONTROL
  - USING THE MICROPHONE KEYS
  - CHANGING THE FREQUENCY
  - CHANGING THE STEP FREQUENCY
  - ROUNDING OFF THE FREQUENCY
  - FINE TUNING
  - TUNING IN MHz STEP
    - SELECTING THE STEP FREQUENCY FOR AM BROADCAST LISTENING
  - DIRECTLY ENTERING THE FREQUENCY
    - DISPLAYING THE HISTORY OF THE FREQUENCY ENTRIES
- USING THE FREQUENCY LOCK
- TRANSMITTING
  - AUDIO TRANSMISSION
  - CW TRANSMISSION
- ADJUSTING THE MICROPHONE GAIN
- ADJUSTING THE TX POWER
  - PRECISELY ADJUSTING THE TX POWER
  - TRANSMIT POWER LIMITER
- Meter
  - CHANGING THE METER TYPE
  - CHANGING THE TRANSMIT METER
  - METER PEAK-VALUE HOLD
  - ANALOG METER RESPONSE SPEED
- STORING THE ANTENNA NAME
- CHANGING THE ANTENNA
- RX ANTENNA
- DRIVE OUTPUT (DRV)
- INTERNAL ANTENNA TUNER
  - SECURING THE MATCHING TO THE ANTENNA
  - PRESET
    - CHANGING THE ANTENNA BEHAVIOR FOR RECEPTION
    - TRANSMIT HOLD AFTER ANTENNA TUNING COMPLETES
- CONFIGURING THE STEREO HEADPHONES OUTPUT
  - CONFIGURING THE MIX BALANCE OF THE STEREO HEADPHONES OUTPUT
5 ASSISTING YOUR SMOOTH QSO
- SIMPLEX OPERATION
- SPLIT OPERATION
  - FINDING THE TX FREQUENCY BY ROTATING THE TUNING CONTROL (S)
    - DIRECTLY ENTERING THE FREQUENCY SPLIT SPECIFIED BY A DXer
    - Rotate the Tuning (M) control to search for the transmit frequency.
- SEARCHING WITH TF-SET ENABLED FOR THE TRANSMIT FREQUENCY DURING RECEPTION
- SIMULTANEOUS MAIN BAND AND Sub band RECEPTION
- FREQUENCY TRACKING
- AGC (AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL)
  - SELECTING THE AGC TIME CONSTANT
  - CHANGING THE AGC TIME CONSTANT
    - COPYING THE AGC TIME CONSTANT CONFIGURATIONS
  - DISABLING THE AGC
- RX DSP EQUALIZER
- SWITCHING THE RX DSP EQUALIZER ON OR OFF
  - SELECTING THE EQUALIZER CHARACTERISTICS
  - Customizing the Equalizer
  - COPYING CUSTOMIZED EQUALIZER DATA
    - WRITING RX DSP EQUALIZER DATA TO A USB FLASH DRIVE
    - READING RX DSP EQUALIZER DATA FROM A USB FLASH DRIVE
- PREAMP
- RX MONITOR
- EMERGENCY CALL (K-TYPE ONLY)
- SWL MODE
  - SWITCHING THE BAND WHILE IN SWL MODE
- AUDIO SOURCE LINES FOR TX AUDIO
- DATA MODE CONFIGURATION
  - Transmission BY THE PTT SWITCH, SS PIN AND SEND
  - Transmission with Data PTT or Data Send
- RIT/XIT FUNCTIONS (FINE-TUNING FUNCTIONS FOR TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE FREQUENCIES)
  - RIT (FINE-TUNING OF RECEIVE FREQUENCIES)
  - XIT (FINE-TUNING OF TRANSMIT FREQUENCIES)
- CONFIGURING THE CARRIER LEVEL
- ADJUSTING THE MICROPHONE GAIN
- OPERATION IN CW MODE
- CW BREAK-IN
  - FULL BREAK-IN
  - SEMI BREAK-IN
- ADJUSTING THE SIDETONE AND PITCH FREQUENCY
  - ADJUSTING THE SIDETONE VOLUME
- CW RISE TIME
- AUTO ZERO-IN (CW AUTO TUNE)
- CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET WHEN CHANGING FROM SSB MODE TO CW MODE
- AUTOMATICALLY CHANGING MODE FROM SSB FOR CW TRANSMISSION
- ELECTRONIC KEYER
  - SELECTING THE KEYER TYPE FOR THE PADDLE JACK
  - SELECTING THE KEYER TYPE FOR THE KEY JACK
  - MICROPHONE PADDLE MODE
