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1. Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AG Slow hold p SLOW mode ct the Main band VFO A receiver bLi Cool Blue Selects the Display color when the optional Data DISPLAY Management Unit DMU 2000 is connected Display color bL1i Cool Blue Setting of the meter brightness level when DIM is Meter Dimmer Here you have the list of all the 149 menus available in the rig AUTO DOWNLOAD If Auto Download is checked aS soon as you enter into the Menu read tab the program will download the current menu list from the rig If you uncheck it then you can press the Download button to update your menu list DOWNLOAD Download Each time you press the download button the program will download from the rig the entire list of the menu setting Page 70 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 RTX VAL Interpreted Normally you should have this flag checked If RTX Val Interpreted in checked then the values received from the rig are converted into human readable information For example menu 144 in the column RTX Values is set to 100 w options are 10 20 50 100 w Download Menu Num Group Function Description Aval Values RTX Values ar out Maximum 10 20 50 144 7 GENERAL a power Selects a maximum output power limit 100 E a 100 W ine W Limit If we download the list with RTX Val Interpreted unchecked we will have the exact value the rig responded to that quer
2. A i Soj ii 5 u Note that when you switch to TX mode the graphic will display the power output of your rig with yellow lines Page 45 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 DISPLAY frame Bipa You can also add in superimpose the reading of the absolute value as received from the rig mainly for debug purpose In the following 66 192 60 and 23 are the number received form the rig scale from O to 255 Vii Se ee 23 aes If you press Percentage you can display that numbers as a percentage of the max value RX frame wh Pann Here you can see the Main and the Sub RX S meter reading Again you can switch it on or off and you can add Absolute or percentage values ANALOG METER frame Analog meter Analogue meter display S signal or Pwr output in an analogue fashion Page 46 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 SIGNAL frame The S signal on the analogue meters can be of the main receiver or from the sub receiver Just select which receiver to display using the button in the Signal frame ANALOG Type frame Analog Type Meterl Two type of analogue meters are available Type 2 has a different look and a programmable peak hold feature Analog meter Analog Type Wleteri You can set to have a second gauge to display the peak and decide how many milliseconds to hold it RTX METER Switch frame Rik meter switch CMP ALC PO If you don
3. International Simplex 10m frame nternatic onal simi iple ex 10 m FM Calling Click FM Calling to switch your rig to 29 600 MHz Fm mode simple no shift This frequency is usually called as the international fm calling frequency Procedure report to call or listen here contact the station move to a different channel to continue finish the QSO 10m FM Channel frame 10 m Fm Chan This knob tune the VFO A Fm Simplex from 29 500 to 29 690 MHz using 10 KHz steps 20 channels Page 63 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 10m FM band ch scan frame 10 m Fm band ch scan Start Scan Stop scan Scan rate Fast Delay sec SS t You can use this panel to scan the 29 MHz fm band segment for signals First set the Squelch level then click Start Scan Your RX will start from 29 500 and scan up to 29 690 fm simplex If a signal is found squelch open then the scan is paused for the amount of time specified in the Delay Sec frame 5 15 30 60 seconds then the scan will resume Status at a glance TX fAlhz OFFSET O SHIFT Simplex CTCSS Enc OFT Bec Off TONE ee Hz BEV 450 E 10m Fm band ch scan Scan rate Fast Slow Eiasnsnnnnn O Delay sec aT E E a m te Press Stop Scan to abort scanning 6m Shift frame 6m Shift The amount of Shift for 50 MHz band typically for repeater access can be set using this fader 6m
4. Minimum connections are 1 pin 2 connected to pin 2 this is the received data 2 pin 3 connected to pin 3 this is the transmitted data 3 pin 5 connected to pin 5 this can be the shield ground signal With this cable you must use handshake off with MC On the rig switch OFF the RTS menu Page 3 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Recommended connections are pin 2 connected to pin 2 this is the received data pin 3 connected to pin 3 this is the transmitted data pin 5 connected to pin 5 ground signal pin 7 connected to pin 7 this is the request to send for handshake pin 8 connected to pin 8 this is the clear to send for handshake Se a N E Shield wire can be connected to the shield of the connectors ELLIE eecce With this cable you can set recommended Handshake ON into MC serial protocol frame and set the FT 2000 CAT RTS to ON This will allow you to run at 38400 bps without any communication error you must use this type of cable also to run pcc2000 and to do firmware DSP upgrade This pin to pin cable then needs to be connected to the CAT port on the back of the rig and on the COM port of the computer For this purpose no other cables are required No interface is needed the FT 2000 D rig use standard RS232 levels Optional you may clamp on a couple of ferrite beads just to avoid RFI Page 4 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 AWH DSP Audio needs optional If you plan to
5. RF GAIN frame GAIN This fader is the Main receiver RF Gain adjustment DNR frame ATTAT DNR Press DNR button to activate the RX DSP dynamic noise reduction system Once enabled you can move the fader to select one of the fifteen available algorithms NB frame Press NB to enable or disable the Noise Blanker circuit Once enabled the fader allow to set the NB threshold The upper button allows to switch from Wide to Narrow kind of NB Page 33 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 AUDIO frame m i z 4 J E _ AF gain AF GAIN This fader set the AF level of the Main VFO A receiver Press AF Gain button to mute the audio output Press it again to restore the audio output to the same level it was before RX SETTI NG memory frame Rx setting memory 4 Recall AF Here you can store your RX setting done from this tab Almost anything will be store IF Shift IF Width Contour frequency Contour gain Contour bandwidth DNR type and level NB type and level and so on will all be stored in one setting Four setting are available Press Store A Store D to store your RX RTX configuration Load A Load D will recall with one button all the stored parameters As an example this may be very useful when you have several station to receive on a frequency and each station require a different setup to better achieve the readability for example you m
6. RTX FILTERS DISPLAY Here we will see how the rig IF Notch and Contour is displayed on the spectrum scope and how to use the cw features OK adjust the AWH MC and DSP windows so you can see the scopes and go to RX F3 tab of MC Example AWH DSP has been positioned beyond and up to MC form let Awh MEDSE oe lo penal BF Spectrum BF Waterfall 00 Ca eon SOUTCES a AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 Dial 1 Tx 2 Rx f3 Cw f Meters 5 Panoramic f6 General f7 DigSet 8 Fm 9 Swr 10 Menu read 11 Utility 12 FT 2000 com HotKeys Term a IF filter controls 114 155 9959 7 a o e TITTI 8 j a 3 See ee ge ER in KAIAN X a CW APF Rx Amp Att Rx setting memory _ lt gt ecaa z Recall AF Page 122 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Now while you stay here in the RX tab switch ON then IF button in the DSP display frame DSP display NOTCH You will see a new superimposed drawing in the Spectrum display This area is the area where your FT 2000 IF filters is set right now You can easy see that the IF ts cutting signals below 100 Hz and above 2900 Hz approximately BF Spectrum BF Waterfall Now move the MC IF Width control a littke bit on the left and then move the MC IF Shift control almost all to the left and see the Spectrum on AWH DSP The picture should be similar to the following where you can see very well the c
7. Want to know when you rig has been built Ok look at your rig serial number Type it in the text box Click Decode and read the text message RTX Restore factory default frame SE RTX Restore factory detautt Im totally lost If for any reason you think you don t understand what s changed in your rig and you don t have any backup saved of your setting you have two ways a Do a full reset on the rig power on with Fast Lock pressed b Load rig defaults all the 149 defaults menu from this button The second solution is less invasive you will not erase your ATU memories your voice memories your memory channels IARU Region frame S IARU region Select the corresponding region where you live This will try to load the bands limits into MC QUIT frame POWER OFF EXIT Exit will close the program POWER OFF Power OFF will switch off your rig and close the program CONFI RM If you disable confirm exit you will avoid the conformation when you close MC Closing application Page 83 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 INFO frame RELEASE Click release Notes to open the text file of the release notes WEB Click WEB to visit iwlawh homepage LOG Click View Log to open the connection log this is generally useful for start up troubleshooting issue P MC _log txt Blocco note File Modifica Formato Visualizza FT 2000 PEP Port Name gt COML Is Open True
