[1000mp] FT-1000MP Tip of the Month - Scanning Between Frequencies - Repost

[WD8ARZ]

It has been a long while since I reposted this message, and maybe it applies
to the current discussion about memories in the MP. Hope it helps out.

73 from Bill - WD8ARZ

----- Original Message -----
From: "WD8ARZ" <wd8arz@null.net>
To: <1000mp@jehosophat.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 1998 10:41
Subject: FT-1000MP Tip of the Month - Scanning Between Frequencies

There are many interesting features on the FT-1000MP, and many of them are
explained well in the owners manual...... but not all of them. The situation
I am about to describe will be found in new FT-1000MP's and those that have
had the memory reset.

On page 47 of the owners manual, Memory Features are explained. The chart
shows the standard 100 memories, the Quick Memory Bank, and the scanning
memories P1-P9. Page 51 covers the Scanning Features, and the bottom left of
page 52 starts the interesting section, scanning between frequencies.

I followed the instructions time after time and could not get it work.....
in fact I could not even get the P1-P9 memory selections to even display or
to pull up at all....so how could I put information into them? I was about
to reset my entire rig and try again but I decided to read the manual again
looking for something I had missed.

Yes I did miss something, a Note on page 49 that affected what I was trying
to do on page 52.  The note says: "When checking memories, both vacant and
filled memories are displayed. If you would like to skip over vacant
memories, press the FAST button before memory checking."

Well, I dont know about you, but my Fast button is normally activated for
most of my tuning around on the bands. Never having used the P1-P9 memories
before meant that they were vacant........thus they were not displaying when
I was trying to select them with the Mem/Vfo Ch knob! When I turned off the
Fast button option, yep, there were the empty P1-P9 memories and now I could
program them and use them. Ugh, it should not have been this hard to figure
that out.... hi hi

Also note that the reason this did not jump out at me before is that I had
tested a MP software program to copy my memory frequencies to a computer
file and back again. That process took all the empty memory channels and put
in a default of 7.000.00 in all empty locations. Thus the Fast button
activation did not have any blank memories to mask.......other than the
P1-P9 memories. This is one of the reasons why I think programs should have
the option to leave empty memories truly blank if they are empty and not put
in some default value.

So now we all know this little nugget of information, what inside tips do
you have to share with us?

73 from Bill - WD8ARZ