  - ADJUSTING THE KEYING SPEED
  - CHANGING THE WEIGHTING
  - WEIGHT Reverse
  - ReversING THE DOT AND DASH KEYING
  - OPERATING MODES OF ELECTRONIC KEYER
- CW Message Memory
  - CHANGING THE ENTRY METHOD OF CW MESSAGES
  - STORING CW MESSAGES WITH text entry
- PLAYING AND TRANSMITTING A CW MESSAGE
  - INTERRUPTING THE KEYING
  - DELETING CW MESSAGES
- ADJUSTING THE MICROPHONE GAIN FOR FM MODE OPERATION
- FM NARROW OPERATION
- REDUCING THE DEFLECTIONS OF THE S-Meter FOR USE IN FM-MODE
- FM REPEATER OPERATION
  - CONFIGURING THE TONE FREQUENCY
  - SELECTING THE TONE
    - USING THE SCAN TO SEARCH FOR THE TONE FREQUENCY
- CTCSS OPERATION (FM MODE)
  - CONFIGURING THE CTCSS TONE FREQUENCY
  - SELECTING THE CTCSS TONE
    - USING THE SCAN TO SEARCH FOR THE CTCSS TONE FREQUENCY
  - SELECTING THE CROSS TONE
- RTTY OPERATION
  - OPENING THE RTTY ENCODE/DECODE SCREEN
    - OPERATIONS ON THE RTTY ENCODE/DECODE SCREEN
- SELECTING MAIN BAND AND Sub band FOR RECEPTION (FSK)
- SAVING THE CONTENTS OF RTTY COMMUNICATION
  - SELECTING THE FILE FORMAT AT THE TIME OF SAVING DATA
- ADJUSTING THE RTTY THRESHOLD LEVEL OF RTTY DECODING
- DISPLAYING THE SCOPE TO CHECK RTTY TUNING
  - FFT SCOPE
  - AVERAGING THE WAVEFORM IN THE FFT SCOPE
  - WATERFALL
  - X-Y SCOPE (SUB-SCREEN)
- USING THE USB KEYBOARD TO TRANSMIT A text string
  - Transmitting the Entered Text String as Entered
    - STORING TEMPORARILY AND TRANSMITTING THE TEXT STRING IN THE BUFFER
- Utilizing an RTTY Message Memory
  - STORING MESSAGES
- CONFIGURING THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION FOR THE RTTY MESSAGE MEMORY
- CONFIGURING THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION USING THE RTTY MESSAGE MEMORY
- CONFIGURATION FOR RTTY ENCODING AND DECODING
  - Enabling the UOS (Unshift on Space)
  - CONFIGURING THE NEWLINE CODE
  - Diddle Operation
  - ENABLLING THE ENCODE UOS
    - SENDING THE NEWLINE CODE AT THE START AND END OF TRANSMISSION
  - DISPLAYING THE TIME STAMP
  - SELECTING THE TIMESTAMP TIME
- RTTY ParameterS
  - CONFIGURING THE MARK FREQUENCY
  - CONFIGURING THE RTTY SHIFT WIDTH
- ReversING THE FREQUENCY IN RTTY MODE
- CONFIGURING THE POLARITY FOR ACC 2 KEYING
- USING AN EXTERNAL DEVICE FOR RTTY MODE OPERATION
- AUDIO PEAK FILTER
- PSK OPERATION
- OPENING THE PSK ENCODE/DECODE SCREEN
- SELECTING MAIN BAND AND Sub band FOR RECEPTION (PSK)
- SAVING THE CONTENTS OF PSK COMMUNICATION
  - SELECTS THE FILE FORMAT AT THE TIME OF SAVING DATA
- ADJUSTING THE RTTY THRESHOLD LEVEL OF PSK DECODING
- DISPLAYING THE SCOPE TO CHECK PSK TUNING
  - FFT SCOPE
  - AVERAGING THE WAVEFORM IN THE FFT SCOPE
  - WATERFALL
  - VECTOR SCOPE (SUB-SCREEN)
- AFC (Automatic Frequency Control)
- CONFIGURING THE AFC TUNING RANGE
- NET
- SELECTING BPSK OR QPSK
- SELECTING PSK31 OR PSK63
- USING THE USB KEYBOARD TO TRANSMIT A text string
  - Transmitting the Entered Text String as Entered
    - TEMPORARILY STORING AND TRANSMITTING THE TEXT STRING IN THE BUFFER