8. It s totally freeware The only thing to remember is that it s still a beta version mean that it may have some bug If you find problems don t get upset report them Hardware requirements Personal Computer e Cpu at least 1 8 GHZ clock 2 4 Ghz recommended e Ram at least 512 Mb 1 Gb recommended e Hard disk at least 23 MB free space for MC e Video at least 1024x768 resolution e Port one serial port or a USB port with a USB to rs232 adapter e Audio one soundboard for Pc optional e Audio one interface with a soundcard for RTX optional but needed by DSP Note Physical RS232 serial port works always without any problem USB adapters may not always works very well It s important that the USB adapter has the true RS levels and that manage the ancillary data lines Also it s really important to have good drivers to install for your operating system from the supplier or form his web site Page 2 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 RTX e Yaesu FT 2000 or FT 2000D with the latest firmware 1 5 or above Cable You need a PIN TO PIN straight RS232 serial cable Do not use null modem cable crossed 5 i E LLLI Pe RS232 Usb If you don t have a pin to pin cable it s very easy to build it You only need e 2 Canon d sub 9 pin female connector e xx feet of wire at least two wire plus shield 5 conductor plus shield is the best e Soldering station e 5 minutes of free time
9. RSO 5 set VFO A to 50 760 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 51 260 RSO 6 set VFO A to 50 770 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 51 270 RSO 7 set VFO A to 50 780 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 51 280 RSO 8 set VFO A to 50 790 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 51 290 RSO 9 set VFO A to 50 800 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 51 300 RSO 10 set VFO A to 50 810 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 51 310 RSO 11 set VFO A to 50 820 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 51 320 RSO 12 set VFO A to 50 830 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 51 330 RSO 13 set VFO A to 50 840 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 51 340 RSO 14 set VFO A to 50 850 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 51 350 RSO 15 set VFO A to 50 860 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 51 360 When region is set to USA1 then you have RSO 1 set VFO A to 50 620 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 50 120 RSO 2 set VFO A to 50 630 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 50 130 RSO 3 set VFO A to 50 640 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 50 140 RSO 4 set VFO A to 50 650 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 50 150 RSO 5 set VFO A to 50 660 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 160 RSO 6 set VFO A to 50 670 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 170 RSO 7 set VFO A to 50 680 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 180 RSO 8 set VFO A to 50 690 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 190 RSO 9 set VFO A to 50 700 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 200 RSO 10 set VFO A to 50 710 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 210 RSO 11 set VFO A to 50 720 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 220 RSO 12 set VFO A to 50 730 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 230 RSO 13 set VFO A to 50 740 Fm mode Shift 100 TX
10. When Mic Equalizer is ON then all the nine faders and the display are assigned to the microphone equalizer the small display will show you the curves of the processor equalizer Proc Equalizer When Proc Equalizer is ON then all the nine faders and the display are assigned to the processor equalizer the small display will show you the curves of the mic equalizer EQUALIZER Reset frame Mic Equ Off Click on Mic Equ Off to reset all the parameters of the Mic Equalizer Proc Equ Off Click on Proc Equ Off to reset all the parameters of the Processor Equalizer Note when you set to zero the Mic equalizer also the speech processor equalizer will be deactivated by Yaesu design Click Proc Equ Off and Mic Equ Off to reset and disable all the settings Page 26 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 FREQUENCY frame Frequency c 4d r Main VFO A frequency display VOICE Keyer frame This is the panel to manage the rig Voice Keyer REC To record a message in one of the memory of the rig voice keyer set the mic gain level near the maximum fully clockwise then press Recl Rec5 then reset the mic level at the right position DV MEM Click on DV Mem1 DV Mem5 to playback any recorded voice message in the rig If you want to TX your voice message do not forget to enable Break In clicking on the corresponding button TX Level TX Level fader allows you to set the right modulation level MON Level Adj
11. You can have any of the five available set to Typel or Type2 indifferently Typel memory are text memory loaded from pc or with the VFO knob and the menus Type2 memory are message memory loaded with the paddles Each type is then assigned to one of the function buttons on the rig F1 to F5 See FT 2000 user manual for more details Page 38 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 INPUT MODE frame TEXT If Text is selected you can write your text message in the Keyer text input panel and then transfer to the rig the text MESSAGE If Message is selected then you must load your memory with paddles connected to the rig The keyer text panel will be disabled XX SNN SNN TH SNN SNN PS You can click on Store Rtx1 Store RTX 4 to start learning from the paddles the message that you want to store Once you finished the message with the paddles then click in End Store button and you message will be ready on that memory BEACON Mode frame Beacon mode Set the number of seconds before to wait before a CW beacon message will be transmitted Page 39 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 CONTEST Prog frame Set the initial contest progressive number KEYER TYPE frame Brea k Ih Full Ereak iR BREAK IN You can enable Break in pressing Break In button FULL BREAK IN You can cycle from Full to Semi break in pressing the Full Break in button KEYER Keyer button enable or disable the rig keyer MO
12. t want to use the meter rotary switch on the rig you can remotely change what the rig analogue meter is displaying Using the six buttons panel you can decide that your analogue meter on the rig will measure Compression level ALC reading Power Output SWR Id current Vd voltage FREQUENCY frame 44 198 07 This is the indication of the VFO A frequency Page 47 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 PANORAMIC TAB F6 l AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 use Main Rx use Sub Rx This tab allows you to do a band scan SCAN Band frame 10a 10b Click on the button of the band that you want to scan or click CUST to set your custom start and end point If you enable CUST then you must populate the custom band setting CUSTOM Band fame Custo mi Band 1 Mhz MHz Start KHz 000 2 Stop KHz ae When CUST has been enabled the select the Band MHz on the left box using up or down buttons If your rig is already on the frequency that you want to start scanning then press the lt lt button at the right of MHz frame Then set the start KHz using up or down or if your rig is at the starting frequency click then click lt lt Then set the stop KHz using up or down or tune the rig to the end point and then click lt lt Once you set the band or the custom parameters we can decide which step size to use Page 48 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 SCAN Step frame Scan Step Hz Here you
13. then 2 and finally on ENT Your VFO A will dial to 14 200 00 L4 2000U0 Example Click B On the keyboard numeric pad type 07156 and then ENTER on the keyboard numeric keypad Your VFO B will dial at 07 156 00 dialed L560 DIALED frame This is the frame where we see the digits during dial of the frequency We can use it also as another dialling option Click on the numeric are and delete all number if any Now type on the keyboard on the number not in the numeric keypad use the number near the top row of the keyboard For example start typing 212 Then press ENTER on the Keyboard The selected VFO will tune to 21 200 00 dinen 212000 Page 16 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 VFO Digit Inc Dec frame Click on each or to increase or decrease the corresponding digit When A is highlighted all the operation will be addressed to VFO A When B is highlighted all the operation will be addressed to VFO B If both A and B are highlighted then the increment and decrement will be applied to both VFOs offset is maintained FREQUENCY frame Frequency L4 cUU U0 Here you have the VFO A frequency displayed on top and VFO B frequency displayed below If you click with the left button of the mouse within the VFO A display and then you rotate the mouse wheel you will be able to tune up and down the frequency of the main VFO If FAST is engaged the scroll will be faste
14. 2003 Release Notes Here we can store and reload some setting of the rig and of the program RTX Setting frame Upload This buttons allows you to save and restore all the 149 menu setting of your rig useful when you want to do a firmware update DOWNLOAD Click Download to read the setting from the rig and save it to a disk file Procedure is very straight Click Download wait until finished progress bar will shows you the download When to save file dialog appear give a name to the setting you are storing 78 Saha g Gy Document artim Ty f gt p iesta Studa j a Daage iv Loe bal Musca ayy deve HED Woche fry ah Click Save Page 5 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 The file is a simple text file If you double click it you can open and inspect it i Aw C Setting tat 6 Ele Mexifica Formato jausita 2 anhmC 40 SET FT 2000 PEP setting of 14 06 2010 12 21 32 UPLOAD If you want to reload all of your 149 setting into the rig for example after a firmware update or to load your setting into the rig in your club station just click Upload Navigate with the file dialog to point to the saves file and select it E wher Settee tt Click OPEN A message box will appear UPLOAD to RTX Send FT 2000 PEP setting of 14 06 2010 12 21 32 to RTX Click YES to continue and send the setting to the rig Wait until the progress bar reach the end DONE al
