[1000mp] Firmware turns Clarifier off

[Pete Smith]

At 07:32 AM 2/1/04 -0500, Bill Tippett wrote:
>        The way I really preferred to run with my MP was to put TX on
>the Sub VFO, lock it there, and then use the large Main VFO knob to
>RX on my run frequency.  The problem comes about when you try to
>use both large knobs for RX (Main for run, Sub for S&P).  I never found
>a way to do that in the MP without using CLAR.  If you have, I'm all
>ears and stand corrected.  I have big hands and simply hate using
>the little CLAR knob when that big Main knob is sitting there unused.
>
>         This would be such a simple firmware change, I'm amazed Yaesu
>never considered it for the later Mark V versions...of course they
>didn't fix their clicks or IF hiss in those either.

I don't particularly love the size of the Clarifier knob, but the thing 
that is really annoying about the Mark V's firmware is that any time the 
radio is commanded to change frequencies or bands, the firmware turns off 
the clarifier.  Try finding that tiny Clarifier On button when you really, 
really need to tune off your run frequency.  I may have to go with Bill's 
work-around unless the software guys figure this one out.  Too bad, too, 
because I really like having the software zero the RIT after each run QSO, 
to improve my chances of hearing a caller out on the opposite side of 
zero-beat from where I just was.  Maybe the software could just be taught 
to do an A=B instead of ClearRIT.

By the way, does this happen on the straight MPs too?  The D's?


73, Pete N4ZR
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