- Utilizing an PSK Message Memory
  - STORING MESSAGES
    - CONFIGURING AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION FOR THE PSK MESSAGE MEMORY
    - SENDING A TEXT STRING STORED IN PSK MESSAGE MEMORY
- CONFIGURATION FOR PSK ENCODING AND DECODING
  - DISPLAYING THE TIME STAMP
  - SELECTING THE TIMESTAMP TIME
- PSK-RELATED CONFIGURATION
  - CONFIGURING THE PSK TONE FREQUENCY
    - ReverseING THE PHASE CHANGE DIRECTION IN QPSK
  - USING A PC TO COMMUNICATE IN PSK MODE
6 REJECTING INTERFERENCE
- ATTENUATOR (ATT)
- PRESELECTOR
- DSP FILTER
- CHANGING THE IF FILTER BANDWIDTH CHARACTERISTICS
- CHANGING THE AF FILTER TYPE
- CHANGING THE CUTOFF FREQUENCIES (LOW AND HIGH FREQUENCY) TO ADJUST THE PASSBAND WIDTH CHARACTERISTICS
- CHANGING THE PASSBAND WIDTH AND SHIFT TO ADJUST PASSBAND CHARACTERISTICS
- ACTIVATING AUDIO PEAK FILTER FOR USE IN CW MODE
- CHANGING THE PASSBAND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AUDIO PEAK FILTER (APF)
- SHIFTING THE PASSBAND OF THE AUDIO PEAK FILTER
- AUDIO PEAK FILTER WHILE IN FSK MODE
- NOISE BLANKER
- MANUAL NOTCH FILTER (SSB, CW, FSK, and PSK)
- Auto Notch Filter (SSB)
- BAND ELIMINATION FILTER
- NOISE REDUCTION
- BEAT CANCELLER (SSB, AM AND FM)
- DSP MONITOR
  - Assigning the DSP monitor to the PF key
    - Expanding the passband width of the filter using the DSP monitor
7 BANDSCOPE
- BANDSCOPE
- CHANGING THE ATTENUATOR FOR THE BANDSCOPE
- DISPLAYING THE TRANSMISSION SIGNAL WAVEFORM
8 AUDIO SCOPE
- DISPLAYING THE AUDIO SCOPE AND OSCILLOSCOPE
9 TRANSMIT FUNCTIONS
- SELECTING THE AUDIO LINE FOR TRANSMISSION
- SELECTING THE AUDIO SOURCE FOR TRANSMISSION BY SEND/PTT
  - SELECTING THE AUDIO SOURCE TRNASMISSION BY SEND/PTT
    - SELECTING THE AUDIO SOURCE FOR TRANSMISSION BY DATA SEND
- VOX (VOICE-OPERATED TRANSMIT)
- TX MONITOR
  - ADJUSTING THE TX MONITOR LEVEL
- SPEECH PROCESSOR
  - ADJUSTING THE SPEECH PROCESSOR OUTPUT LEVEL
    - ADJUSTING THE EFFECT OF THE SPEECH PROCESSOR
- TRANSMIT FILTER
- TX DSP EQUALIZER
  - SWITCHING THE TX DSP EQUALIZER ON OR OFF
    - SELECTING THE FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TX DSP EQUALIZER
  - ADJUSTING THE TX DSP EQUALIZER
- DISPLAYING THE SUBSCOPE DURING TX
- TX TUNING
  - ADJUSTING THE TRANSMIT POWER FOR TX TUNING
- TIME-OUT TIMER (TOT)
10 MEMORY CHANNELS
- MEMORY CHANNEL
  - DISPLAYING THE MEMORY CHANNEL LIST
- MEMORY CHANNEL MODE
  - OPERATING IN SINGLE-BAND MEMORY CHANNEL MODE
    - OPERATING IN DUAL-BAND MEMORY CHANNEL MODE
  - SELECTING A MEMORY CHANNEL
    - DIRECTLY ENTERING THE MEMORY CHANNEL NUMBER
- TEMPORARILY CHANGING THE OPERATING DATA
  - TEMPORARILY CHANGING FREQUENCY
- COPYING OPERATING DATA FROM THE MEMORY CHANNEL
  - MEMORY SHIFT (MEMORY TO VFO)
    - COPYING OPERATING DATA FROM ONE MEMORY CHANNEL TO ANOTHER MEMORY CHANNEL (CHANNEL TO CHANNEL)
- CONFIGURING THE PROGRAM SCAN FREQUENCY RANGE
- CLEARING THE MEMORY CHANNEL