15. 51 240 RSO 14 set VFO A to 50 750 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 250 RSO 15 set VFO A to 50 760 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 260 RSO 16 set VFO A to 50 770 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 270 RSO 17 set VFO A to 50 780 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 280 RSO 18 set VFO A to 50 790 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 290 RSO 19 set VFO A to 50 800 Fm mode Shift 100 TX 51 300 When region is set to USA2 then you have RSO 1 set VFO A to 52 500 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 000 RSO 2 set VFO A to 52 560 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 060 RSO 3 set VFO A to 52 580 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 080 RSO 4 set VFO A to 52 600 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 100 RSO 5 set VFO A to 52 620 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 120 RSO 6 set VFO A to 52 640 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 140 RSO 7 set VFO A to 52 660 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 160 RSO 8 set VFO A to 52 680 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 180 RSO 9 set VFO A to 52 700 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 200 RSO 10 set VFO A to 52 720 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 220 RSO 11 set VFO A to 52 740 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 240 RSO 12 set VFO A to 52 760 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 260 RSO 13 set VFO A to 52 780 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 280 RSO 14 set VFO A to 52 800 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 300 RSO 15 set VFO A to 52 820 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 320 Page 65 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 RSO 16 set V
16. BF Spectrum BF Waterfall Setup Sources Scopes Filters PlayRec System In Page 97 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 DETAILS button Teme If you want to see more details regarding the audio connection from pc to the rig you may click on the button DETAILS Two picture will popup Connection diagram oe y l aias diiibh dbam Here you will see a suggested setup as example a CN i T z m Irm PE map r I aL This is if you are interested to understand what s exactly happening inside this module here you can see the path of the audio signal and how is routed in the program Page 98 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 SOURCES TAB Source RTA Input Level Enable input ON Gen ON This is where you have the levels you can mix the signals together and the setting for the generators SOURCE RTX frame Source TX Input ON This is the enable disable button for the device which has been set for the input form the RTX Just click on Input ON to disable the audio coming from the rig press it again to re enable it Once the inout is is enabled his output goes to the System Out device typically the pc speakers and to the scopes This audio never goes to the to RTX device INPUT LEVEL frame Input Level Gain fader Use this fader to set the input level of the audio coming from the rig Source Line in level This is only a presen
17. BF out from Connectors Rtty RX DSP Packet connector Here we can adjust parameter related to the RTTY and AFSK modes AFSK VOX frame We can use the faders to set the VOX Delay and Gain when used for AFSK mode no need to use a PTT circuit in this way as for Psk31 Olivia Thor etc AFSK Levels frame Set the input and output bf levels for AFSK modes packet connector and PKT u or PKT I mode Page 57 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 AFSK RX frame SUB VPO B Afsk Rx BF out from Specify if you want to use Main RX or Sub RX to send the BF out to the AFSK decoder via the Packet connector i qin VFO i AFSK RX DSP frame Set the AFSK RX DSP filter shape to Soft or Sharp and filter Slope to Steep medium or Gentle PKT OFFSET frame AFSK offset and Carrier adjustment VOX Source frame LENT ca ih SOUTE Use VOX circuit with signal coming from Microphone input or coming from Packet jack RTTY frame Tx polarity Rx polarity Nor Nor Rev Rev Tones Shift High 1170 aw Low 475 850 Set the parameters for true RTTY mode FSK Set TX polarity to Normal or reverse set RX polarity to Normal or reverse set low or high tones set shift 170 to 850 and bf output level on rtty connector Page 58 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 RTTY RX frame Rity Rx BF out from Main w Fo ji Use main or sub RX
18. Chan list POWER OFF MU co me i i A mT S J tit J Cool Contrast Flash Contrast Omb marker 10 blue blue blue umber sa OFF Here we have general controls of the rig VOX frame GAIN Use this fader to adjust VOX gain ANTI TRIP Use this fader to adjust anti VOX DELAY Use this fader to adjust VOX delay VOX ON VOX OFF Enable Disable VOX circuit Page 53 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 DIMMER frame DIM You can Enable the dimmed condition clicking DIM METER Use this fader to adjust the rig analogue meter brightness DISPLAY Use this fader to adjust the rig digital display brightness BEEP Level frame Beep level fos Se i Fae You can set the level of the RTX beep the sound when you press a button MAIN Tuning step frame Main tuning step Set the Main VFO a tuning steps to 1 Hz 5 Hz 10 Hz TUNING Indicator frame Tuning indicator Set the tuning indicator to display Clarifier offset CW tuning or VRF peak Page 54 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 HEADPHONES frame Headphones a aes Combihe 1 Combine 2 SEPARATE Set the Headphones output to be Separated VFO A in left ear VFO B in right ear COMBINE 1 Set the Headphones output to combine VFO A and VFO B in both ear but VFO A attenuated in right ear VFO B attenuated in left ear COMBI NE2 Mono TX Time Out timer frame Enable TX whatchdog timer and
19. Erih ity F a r Laval an PPE Level F Tr kmh tree iW ae amp HCH ira Es This is the tab which is dedicated to the transmission setting MIC Equalizer frame A Mic Equalizer This is the display of the microphone equalizer or speech processor equalizer The display can be switched from the two equalizer using the buttons in the Main Display Mode and Controls frame Main Display Mode and Contrals Nic Equalizer Proc Equalizer The three curves gives you an idea on how the equalizer is set The red curve display approximately the low band equalizer shape The green curve display approximately the mid band equalizer shape The blue curve display approximately the low band equalizer shape Page 21 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 In the horizontal axis we have the frequency scale low frequency on the left high frequency on the right In the vertical axis we have the gain scale attenuation if below the zero increase if above the zero line The overall white line represent the TX DSP filter bandwidth This display is also a point and set device Click and hold with the left mouse on a curve Now you can drag the frequency of this filter form his low to his high frequency and from his maximum to his minimum gain 100 Hz 700 Hz 1500 Hz 3200 Hz While you are adjust a curve moving it left to right Frequency and up to down Gain still holding down the left mouse button you c
20. Graphic output frame Copy Save Image As Un Zoom R Undo All Zoom Pan Set Scale to Default o 50 100 You can zoom the graphic using the mouse wheel You can save the graphic to a file right clicking the graphic and selecting Save image as Page 69 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 MENU READ F11 i AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 Dial 1 Tx f2 Rx 3 Cw f Meters 5 Panoramic 6 Generel 7 DigSet 8 Fm 9 Swr 10 Menu read 11 Liity 12 FT 2000 com HotKeys Tem Print Preview CenterH F Center V Fitto margins Print sel Download Menu Aval Values list of 14 06 2010 0 32 06 Ce the delay time for the AGC FAST mode of the Main VEO R receiver the hang time of the ACC peak voltage fo mode of the Main band VFO A receiver Sets the delay time for the AGC MID mode of the Main band VFO A receiver Mid delay msec step MC w 0 0 8 Zo 4000 msec 20 msec step 0 2000 msec 20 30 4000 msec 290 msec step O 2000 msec 20 0020 ms msec step 20 4000 msec 20 msec step Mid hold Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AGC E MID mode of the Main band VFOC A receiver Sets the delay time for the AGC SLOW mode of the Main band VFO A receiver 2480 ms Slow delay O 2000 msec 20 0985 ms msec step bL1 Cool Blue B12 Contrast Blue bL3 Flash White ubi Contrast Umber ub2 Umber
21. can assign some of the MC function to a always available system wide hot key Page 90 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 TERM TAB i AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 PPPE PPE Dial 1 Tx 42 Rx 3 Cw f4 Meters f5 Panoramic f6 General f7 DigSet 8 Fm 9 Swr 10 Menu read 11 Utiity 12 FT 2000 com HotKeys Tem TX Values ctr RX Values FAL42e30145 Type command to send fie FAjentery ee WO J 2 _ __Feesen__ ueno lt AT A i ors eee a ence fr See erm a er to the frarsceiver lt a pps E to receve data tus por goes to L for inhabit the transmit data be from the transceiver to receive dala thie por gose lo L for inhibit the tranamet data ee _ _ A i a iS Send temporary stored Commands Send black Receive blue dialog Here you can send to the rig any cat code you want and check the answers from the rig or see what the rig is doing Page 91 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 AWH MC DSP Signal Processing Now we go to see the functionalities of the AWH MC DSP module Go to the utility tab Wait several seconds it take a lot to load it s normal After a while a new windows will be opened Now we can start playing with the new module Awh MC DSP m BF Spectrum 0 200 600 800 Setup Sources Scopes Filters PlayRec 135625 Sound Cards Enable yom START System Out System In Awh Mc Dsp Module B
