[WriteLog] PTT with radio control of Mark V

[Jerry Pixton]

All FT1000mp owners,

I got all excited, for an old man, when I read this yesterday. Pulled all 
my extra PTT cables off the FT1000mp so that I could just command PTT by 
CAT when sending CW. I use the W5XD keyer to the rear key jack and thus do 
not use the internal keyer. This keyer delay does not affect anything going 
on via the external key jack. The same software bug still is there. And I 
suspect that it got propagated to the Mark V. How unfortunate. I guess 
Yaesu engineers do not use their own radios. The PTT is still being dropped 
by the radio after the first dit.

So I guess we still have to use an external PTT line in parallel with what 
is being commanded via the CAT. The  PTT line on the new W5XD keyer which 
handles switching the PTT line from a footswitch seems to also get PTT 
asserted on it during cw. Nice. Solving the footswitch also solves the cw 
PTT issue

Jerry, W6IHG



At 07:28 PM 7/24/2002 +0200, Guido Tedeschi wrote:
>Thanks for the answer dear Rajiv, but we do not use the VOX, so the delay is
>not useful for us.
>What we need is that the radio switches to TX with a CAT command and returns
>to RX with another command.
>This happens in SSB or in CW without keying, but, when the first dot or dash
>is sent, the radio returns to RX.
>This is the issue...
>Thanks and 73
>Guido, ik2bcp / iu2r / ab9dg
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rajiv Dewan, N2RD" <n2rd@arrl.net>
>To: "Guido Tedeschi" <guido.ted@tin.it>
>Cc: <WriteLog@contesting.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:35 AM
>Subject: Re: [WriteLog] PTT with radio control of Mark V
>
>
> > This may be easy to fix.
> >
> > You may need to change the keyer hang time delay for CW.
> >
> > If the Mk V is anything like a regular MP this easily accomplished by
> > changing a
> > setup menu entry on the rig.  On the regular MP it is menu item 7-5
> > "keyer delay" which specifies the PTT hang time for CW.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Regards,
> > - -
> > Rajiv Dewan, N2RD
>
>
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