[Yaesu] Scanning Memories - Tip by WD8ARZ

[WD8ARZ]

*Scanning Memories - Tip by WD8ARZ*

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.

73 from Bill - WD8ARZ
South Bend, Indiana