22. can set what scanning step you wan to use 50 Hz will give us a very detailed scanning but very slow 1000 Hz will be very fast but maybe not too much accurate Find the step size which best fit your requirement SCAN Using RX frame scan using EX We can use MAIN RX to do the band scan or we can use the SUB RX Please remember that the FT 2000 Sub RX is an inband receiver So we can t do a scanning on the sub RX on a band which is too much away from the Main receiver band For this reason here we have two buttons to copy frequency A into VFO B or to copy frequency B into VFO a the meaning is to have both the receiver on the same band If we want to do several band scan and we want always to have both RX on the same band we may enable Match A B band clicking on iso A B band will change to Match scan using RX START Once we are ready press START to begin the band scan The RX will scan from the start point until the end point using the set tuning steps and will plot the signal received on the graphic display Please remember that AGC set to fast generally will gives you better results ABORT Abort will interrupt the scanning DI SPLAY Performance frame Display Performance If you want to achieve faster scan you may disable realtime plot Try with Blind or with Fast and check which give you the accuracy or the speed that you prefer Page 49 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Scanning output and mouse tunin
23. have internet connection available Warning This portion of Master Commander requires an active intemet connection are you connected to the intemet Click YES if your connection with the ISP is already established After that the procedure will try to reach the web server to check that the information can be uploaded or downloaded If everything will be ok all the panels will be enabled Page 85 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 a gee ee Sn AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 Dial 1 Tx 2 Rx 3 Cw 4 Meters 5 Panoramic 6 Generel f7 DigSet 8 Fm 9 Swr 10 Menu read 11 Ltilty 12 FT 2000 com HotKeys Tem MIC Export Internet On Callsign pew if Mat 4 men to export Firm ver EDSP ver E TTEF mod Note Au toNote Please fill inthe additional data field then click Export FT 2000 COM Mic Setting List Download List SS YAESU F7 2000 Ir ormation exchange About Enter Mic View Mic Enter AGC View AGC Enter Bugs View Bugs Files Links ZLICDP You can resize and adjust the three panels to better see the web site www ft 2000 com and you can navigate into the web site from here Example of resize fw AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 Dial t1 Tx 2 i Rx 3 Cw f4 Meters 5 Panoramic 6 General 7 DigSet 8 Fm 9 Swr 10 Menu read 11 tility 12 FT 2000 com HotKeys Tem MIC Export a z FT 2000 COM Mic
24. ms 300 ms 4 2 AGC Fast hold Sets the hi0 2000 n0020 ms 20 ms 5 J AGC Mid delay Sets the d 20 4000 1000 ms 700 ms 6 4 AGC Mid hold Sets the hO 2000n0020 ms 20 ms T 5 AGC slow delay Sets the d 20 4000 2460 ms 2000 ms i 6 AGC Slow hold Sets the hO 2000 n0050 ms 20 ms 9 fT DISPLAY Display co Selects thibL1 Cool EbL1 Cool IbL1 Cool Blue 10 a DISPLAY Meter Dim Setting of 10 15 3 T 11 9 DISPLAY Display Dil Setting of 10 7 2 4 12 10 DISPLAY Tuning offs Selects on CLAr C tn C tn cw tu C tn 3 11 DISPLAY S Meter pe Selects thiOFF 0 5 OFF OFF 14 12 DISPLAY Rotator ste Selects thi0 90 180 0 degrees 0 15 13 DISPLAY Rotator ne Adjusts thi 30 0 dei 00 degrees 16 14 DISPLAY QMB makiEnables D On Of ON ON If 15 DISPLAY VFD DispliEnables D Pl PITCH 1 11E 11 PI SP CO nO dn Cd Ud 16 16 DVS Voice men Sets the a0 100 5 50 19 17 DVS Voice men Sets the m0 100 a0 50 20 18 KEYER CW beaco Sets the irOFF 1 40FF OFF 1 IS KEYER Contest nu Selects thi 1290 Aun bAnd Ban 1290 22 20 KEYER Contest nuEnters the 1 9999 0 1 23 21 KEYER CW memoPermits entyP1 tyPatyP2 mes tyP2 24 22 KEYER CW memoPermits ertvP1 tvP2tvP 1 text tvP2 Page 4 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 UTILITY TAB F12 a Ane ry AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 MC Default Arial Arial Black Rate of Speech Arial Narrow ae e Ga English Office 2007 Black Office 2007 Blue Office 2007 Silver Wil Pro Office
25. of the Main ZE een 5 Acc Slow delay ti msec 20 2480 ms 2000 ms band VFO A receiver msec step Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the ACC a S aaa SLOW mode of the Main band VFO A receiver 1an MONO ma msec step 0 2000 msec A Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the ACC A E E i cl Sa FAST mode of the Main band VFO A receiver a za m msec step 2 DISPLAY iter ner Setting of the meter brightness level when DIM is o 15 03 selected If you click two times on the same column you can switch from ascending to descending order You can resize each column to fit your requirement simply dragging the space between each column in the title row Example of some column resized Nu Gro Functio Description Aval Values RTX Values aig ve a 0 2000 Menu list of 14 06 2010 11 33 42 MC v 0 0 8 Usr Ric Com PEP Sane 20 4000 1 AGC ates Sets the delay time for the AGC FAST mode of the Main band VFO A receiver msec 20 0300 ms 300 ms msec step O 2000 Fast Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AGC FAST mode of the Jaa a iia hes ONE scone tas l acer 2o m msec step Mid 20 4000 3 Acc meine Sets the delay time for the AGC MID mode of the Main band VFO A receiver msec 20 1000 ms 700 ms msec step You can organize the order of the column that you prefer simply holding the mouse on the column title and moving in another position Example of a different column order RIA me Av
26. set the desired amount of time 3 min 30 min ANTENNA Sel method frame Antenna selection method change antenna 1 or antenna 2 according to Band or by Stack each stack within the band may have a different antenna SUB RX Smeter hold frame Sub Rx Smeter Peak hold Set the Peak hold for Sub RX S meter from off to 2 seconds Page 55 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 TUNING Driving Pwr frame Tuning driveing pwr T00 Watt Select maximum power output limit fro driving an amplifier while tuning using the remote control function 10 20 50 100 Watt MAX Output Pwr frame i MI axo ut put p WT 100 Wat Select maximum power output limit 10 20 50 100 Watt DMU Disp frame DMU disp EWR Temp Control Recall DMU function MAP RF Scope AF Scope Logbook Swr Rotator Memory DMU Colour frame Contrast Contrast Mormal blueg umber umber dmo marker Set the DMU colour schema ROTATOR control frame otabor contral Poe ENABLE the control of a Yaesu rotator connected to the rig CCW CW to start moving antenna rotator counter clockwise clockwise OFF to stop it Page 56 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 DI GSET F8 cy p Ayano z n AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 FT 2000 com HotKeys Term Tx polanty Rx polanty Nor Nor Rev Rev Tones Shift High 170 Low 425 Oe ee Rtty Rx Rtty Rx Main VFO A
27. so you don t need to install any other library raycov AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Installation guide Connect the RS232 cable and power ON your RTX you can later do it from the software once you know that it s working Then oe a oS ee Download the ZIP archive Extract the Setup AWH MC EXE file Double click it Follow the wizard OK Next Accept Next Next Install Next End Only for the first time we now need to configure the connection parameters Select the RTX type FT 2000 PEP or FT 2000D PEP from the frame in the upper left Select RTX Select the pc serial port where the cat cable is connected COM1 from the frame in the upper right Port Setup Select the speed baud rate this MUST match the same speed as in the rig 4800 9600 19200 38400 highly recommend to use 38400 To check your rig baud rate enter menu and check the item n 28 on the FT2K Pep Select the proper handshake from the Serial Protocol frame This is VERY important If you are using a 3 wire cable 2 RX 3 TX 5 gnd then you MUST set Mc to Handshake OFF and your rig with RTS to OFF menu item 30 on the FT2K Pep If you are using a 5 wire cable recommended then you MUST set Handshake ON and set RTS to ON into the rig menu 10 Click CONNECT After few seconds you will be connected to your rig For example this is my setup RTX set menu item O28GEnE CAT BPS 38h4 RTX set menu item O30GEnE C
28. to Disk EXPORT Export will save the current 4 RX preset memory RX tab to a disk file IMPORT Import will load back the RX setting into LoadA LoadB buttons You can share your files with other friends if you want It s Sa Bs alli Ei Madina Feman BiN ach ME EE RX DE STEINE 2000 PEP at 24 06 2000 12 43 21 0 20 0 6 1 Oo oes 011 O00 Ao 1 0 2000 D 1 O 1 i D 1 1 40 6 18 0 960 620 0 0 255 0 1 7 0 0 1 0 1 148 0 0 2 0 700 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 70 11 8 18 0 816 260 10 20 255 0 1 7 0 0 1 9 1 148 0 0 3 0 00 0 1 0 L 26 rte ae TY 5 1056 0 15 15 255 0 1 7 0 0 i 0 i i44 0 i 0 90 0 0 E A EQUALI ZER CONTOUR to HRD bod Equalizer to HRD tag Contour to HRB You can use Master Commander to preset your microphone equalizer and Contour filter and then use load this values into Ham Radio Deluxe Click Exp EQ to HRD to save the 40 equalizer presets to a file that Ham Radio Deluxe can later import as a Cat Commands macro file Click Exp CT to HRD to save the Contour preset to a file that Ham Radio Deluxe can later import as a Cat Commands macro file occa Lint Eeg m T jr Ai E HAD Custom Deti FT 2000 xt Enta aboia Layi PT SRM tt E PAD Faora Lt E HAD Lenplenede deal ye Dalai tt E HAO Meros FT 2000 et HRD Parade Sore Bethe ot Bema negata aber txt E eet Saele Favourites nxt E Raci xl ie sre tie ReFTAODPEPCetuHADGH De Says come Har Rinka D