- CONFIGURING NAMES FOR MEMORY CHANNELS
- QUICK MEMORY
- QUICK MEMORY CHANNELS
- CONFIGURING IN QUICK MEMORY
- RECALLING QUICK MEMORY CHANNELS
- CONFIGURING THE NUMBER OF QUICK MEMORY CHANNELS
- CLEARING QUICK MEMORY CHANNELS
  - MEMORY SHIFT (QUICK MEMORY TO VFO)
11 SCAN
- PROGRAM SCAN
- MEMORY SCAN
  - STARTING THE SCAN
    - EXAMPLES OF CONFIGURATIONS FOR THE ALL CHANNEL SCAN AND THE GROUP SCAN
  - LOCKING OUT A MEMORY CHANNEL
- QUICK MEMORY SCAN
- RESUMING THE SCANNING
12 ABOUT THE USB FLASH DRIVE
- ABOUT THE USB FLASH DRIVE
- FORMATTING A USB FLASH DRIVE
- SAFELY REMOVING THE USB FLASH DRIVE
- SAVING A FILE IN USB FLASH DRIVE
- READING A FILE FROM USB FLASH DRIVE
- DELETING A FILE FROM USB FLASH DRIVE
- CHANGING A FILE NAME IN THE USB FLASH DRIVE
13 VOICE MESSAGE AND AUDIO FILE
- RECORDING AND PLAYING VOICE MESSAGE
- FULL-TIME RECORDING
  - CONFIGURING THE MAXIMUM TIME FOR FULL-TIME RECORDING
  - SAVING AUDIO WITH FULL-TIME RECORDING
- PLAYING AN AUDIO FILE
  - ADJUSTING THE VOLUME OF VOICE MESSAGE
- AUDIO FILES
14 VOICE GUIDANCE
- VOICE GUIDANCE
15 CLOCK DISPLAY AND TIMER
- CONFIGURING THE DATE AND TIME
- CORRECTING THE CLOCK WITH NTP (NETWORK TIME PROTOCOL)
  - CONFIGURING THE NTP SERVER ADDRESS
    - ENABLING OR DISABLING THE AUTOMATIC TIME CORRECTION
  - MANUAL CLOCK CORRECTION
- TIMER
  - CONFIGURING THE PROGRAMMABLE TIMER
  - TEMPORARILY DISABLING THE TIMER TASK
- SLEEP TIMER
  - CONFIGURING THE SLEEP TIMER
  - DISABLING THE POWER-OFF BY THE SLEEP TIMER
- APO (AUTOMATIC POWER OFF)
16 USEFUL FUNCTIONS
- CONFIGURING THE POWER-ON MESSAGE
- CONFIGURING THE SCREEN SAVER
  - CONFIGURING THE SCREEN SAVER TYPE
- CONFIGURING THE SCREEN SAVER WAIT TIME
- CONFIGURING THE TEXT STRING FOR SCREEN SAVER
- TOUCHING THE SCREEN TO SELECT A FREQUENCY
  - TOUCHING THE SCREEN
  - CALIBRATING THE TOUCHSCREEN
- RESET
- SELECTING THE OPERATING BAND FOR THE HI/SHIFT LO/WIDTH CONTROLS
- CONFIGURING THE LENGTH OF TIME FOR KEY LONG PRESS
- ADJUSTING THE BEEP VOLUME
- MIXING THE BEEPS, ETC. TO THE RECEIVED AUDIO OUTPUT FROM THE Rear PANEL
- PF KEYS (PROGRAMMABLE FUNCTION KEYS)
  - ASSIGNING VARIOUS FUNCTIONS TO THE FRONT PANEL PF KEYS
    - ASSIGNING VARIOUS FUNCTIONS TO THE MICROPHONE PF KEYS
    - ASSIGNING VARIOUS FUNCTIONS TO THE EXTERNAL PF KEYS
- PC CONTROL
  - SELECTING THE BAUD RATE OF THE COM/USB (REAR PANEL) PORT
- CONFIGURING THE USB KEYBOARD
  - SELECTING THE LANGUAGE FOR THE USB KEYBOARD
  - CONFIGURING THE KEY REPEAT DELAY TIME
  - CONFIGURING THE KEYING SPEED
    - ENABLING USING USB KEYBOARD TO SEND A MESSAGE
- CAPTURING AND SAVING SCREEN IMAGES
- CONFIGURING THE NETWORK
  - CONFIGURING THE IP NETWORK
  - CHECKING THE MAC ADDRESS
  - CONFIGURING THE NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR
- CONFIGURING THE OUTPUT TO AN EXTERNAL METER
  - SELECTING THE OUTPUT SIGNAL TYPE OF THE MAIN BAND FOR AN EXTERNAL METER
    - SELECTING THE OUTPUT SIGNAL TYPE OF THE Sub band FOR AN EXTERNAL METER
