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Yaesu FT-450 User Manual

Manual is about: HF/50 MHz transceiver

Summary of FT-450

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    Yaesu ft-450 ft-450at users manual 18 august 2013.

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - i - table of contents 1 general ..................................................................................................................................... 1 2 controls .........................................................................

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - ii - 5.8 programmable memory scanning ......................................................................................16 6 system controls ...........................................................................................................

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 1 - 1 general the yaesu ft-450 hf/50 mhz transceiver is designed for amateur radio use. It provides a general-purpose receiver covering 30 khz through 56 mhz. The transceiver range is broken into 10 amateur radio bands and 1 general purpose band to ...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 2 - control act state function on/off t-press - toggle system on/off dsp press - step dsp contour, notch, digital noise reduc, width, off press - step through combinations of att and ipo off and on att/ipo t-press cw voice tone to compare with cw to...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 3 - control act state function not squelch analog setting of radio frequency gain sql/rf gain turn squelch analog setting of squelch level af gain turn - analog setting of audio frequency gain f announce the frequency and mode in voice to operator, ...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 4 - 4) turning the power on while holding the “mode▼” button will display the current software version. You must then turn the power off and then on to resume normal operation. 3 receiver the transceiver provides both a multi-band sensitive receiver...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 5 - band range amateur radio band 18 mhz 30 khz ~ 33 mhz 18.068 mhz ~ 18.168 mhz 21 mhz 30 khz ~ 33 mhz 21 mhz ~21.45 mhz 24 mhz 30 khz ~ 33 mhz 24.89 mhz ~ 24.99 mhz 28 mhz 30 khz ~ 33 mhz 28 mhz ~ 29.7 mhz 50 mhz 33 mhz ~ 56 mhz 50 mhz ~ 54 mhz ta...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 6 - above the right end of the frequency display. The frequency lock may be released by pressing “lock” again. In addition to the display, the ft-450 is able to announce the current frequency through the speaker or headset. To hear the frequency, f-...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 7 - 3.4 extracting the signal from the noise every stage of the ft-450 transceiver contributes to the effort to improve the signal to noise ratio. In order to deal with the wide dynamic range of input signals, the operator may optionally insert 20 d...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 8 - graph on the left side of the display. Repeated press of the “dsp” button will move the “>” sign down to the notch graph, then to the dnr graph, then to the width, and finally to remove the “>” sign. While the “>” sign is displayed and if m-tune...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 9 - depends on the communications mode as shown in table 6. Mode narrow nominal wide cw, data 500 hz 1.8 khz 2.4 khz usb, lsb 1.8 khz 2.4 khz 3.0 khz am 3.0 khz 6.0 khz 9.0 khz fm 2.5 khz 5.0 khz --------- table 6 – band width filter settings 3.4.3....

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 10 - the ft-450 attempts to maintain a constant audio level (assuming the signal is strong enough). In general, we want the automatic gain control (agc) to respond quickly during cw or data transmissions. However, when speech is involved we want the...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 11 - addition, if cw mode, the display also shows whether the injected beat frequency is lsb or usb. When the automatic antenna tuner is engaged, the tuner indicator is lighted. As long as the system is receiving (or squelch is open) the busy indica...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 12 - 4.3 automatic antenna tuner the built in automatic antenna tuner will match the output through a 50 ohm line if the swr of the antenna without the tuner is 3:1 or less. The antenna tuner is toggled on or off by pressing the “tune○” button locat...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 13 - operating mode operating frequency attenuation status ipo (preamplifier) status contour setting dsp notch filter (notch) setting dsp noise reduction (dnr) setting dnr reduction algorithm setting bandwidth setting repeater shift setting ctcss to...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 14 - 2) if the primary vfo is m-tune and you press the “a / b” button, the contents of the primary vfo are swapped with the contents of the secondary vfo. 3) if the primary vfo is one of the memory channels, then the contents of the secondary vfo ar...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 15 - 5.6 channels memories see table 7 for channel designation. 5.6.1 recall simply press the “mw/v/m” button and then select the desired active channel with the “dsp/sel” knob. If memory groups is adapted on, pressing the “dsp/sel” knob highlights ...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 16 - 5.7 vfo memory scanning scan initiates upward scanning of vfo frequencies or mem0ry chan 5.8 programmable memory scanning 6 system controls 6.1 display brightness the display brightness may be set to one of 5 levels, 0 through 4. F-press the “m...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 17 - vm1rec store the voice message in voice memory 1 vm1tx transmit the voice message in voice memory 1 vm2moni play back message in voice memory 2 vm2rec store the voice message in voice memory 2 vm2tx transmit the voice message in voice memory 2 ...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 18 - name button function mtr mtr/dim change the meter function in the transmit mode rcl rcl recall the quick memory bank memory table 11 – 22 duplicate button functions name dial function down dsp/sel to left decreases the vfo frequency or memory s...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 19 - id name function default values 010 catrate cat baud rate 4800 4.8, 9.6, 19.2, 38.4 khz 011 clar clear dial/sel dial dial / sel 012 clk sft clock shift off on / off 013* cont disp contrast 24 1 ~ 24 014 cw auto cw auto mode off on / off 015 cw ...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 20 - id name function default values 059 stby bp standby beep off on / off 060 tone f tone freq 88.5 hz see table 14 ( 67 ~ 254.1 hz) 061 tot turn off time off off, 1 ~ 20 minutes 062* tuner tuner / atas int atu atas. Ext atu, int atu 063 vox dly vo...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 21 - scn res – default 5 seconds out of 1 ~ 10 seconds in 1 second increments sets the delay time after signal lost before scan resumes. Stby bp – default off out of on or off transmit a beep at end to inform the receiving station that your transmis...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 22 - for panel – dsp, att/ipo, nb, agc, meter, mode, keyer, clar, and step for all – dsp, att/ipo, nb, agc, mode, keyer, clar, vox, step, the c.S functions moni, n/a, p/b, play1, play2, play3, swr, vcc, qspl, dwn, fast, and up, and the microphone bu...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 23 - receiver recovery time with semi-break-in operation. Cw key – default nor out of nor or rev keyer wiring configuration. In nor, the plug tip produces dots and the plug ring produces dashes. In rev, the plug tip produces dashes and the plug ring...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 24 - 7.5 adaptation to exclude bands and modes my band, my mode - defaults on (all bands and modes) out of off or on to enable or disable the 10 bands shown in table 3 (gen stays on) or the 6 modes shown in table 2, we insert a step in standard adap...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 25 - 7.8 adaptation of data communication d disp – default 0 hz out of -3000 ~ +3000 hz data mode operation display offset for user-l or user-u. D type – default rtty out of rtty, user-l, or user-u define data mode. Dig vox – default off out of off ...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 26 - 1) set theshift, att, ipo, rf gain and af gain as shown in section 8, 2) select the band, 3) set the mode as cw, 4) turn the keyer on, 5) turn bk-in on, 6) set the dsp parameters the way you think you want them, and 7) select a good starting fr...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 27 - 9) save this setting in the channel memory and remember where you put it. You are now ready to go. Either dial in the frequency you want to initiate communications or dial to look for someone calling. Then next time you want to start up on the ...

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    Yaesu hf/50 mhz transceiver ft-450 user’s manual - 28 - 9 acronym glossary agc automatic gain control af audio frequency am amplitude modulation att attenuation cat computer aided transceiver cpu computer processor unit ctcss continuous tone-coded squelch system cw continuous wave dnr digital noise ...