29. use also AWHMC DSP then you will need few more things and your full set up may be similar to the below picture 2 QDATAIN p 3 2 SERIAL OUT AY aie OB nde J SERIAL IN J EST a O DRINE nii z TAA E pra S Co lls ADATAOUT 7 ae amp NIA iL TER ee bt D a 2 J D pi BUSY aa SSS Ss _ lt amp D Cc Popeye c gt zo 593 ey D TT 285588 at You need to send the BF out from your rig to a souncard of your PC Optionally you may also want to connect the audio output of a soundcard to the BF input of your rig It s highly recommended that you use one soundcard dedicated to your rig properly isolated with 1 1 audio transformers or with a so called audio interface and one soundcard dedicated to your system pc connected to loudspeakers The sound board dedicated to the rig may also be one of the very common digital modes interface now available with embedded USB sound card The RTX sound card or interface can be connected to the Packet jack recommended or to Mic jack and Bf output Packet Jack Sb out to Pinl Sb in from Pin4 Ground with Pin2 2 OIDATAIN a ZA AGS No 4 lis oy GPACKET PTT TRAD Busy Mic Jack Sb out to Pin8 Ground with Pin7 UP 5V 3 DOW gt oF Pe A O OFAST T GND s PTT 7 MIC GND MIC AF Out jack Sb in from Tip Ground with Shaft SUB VFO B MAIN VFO A GND Page 5 AWH Master
30. you have finished to zoom or to pan and tilt you can press Zoom Off button to reset the display to his default setting SPECTRUM controls frame Spectrum controls Ce e eM AutoRange LINE Click Line button to switch from Line to Bars see Scope for more details TRACE THICK fader Use this fader to set the line bars width see Scope for more details V SCALE Enable disable the display of a vertical scale H SCALE Enable disable the display of a horizontal scale which is the frequency scale KHz AUTO RANGE When Auto range is enabled the scope will follow the signal input to achieve a view of the Shape Anyway in this mode you don t have any reference on the signal amplitude variations Just disable this function if you want to compare signals Page 106 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 When Auto range is disabled you can use the fader to set the desired gain fro the signal we are looking at X10 If needed use this button to enable an attenuation of ten times when auto range is disabled and you are adjusting the gain fader ZOOM R fader Use the Zoom Right fader to zoom the right part of the Spectrum scope In the following example you can see the ZoomR fader moved a little bit to the left and the scale of the Spectrum is now finishing at 4 0 KHZ instead of 5 5 KHz which is the default setting SSS I 00m i j j rs TACK v Sod m sidie i i i i j p y z m eee iT ii fidoaeoarn
31. 0 17 set VFO A to 50 920 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 420 RS0 18 set VFO A to 50 940 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 440 RS0 19 set VFO A to 50 960 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 460 RSO 20 set VFO A to 50 980 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 480 Page 66 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 SWR TAB F10 ML AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 Dial f1 Tx 2 Rx f3 Cw f4 Meters 5 Panoramic 6 General f7 DigSet f8 Fm f9 Swr f10 Menu read 11 Utiity 12 FT 2000 com HotKeys Term Swr Check Speed In this tab you can do a SWR check of your antenna Please remember to set the appropriate antenna ANT1 or ANT2 before start using the SWR Check Note that this tab will put your rig into TX so carefully double check that everything is properly connected BANDS frame Press one You can press CUST and set your custom upper and lower frequencies to check CUSTOM Band frame Custom Band 1 Mhz Start KHz Stop KHz When CUST is enable we can specify a range where we want to check for SWR Select the Band MHz on the left box using up or down buttons If your rig is already on the frequency that you want to start scanning then press the lt lt button at the right of MHz frame Then set the start KHz using up or down or if your rig is at the starting frequency click then click lt lt Then set the stop KHz using up or down or tune the rig to the end
32. 50 17 OVvs Voice memory audio txl Sotrthe microphone input lovelta the vaice momory 07100 33 50 1 KEYER CWheacon Setrthe intorval time botuoon ropoatr nf the boacan merraqe OFF 1 255rec OFF OFF lt i 19 KEYER Contortnumberstylo Seloctr the Cantort Numbor Cut farmat far animbeodded cantert number 1298 unD Aunt Azn0 Azne 42n0 band Band mo 1290 Enters the initial contort number that uillincremeont or docromont aftorrending during cuntort SOr l 20 KEYER Cuntort number _ Prosrthe CLEAR buttantororct tho contort number to 1 179999 Pormitr ontry of the CW morragqe for morraqe reqirter Il tyPt you may ontorthe CW morraqe fram the Front panel s Function Keyri 21 KEYER CWmomoryltype ty P2 yaumayonterthoCWmerraqeframthoCWhkeyor tyPt tyFe _ EYF2 merraqe tyP2 Formitr ontry of the CW mevraqe For merraqereqirter Il tyP1 you may ontor the CW mortage fram the Frant panel s Function Keyri 22 KEYER CW momary Ztype tyP2 yau may enter tho CW morrage fram tho CW keyer tyF i tyP tyPiltoxt mom tyP2 Pormitr ontry of the CW morragqe far mosraqe reqirter 1 tyP 1 you may ont rthe CW motzago From the Front panel s FunctionKeyrl PA KEYER CW momory 3 fi 2E maxenter y CW merrage fram the CW kewer _tyPtityF2 tv P ifkoxt et tyP2 nae Foglio1 Fogjio2 y Fagio3 Pronta KORI B frequency dirplay tarhou oach frequency ar valuo uhile sas Page 73 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 CVS Press CVS to export the menu list into Command Se
33. AT RTS On On MC this is my start up sequence 1 selected FT 2000 2 selected COM1 3 selected Speed 38400 4 selected Handshake On 5 Click Connect button see below Page 7 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 First Time Five Setting Steps CL Save RTE Settings a Pren OF hen riang R T Cy save ATA Settings very easy for the second tome just click Connect Hardghaee OM freer 30 or hundihaie OF inners 30 OM Bart paa on BUEESEEFully Fetecllehes Loading Ae nEn fig RTA Aue J oa aie A FT EDO z eauallrer setting Teering can equ seep i pitt i j ERTS naaal egualliger sebting Cal 1 Ta t2 Fin 2 Son fa lt i Motes i Parramn t l Genesa 1e Oesa t n fm tS d Sar 100 Maras cma 111 Ladey 182 FT 2005 con iskane Tere Frequency L4 217 O1 UL ML c LA 5 Page 8 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 A closer look at Connect screen If we have a closer look we will see few more buttons and option available on the start up screen suggest to first get sure that MC is working before using the other options just to avoid to get lost RTX frame POWER ON POWER ON If your rig is powered off in reality it is sleeping You can wake it up clicking the POWER ON button After few seconds the rig will be powered on You must be sure that the serial communication cable and parameters are correct but if you are able to use MC when the rig is powered then you will be able t
34. AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 AWH MASTER COMMANDER Beta vers 0 0 8 build O BF Scope BF Spectrum BF Waterfall Cw f Meters 15 Panoramic 16 General f7 DigSet 3 Fm t3 Sar 10 Menu read 11 Unity 92 FT 2000 com HotKeys Tem Source ATX Input Level a trout ON BAOCIODEOUDIONIADA 017i ONN cO ShL 5 Australia EWIA WICEN Epergency User Guide preliminary draft By Rick twlawh June 2010 Page 1 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 INTRODUCTION What is it AWH MC beta 0 0 8 AWH Master Commander is a simple utility MC has been done from a non programmer me and the challenge was to learn how to code something with the now freely available development tools Microsoft Visual Express The project has been started to only allow an easy setting of the FT 2000 equalizer Then MC evolved adding controls for some other function which are available into the rig but not easy to use or set The primary goal is to allow the users to learn a little bit more of this RTX and the way it s working It s also a way to share experience and find new friends Many friends use MC for quick setting of some parameters or to print out the menu list Someone else use it only when need to perform a firmware upgrade on the rig to save and reload the settings Someone else is using it as a cat rig controller Give it a try and found if there is any usage which fit with your needs
35. AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 SCOPES TAB l Awh MC DSP Beta V 0 0 8 0 O X Theme i BF Spectrum BF Waterfall vert gair gt ramess gain Ea Sample H disp Lin zoomoff Sr Waterfall Here we can manage the controls of the three instruments Scope Spectrum Waterfall SCOPE Control frame Scope controls vV scale A scale AoomOit ISir Le Ta F AutoRange LINE Click Line button to switch from Line to Bars Line display example 5 8 10 13 15 18 20 23 25 28 30 Bars display example 5 8 10 13 15 18 20 Page 103 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 TRACE THICK fader Use this fader to set the line bars width Example of fader moved fully to the right V SCALE Enable disable the display of a vertical scale Example of Vertical scale enabled Horizontal enabled too BF Scope 1000 H SCALE Enable disable the display of a horizontal scale Example of Horizontal scale disabled vertical enabled BF Scope AUTO RANGE When Auto range is enabled the scope will follow the signal input to achieve a view of the Shape Anyway in this mode you don t have any reference on the signal amplitude variations Just disable this function if you want to compare signals When Auto range is disabled you can use the fader to set the desired gain fro the signal we are looking at Example of auto range switched off and with the vertical gain fader with a lot of amplification