    - SETTING THE OUTPUT LEVEL OF AN EXTERNAL METER
- SELECTING THE OUTPUT SIGNAL OF AN EXTERNAL SPEAKER
- DISPLAYING THE MAIN SCREEN CONTENTS ON AN EXTERNAL MONITOR
- CONFIGURING THE RESOLUTION OF THE EXTERNAL MONITOR
- CONFIGURING THE I/O SIGNALS FOR THE OPTICAL DIGITAL CONNECTOR
  - CONFIGURING THE INPUT AUDIO LEVEL
  - CONFIGURING THE OUTPUT AUDIO LEVEL
    - Selecting the Audio Output Format FROM OPTICAL OUT Connector
- CONFIGURING THE I/O SIGNALS FOR THE ACC 2 CONNECTOR
  - CONFIGURING THE INPUT AUDIO LEVEL
  - CONFIGURING THE OUTPUT AUDIO LEVEL
    - Selecting the Audio Output Format FROM ACC 2 Connector
- CONFIGURING THE I/O SIGNALS FOR THE USB CONNECTOR
  - CONFIGURING THE INPUT AUDIO LEVEL
  - CONFIGURING THE OUTPUT AUDIO LEVEL
    - Selecting the Audio Output Format FROM USB Connector
- CONFIGURING THE REF I/O CONNECTOR
- CONFIGURING FOR THE ROOOFING FILTER ADDED BY YOU (MAIN BAND ONLY)
  - CONFIGURING THE PASSBAND WIDTH
  - CONFIGURING THE ATTENUATION
- OPERATING THE TRANSCEIVER FOR A VOIP AMATEUR RADIO STATION
  - CHANGING THE CTCSS MUTE
- CONFIGURING THE SQL CONTROL SIGNAL
  - SELECTING THE MSQ/SSQ LOGIC
  - CONFIGURING THE MSQ/SSQ OUTPUT CONDITIONS
    - SWITCHING THE COM CONNECTOR PIN ARRANGEMENT
- QUICK DATA TRANSFER
  - TRANSFERRING THE OPERATING DATA TO THE SLAVE TRANSCEIVER
    - RECEIVING THE OPERATING DATA FROM THE MASTER TRANSCEIVER
  - INHIBITING TRANSMISSION
- DX PACKETCLUSTER TUNE
  - CONFIGURING THE TRANSCEIVER
    - RECEIVING DX PACKETCLUSTER DATA USING THE CONNECTED TRANSCEIVER
- CONTROLLING EXTERNAL EQUIPMENT
  - INHIBITING THE TRANSMISSION DURING BUSY (SQUELCH OPENING)
  - REVERSING THE PKS SIGNAL POLARITY
- CROSSBAND REPEATER
  - PREPARATION
  - OPERATION
- SKY COMMAND SYSTEM II
  - PREPARATION
    - TS-990S + TH-D72A/E, TM-D710A/E or TM-D700A (G) (Transporter) Configuration
- CONTROLLING THE LINEAR AMPLIFIER
  - CONTROLLING THE LINEAR AMPLIFIER FOR OPERATION IN THE HF BAND
  - CONTROLLING THE LINEAR AMPLIFIER AT 50 MHz
- OPERATING THE TRANSCEIVER AS AN EXCITER OF THE TRNASVERTER
  - CONNECTING THE TRANSVERTER TO THE Transceiver
17 FIRMWARE UPDATING
- ABOUT FIRMWARE UPDATING
- UPDATING THE FIRMWARE
- VERIFYING THE FIRMWARE VERSION
- FIRMWARE UPDATING WITH A PC CONNECTED
  - PREPARATION
    - YOUR OPERATION FOR THE TRANSCEIVER AND YOUR PC
- FIRMWARE UPDATING USING A USB FLASH DRIVE
  - PREPARATION
    - YOUR OPERATION FOR THE TRANSCEIVER AND YOUR PC
18 TROUBLESHOOTING
- CALIBRATING THE INTERNAL REFERENCE FREQUENCY
  - CALIBRATION PROCEDURE
- RESETTING ALL CONFIGURATIONS
- REPLACING THE FUSE FOR AN EXTERNAL ANTENNA TUNER
  - HOW TO REPLACE THE FUSE
- NOTICE CONCERNING INTERNAL BEAT
- SPURIOUS ON THE BANDSCOPE (WATERFALL)
  - THE LIST OF ERROR MESSAGES
  - THE LIST OF WARNING MESSAGES
- TROUBLESHOOTING
19 MISCELLANEOUS
- PRIME OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES
- DEDICATED APPLICATIONS
- PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
- Index