36. Baud Rate 38400 cts Holding True Dsr Holding False Handshake Ports available COM3 COM4 COM1 COM2 COM6 Framework dot Net 2 0 50727 3603 current dir C Documents and Settings Ric Current usr Ric Application comport COM1 Application baudrate 38400 Application handshake ON connection log history Loading form Getting directory information Checking TTS Setting cat constants Reload equalizer memory Enumerate serial ports Pre CONNECT button procedure done Initializing Serial Port com1 ABOUT Click ABOUT MC to check version in use and to see credits About AWH Master Commander Awh Master Commander beta Version 0 0 8 0 Copyright 2010 Free for every HAM lwlawh Rick MASTER COMMANDER utility for FT 2000 D Beta testers Luciano IV SCTR Daniele IWSGRL Frenk IZ8NVW Umberto ISIAR Walter IZOFIB Demy IZ1FKU John 1Z1CQZ Bruno IZ2KXE Giovanni IW7DOL Many thanks to Lou N2TU for testing and helping the development Many thanks to Alan W4LGH http Awww w4igh com for helping and hosting Awh Mc Many thanks to Chris ZL1CDP http www ft 2000 com Many thanks to everyone else who tried this utility Credits and software compon Agauge control A J ean Ken Ogden C2DpushGraph control Stuart Konen ExtendedDotNET Contro Johnny Hooyberghs ZedGraph control Jchampions Knob control blong Extended net control Johnny Hooyberghs AnalogClock control Obaid ur Rehman MacTr
37. Blue bL1 cool Blue 8 DISPLAY Meter Dimmer Setting of the meter brightness level when DIM is selected 0 1520327 9 DISPLAY Display Dimmer Setting of the frequency display brightness level when DIM is selected 0 7 02 4 10 DISPLAY Tuning offset indicator Selects one of three parameters to be viewed on the Tuning offset Indicator CLAr displays relative clarifier offset c tn displays relative tuning offset between the incoming signal and transmitted frequency u tn displays the peak position of the VRF or uTUNE filter CLAr C tn u tn c tn cw tuning c tn 11 DISPLAY S Meter peak hold Selects the peak hold time of the Sub VFO B receiver s S meter OFF 0 5 1 0 2 0 sec OFF OFF 12 DISPLAY Rotator starting point Selects the starting point of your rotator controller s indicator needle 0 90 180 270 degrees 0 degrees 0 13 DISPLAY Rotator needle precisely Adjusts the indicator needle precisely to the starting point set in menu item 012 30 0 degrees 2 degrees step 00 degrees 0 14 DISPLAY QMB maker Enables Disables the QMB Marker white arrow v to display on the Spectrum Band Scope when the optional DMU 2000 Data Management Unit is connected on Typically CVS file can also be opened with spreadsheet programs or database B C D E F G H IGroup Function Description Aval Value RTX Value Default set 0 Master Co FT 2000 P Menu list cMC v 0 0 5 Usr Ric TAGC Fast delay Sets the d 20 4000 0300
38. Commander beta 0 0 8 Software requirements Mc needs the Microsoft Dot Net Framework 3 5 see below MC has been developed and tested with Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3 MC is know to work with e Windows XP Home Service Pack 3 e Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 e Windows Vista SP2 32 bit all versions e Windows 7 RC 32 bit all versions e Windows 2003 server e Windows 2008 server MC doesn t work with e Windows 95 98 e Windows Millenium e Windows NT 4 0 e Windows 2000 e Windows 64 bit e Linux any e MacOSX Note some friends are able to run MC under MacOsX or Linux using the now available virtual machine and loading Windows inside look at VmWare or VirtualBox or similar Windows XP must be patched with SP3 or later Windows Vista must be patched with SP1 or later Windows Seven does not require any service pack for MC For any Windows O S is always suggested to check for the latest update here http update microsoft com Select Custom and check high priority software and hardware option IMPORTANT Master Commander require dot net library vers 3 5 Almost all the computers with windows have this library already installed if missing you can download Microsoft NET Framework 3 5 Service Pack 1 from here http www microsoft com downloads details aspx displaylang en amp Familyl D ab99342f 5d1la 413d 8319 81da4 9ab0d7 Windows Seven has already a newest dot net library
39. DE frame Set the rig mode to CW USB or CW LSB CW BFO frame Set if you want the carrier inject as in USB or in LSB or Auto MONI TOR frame Monitor MONI MONI enable or Disable the rig audio monitor CW SPOT CW spot enable the side tone to help to tune the received station READOUT frame Pitch offset Select if you want direct frequency or with pitch offset into the rig frequency readout Page 40 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 REFRESH frame Press Sync if for some reason MC and the Rig setting are no more in sync CODE Help frame Press Prosign to Know what symbols to use to send special CW characters Press CW Code if you need to know about the CW alphabet CW RX DSP Frame Here you can set the RX DSP for CW mode You can set the shape to Soft or Sharp and the Slope to Steep Medium or Gentle RTX TIMING frame RTX timing Rise Fall time Osk Del time MEAE N 4 ms qa 15 ms Here you can modify Rise Fall time and Qsk delay time Be careful adjust those setting only if you Know what are you doing FRONT and REAR jack frames Specify what type of paddles you want to connect on the front and back jack OFF Built in keyer is disabled straight key mode BUG Dots will be generated automatically by the keyer but dashes must be sent manually IAMBIC Both dots and dashes are generated by the keyer IAMBIC ACS Same as lambic but with automatic character spa
40. F BF Scope B 0 00 1 00 2 00 V scale H scale ZOOMOf AutoRang e a SAMPLES fader Page 104 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Move Samples fader to change the scope time base In the following example the image on the left has the sample faders all the way to the left the picture on the right has the fader all the way on the right 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 ZOOM Once the mouse cursor is over the scope you can see two small red lines on the axis Just click and hold the left mouse button in a starting point and drag the mouse to another point to draw a square on the scope BF Scope a a a a L 00 2750 300 350 400 4355 500 550 600 Release the mouse button You will see that the scope is now zoomed to the region you selected Example of a zoomed area Sol ol sro as a Sol A ol ands 400 410 420 430 440 450 460 470 460 Now hovering the mouse over the scope you can rotate your mouse wheel and you can see that you can still zoom in or zoom out Example of extremely zoomed in scope compare to an extremely zoomed out one Page 105 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 While you are into zoom mode you can press and hold the left mouse button on the X axis or Y axis and drag it left or right or up and down to pan and tilt your display In the following example you can see the mouse cursor while is doing a pan on the scope BF Scope 100 150 200 750 300 ZOOMOFF When
41. FO A to 52 840 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 340 RSO 17 set VFO A to 52 860 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 360 RSO 18 set VFO A to 52 880 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 380 RSO 19 set VFO A to 52 900 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 400 RSO 20 set VFO A to 52 920 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 420 RSO 21 set VFO A to 52 940 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 440 RSO 22 set VFO A to 52 960 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 460 RSO 23 set VFO A to 52 980 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 52 480 When region is set to USA3 then you have RSO 1 set VFO A to 50 540 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 040 RSO 2 set VFO A to 50 560 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 060 RSO 3 set VFO A to 50 580 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 080 RSO 4 set VFO A to 50 610 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 110 RSO 5 set VFO A to 50 620 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 120 RSO 6 set VFO A to 50 640 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 140 RSO 7 set VFO A to 50 660 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 160 RSO 8 set VFO A to 50 680 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 180 RS0 9 set VFO A to 50 720 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 220 RS0 10 set VFO A to 50 740 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 240 RS0 11 set VFO A to 50 760 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 260 RS0 12 set VFO A to 50 780 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 280 RSO 13 set VFO A to 50 820 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 320 RS0 14 set VFO A to 50 840 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 340 RS0 15 set VFO A to 50 860 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 360 RSO 16 set VFO A to 50 880 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 380 RS
42. O a to 29 690 set Fm mode set a shift of 100 Hz TX 29 590 Check your bandplan before using this preset 10m repeater Reg2 3 frame Recall some preset frequency mode shift for repeater access RH1 set VFO a to 29 620 set Fm mode set a shift of 100 Hz TX 29 520 RH2 set VFO a to 29 640 set Fm mode set a shift of 100 Hz TX 29 540 RH3 set VFO a to 29 660 set Fm mode set a shift of 100 Hz TX 29 560 RH4 set VFO a to 29 680 set Fm mode set a shift of 100 Hz TX 29 580 RHla set VFO a to 29 630 set Fm mode set a shift of 100 Hz TX 29 530 RH2a set VFO a to 29 650 set Fm mode set a shift of 100 Hz TX 29 550 RH3a set VFO a to 29 670 set Fm mode set a shift of 100 Hz TX 29 570 RH4a set VFO a to 29 690 set Fm mode set a shift of 100 Hz TX 29 590 Check your bandplan before using this preset Page 62 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 10m Simplex Reg1 frame 10 m Simplex Reg 1 Recall some gee frequency and mode FM1 set VFO A to 29 520 simplex RX TX Fm mode FM2 set VFO A to simplex RX TX Fm mode FM3 set VFO A to 29 540 simplex RX TX Fm mode FM4 set VFO A to 29 550 simplex RX TX Fm mode FM5 set VFO A to 29 610 simplex RX TX Fm mode FM6 set VFO A to 29 620 simplex RX TX Fm mode FM7 set VFO A to 29 630 simplex RX TX Fm mode FM8 set VFO A to 29 640 simplex RX TX Fm mode FM9 set VFO A to 29 650 simplex ae Fm mode
43. O er EO reese ee Then press STORE A Page 36 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Now when you will press BANK A the stored messages will be recalled on screen Then you can decide to send all this messages to the keyer pressing Send all text or just use someone clicking Store RTX n to send only that message to the rig Keyer Text Input CA CACADEILXXXILXX X XXX e me mo me ee mee mee me ee na ae QRZ ORZ DELTUXX Xe AAR nn lee PK_ILXXX_ILXXX_5SNN 5NN TU BK ILXXX LXXX NN NN PSE OS Lee Z nn Eor Asle TUTE TLAN ORI TF En ree remeron eae oe cD Into Text Memory bank press RTX to see exactly what message are programmed into the rig memories Keyer Text Input Press Play 1 Play 5 to playback one of the CW programmed text message from the keyer To allows the rig to transmit do not forget to press Break In and MONI to listen to your tone Page 37 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 MESSAGE frame You can press one of the five button here to playback on the memorized messages recorded using the paddles Those five message location and memories are different from CW text memory Text are loaded from pc message are loaded with paddles We have up to 9 memories in this way to playback but we must record the message using the paddles See FT 2000 user manual for more details MEM TYPE frame Mems Typel You can decide any combination of the five memory
44. REQ and the voice will read the current VFO A frequency SIGNAL Click SIGNAL and the voice will read the current VFO A S meter MODE Click MODE and the voice will read the current VFO A mode You can assign Freq Signal Mode button to a system wide hot key so you can use this features in any tab if you want FREQUENCY Readout frame Frequency readout Fato ry Font Color Digital Readout _ Digital Readout EE daag Digital Readout Digital Readout Digital Readout Pe he Pe ed ee You can change the font and colour of the frequency readout Example Frequency Page 81 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 STYLE frame Sparkle Purple Up to eight theme are provided with MC to try to fit your preference Click on any button to check to combination that you prefer GMT CLOCK frame 14 06 2010 This analogue clock will shows you the current date and the UTC time 2 MC DEFAULT frame MC Default If for some reason you want to reload all the initial settings of MC just click Reset Mc button You can also reset MC at start up Before open it press and hold the shift key on the keyboard and click the master Commander icon Wait until a message box appear SETTING RESETTED Click OK Done all the MC default are now loaded Page 82 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 RTX Serial Number frame RIX Serial number decoder f KRLcAI45b september 200 Unit 3456 Lot ie
45. Repeater regions frame 6m Repeaters regions Select a preset from one of the above Region The preset will modify the frequencies associated with RSn buttons Note this is not a band plan it s a guess based on the information found on the net carefully check your band plan and regulation before use and transmit on a frequency Page 64 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 6m Repeater 1 TA UK USA1 USA2 USA3 frame 6m Repeaters ITA R50 10 R50 11 R50 12 My R50 13 R50 14 R50 15 R50 16 R50 17 R50 18 R50 19 R50 20 R50 21 R50 22 R50 23 R50 24 When region i s set to ITA then you have RSO 1 set VFO A to 50 400 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 900 RSO 2 set VFO A to 50 420 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 920 RSO 3 set VFO A to 50 440 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 940 RSO 4 set VFO A to 50 460 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 960 RSO 5 set VFO A to 50 480 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 980 When region is set to UK then you have RSO 1 set VFO A to 50 720 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 51 220 RSO 2 set VFO A to 50 730 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 230 RSO 3 set VFO A to 50 740 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 240 RSO 4 set VFO A to 50 750 Fm mode Shift 500 TX 50 250
46. Setting List Download List Internet On SS YAESU FT 2000 Intormation exc ange About Enter Mic View Mic Enter AGC View AGC Enter Bugs View Bugs Files Links ZLICDP 4 PT He yi Gee lt ey N earl gt Neg 7 o y Page 86 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 FT 2000 WEB SITE button Clicking this button your browser will open a page with the homepage of www ft 2000 com web site DOWNLOAD LIST Do wnload List If we click DOWNLOAD LIST we will download all the equalizer list from the web Please wait it can require some time to download it Be patient Once the list has been downloaded we have it ready to use Here have resized the panels to better se the list W_ AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 Dial f1 Tx 2 Rx 3 Cw f4 Meters t5 Panoramic 6 Generel f7 DigSet 8 Fm 9 Swr 10 Menu read 11 Utiity 12 FT 2000 com Hotkeys Term MIC Export CIR Internet On OME mom C1 rent seat FT 2000 COM Mic Setting List Confirm s Callsign Setting name Microphone Ser Num Edsp Firm Note This works very well for me for a nice punchy audio I do have the MD 100 set to the Clean punchy audio Yaesu MD 100 6J050097 1153 1 48 following on the base Filter on High Emphasis On and Low Cut 1 3 27 for DX 1 29 for ragchew Almost always used with proc on mike gain at eleven 40 Fist Talker Yaesu MH 31 8B400xx a on display p
47. ackBar NicolNghia Grid Drawer net Blaise Braye Special thanks to this developers for their libraries Krypton toolkit by Phil Wright E http Avww componentfactory com Mitov software by Boian Mitov http www mitov com Special thanks to Ross my XYL Page 84 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 FT 2000 COM TAB Special thanks for this service to Chris ZL1CDP ww AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 MIC Export Callsion TWLAWH RTXsn OODOOOOO Setting name TESTING Microphone Yaesu MD 100 Firm ver EDSP ver TTBF mod y eaa L Sh m 11 54 na O 3 Export your TRX settings to the FT 2000 com database requires internet connection Note AutoNote Please fill inthe additional data field then click Export FT 2000 COM Mic Setting List Confirm send Download List This works very well for me for a nice punchy audio I do have the MD 100 set to the Clean punchy audio Yaesu MD 100 6J0350097 1153 1 48 following onthe base Filter on High Emphasis On and Low Cut 1 3 27 for DX 1 29 for ragchew Almost always used with proc on mike gain at eleven 40 Fist Talker Yaesu MH 31 S8B400xx 1139 148 on display proc at 10 G0 on display Many compliments about the audio Heil Pro Set 1153 142 Works fine with me I use a Heil HC5 element F7T 2000 Intormation exchange About Enter Mic View Mic EnterAGC View AGC EnterBugs View Bugs Files Links ZLICDP INTERNET ON Click INTERNET ON if you
48. al Num es Description Default set Gro Fun Valu FT l Haaj MC o Menu list of 147 0672010 11 33 42 Usar Ric 200 Com v 0 PEP i z i z0 1 0200 ms Sets the ay time for the AGC FAST mode of the Main band 300 ms Fasi VWRO A receiver del 4000 i Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AGC FAST Fasi z oo020 20 AEC 2000 fare pare mode of the Main band VFO A receiver eo hold maec i 20 2 1000 m aa the Ea time for the AGC MID mode of the Main band 700 ms Mid K VPFO A receiver del 4000 Oo Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AGC MID Mid 4 o020 z0 AEC 2000 eee mode of the Main band VFO A receiver ec nolq oo PRINTING frame Enting ee CenterH fF CenterV F Fitto margins C Print sel Print allows you to print the menu list to any defined printer in the system This can be also a virtual printer driver as for the Pdf creators Print Preview allow you to preview the printing Center H and Center V flags are to center horizontally and vertically the menu list in the pages Fit to margins flag is to print and fit the margins Prin Page 72 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Print Sel is to print only the selected row instead of all the 149 items Hold down the mouse on the row of the column on the left of the screen and drag up to the last row you want to print CenterH E Center v Fit to margins Print sel Num Group Functi
49. ally used for remote antenna tuners or for linear amplifier tuning Click TUNE to temporary switch to TX your rig and send a continue carrier at a fixed defined level of power To set it up click on the down arrow Then select the power level 25 50 75 and the hold time 5 10 15 seconds Rix Timed Tune Power Ej 25 blo YL 5 sec 10 sec 0 15sec Click on GEN to cycle the three VFO s stack for general coverage receiver Click BCL ON to enable to broadcasting bands preset Then choose the segment to tune at the beginning of that band into AM mode CB Ch and SWL Bands preset 49 mt 5730 6295 5730 be45 49 mt 4l mt 7YeOO 7b00 3l mt 7400 9900 RoS Ob oe E Channel frequency banks Page 19 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Click on CB ON if you want to active the listening on the CB channels band Once CB is ON you can select the band segment clicking on A B C D and the you can tune the channel using the channel selector If M is enabled the main VFO receiver is used for tune the CB channels If S is enabled then the sub VFO receiver is used for tune the CB channels CE Ch and SWL Bands preset 1 gt SVS0 6e 4 BCLOM Channel frequency banks Vio POWER frame 58 x Use this track bar in the same way you use the rig RF PWR knob Page 20 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 TX TAB F2 Masa 16 Foca E Green fr Coe 1E F Pic Eos a a Pror
50. ample If you change a little bit the low frequency gain the mnemonic name change to unsaved AutoLoad If you want to have a quick look at several settings just enable AutoLoad When AutoLoad is enabled as soon as you click the up or down memory button the settings are loaded and displayed on the screen no need to press Load each time If AutoLoad and AutoSend button are Active as soon as any memory is recalled immediately transferred to the rig overwriting the current one Parameters If you don t want to transfer all the parameters to the rig just disable the available checkbox options you can choose to transfer Mic Equalizer set Proc Equalizer set Mic gain level Processor level TX DSP Bandwidth For example if you want to change only the Mic Equalizer you can recall all the memories whit the flag on MicEqualizer set and all the other unchecked Note memory O zero is a special memory it s not in MC it represent the current setting into the rig Page 24 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 TO RTX frame Send Equ If you have done one setting for example you have set all the Frequency Gain and Q of the Mic equalizer and you want to send it now to the rig just click Send Equ This allows you to change several parameters see it on screen and when you decide you can Switch immediately to the prepared setup also when you are on air during your transmission Send Prc If you click Send Prc only the s
51. an press the CONTROL button on the keyboard Once Control is pressed if you move the mouse left to right you will change the filter Bandwidth Q There is a smaller similar display in this tab Each time you set the main graphics to display the microphone equalizer or the speech processor equalizer the smaller display shows you the other one ie if you are adjust and display the microphone equalizer the smaller display will shows you the speech processor equalizer q qm Page 22 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 MIC Equalizer Control frame Mic Equalizer Control Freg Low Hz 100 Gan Low dB 20 Q L bandwidth 1 Freq Mid Hz 700 Gam Mid dB 20 QM bandwidth 1 __ Freg High Hz 1500 Gain High dB 20 Q H bandwidth 1 E aa Nine faders which are used to adjust frequency gain and bandwidth of the three equalizer available for the microphone or for the speech processor depending on the setting of the buttons into the Main Display Mode and Controls frame Colours are the same as in the graphics display BANDWI DTH frame Bndwdth This is where you can set the overall TX DSP Bandwidth The setting available are O Hz to 4000 Hz 50 Hz to 3000 Hz 100 Hz to 2900 Hz 200 Hz to 2800 Hz 300 Hz to 2700 Hz 400 Hz to 2600 Hz Note you can t change TX DSP Bandwidth wile you are transmitting If you want to change the DSP TX Bandwidth just switch to RX for a moment switch it and
52. an unlimited time recording of what you are receiving from the rig You can playback your recorded audio files and use it as a voice keyer Other features will be added in the future Page 93 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Panels and Tab available Awh MC DSP Beta V 0 0 8 0 OF X 1 Theme BF Scope BF Spectrum BF Waterfall Sound Cards Enable from RTX System Out Awh Mc Dsp Module PANELS In this module we have 4 panels or area 1 this is the area of the BF Scope 2 this is the area of the Spectrum Scope 3 this is the area of the Waterfall 4 this is the area of Controls and Settings This panels can be resized using the handles available see the arrows The area 1 or 2 or 3 can be resized and share the space available The area 1 2 3 can be resized with the area 4 and share the space available All the window can be resized and repositioned in the screen main form size and position will be remembered for the next session At the moment you have five tabs SETUP this is the tab where you set you soundcard devices SOURCES here is the mixer where you set the level of the sources and set the generators SCOPES here you have the controls for the waveform spectrum and waterfall FILTERS setting of the audio filters PLAYREC recorder and voice keyer Page 94 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 SETUP TAB Sound Cards Enable Tom RIX to RIX BYSLEM OUt System IM He
53. at L4 0b 201L0 13 44 00 with user Ric logged on the computer Please fill inthe additional data field then click Export You can upload your setting to www ft 2000 com web site also using MC J ust use the panel Mic Export Type your Callsign Optionally type your rig serial number Give your setting a name Choose the type of microphone you are using from the drop box Select the Firmware loaded in your rig from the drop box Select the Edsp loaded in your rig from the drop box If you are using the TX enhanced output bandwidth check the flag TTBF mod r In the note field you can type any text with comments If you press AutoNote you can pre populate this field with some generic notes that you can edit Click WEB EXPORT button and wait few seconds until all of your information will be transferred to the web server Now this setting is available worldwide to all the ft 2000 user s community and other friends can load it and experiment your setting You can also upload an equalizer setting from memory instead sending the current setup in use Click MC mem instead of CURRRENT set MIC Export Callsign EER E3 J memory to se micooor Firm ver EDSP ver E TTEF mod Note At the moment running FT 2o00 PEP Mic Gain at 3b ZX Proc Level at be 1 Proc button is Disabled Mic source is front connector Working on frequency 50 470 007 Mode is FMa at L4 O0b 2010 13 50 37 with u
54. ay need to attenuate in one preset for a station and you may need DNR and Amp2 for another one RECALL AF If Recall AF is not checked all the stored parameter will be recalled but the current Audio level is not changed If Recall AF is checked then also the volume level will be applied at the current receiving setup Page 34 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 CW TAB F4 L AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 Dial 1 Tx f2 Rx 3 Cw f Meters 5 Panoramic 6 General 7 DigSet 8 Fm 9 Swr 10 Menu read 11 Utility 12 FT 2000 com HotKeys Tem Keyer Text Input E UE E N PE a GA 9 P DS A D PA EUR a AEA E os eee za ae are Rts Memt Type ORI DRT TOE PRAO EAU AS O AOE E E O AA yz a oe Mem2 Typel BK TUXXX TUX XX SNN SNM TU seceseseececerueteenetenee E A em Mems Typet mag BRITER TIX SNN SNM PSE SE E aaa eStore this text into Rtx messoge 3 actus Moma Type Mems Typei Text Memory Bank Input Mode tore A Message RTX timing Ris Fall time Qsk Del time 4ms q ___ _ 15 ms Here you can do the programming of the rig keyer KEYER TEXT Input frame Keyer Text Input THIA_ TAY AE SSAAGE_ THAT WILL BE TRANARNITTED WW pena epee Oa err nna Pc NOE ren Ae SUE Reva rier De NRO TCR cee ee SNCS ete Sean ero ee ae eR re me SR E ae een eee eee robes Scns eke hg ER a On Te ra ne CO oe 5 ne RC a RD a er cP see eA a tn Bcd Pres er AR PE a ee BC AA This frame i
55. ce monitor This VU meter always show you the signal which is coming from the audio device connected to the rig it doesn t care if you disable the input or change the input fader this meter is before anything else Page 99 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 ENABLE frame GEN1 ON Click on this button to enable the tone generator 1 Click it again to disable the tine generator Once the generator is enabled his output goes to the System Out device typically the pc Speakers and to RTX device the rig and to the scopes GEN2 ON Click on this button to enable the tone generator 2 Click it again to disable the tine generator Once the generator is enabled his output goes to the System Out device typically the pc Speakers and to RTX device the rig and to the scopes GEN3 ON Click on this button to enable the white noise signal generator Click it again to disable the tine generator Once the generator is enabled his output goes to the System Out device typically the pc Speakers and to RTX device the rig and to the scopes GEN1 and GEN2 Level and Frequency frame Genl level and frequency Once the generator has been enabled here you can adjust his output level using the first fader The frequency of the tone generator is set by the second fader in a range from 50 Hz up to 5000 Hz with 1 Hz resolution GEN1 and GEN2 Signal Type Genl Signal Type ce Once the gen
56. cing set by the keyer NOR Jack tip dot jack ring dash jack shaft ground REV Jack tip dash jack ring dot jack shaft ground Page 41 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 KEYER SETTING frame SPEED Use this fader to adjust the sending speed words per minutes PITCH Use this fader to adjust the centre of the receiver passband as well as the offset pitch of your CW carrier signal the tone pitch BKIN DELAY Use this fader to set break in delay when in semi break in mode WEIGHT Use this fader to adjust dot space Dash ratio Page 42 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 METERS TAB F5 l AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 Refresh TimeBase ce eo ee Graph Display N a ia Rtx meter switch AL a Analog Type B m RX Display TE tt Absolute CS i C y In this tab you have all the rig meters available Graphic display frame F 100 This graphic display the strength of the signal received or the output power in the time domain REFRESH TimeBase frame Refresh TimeBase ee 7 Here you can select three different time base for the graphic X axis Fast allows you to see better details on the signal Slow allows you to have a better look on what s happening to the signal in longer time Page 43 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 GRAPHIC Display frame Graph Display Three level of zoom are available to
57. combine with the three different time base to achieve the way your preferred display GRAPH appearance frame Ter arid of ieni siz 9 ArQual i Customize the appearance of the graphic display LINE FILL Line Fill cycle between Lines and Bars This is an example of the Fill mode GRID SIZ Grid size allow to select two different size of the grid GRID OFF Grid off allows to see only the signal on the graphic _ a i ave ri A BW a OS HI QUAL HiQual when enabled add a better anti aliasing on the shape of the signal received but require more processing power ENABLE frame With this control we can decide what instrument to display You can switch on off the graphic display You can switch on off the analogue meters You can switch on off the frequency display remember that all the display enabled together may require more pc resources Page 44 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 TX frame TTT TE TTT 13 8v pe 1 0 On this digital meters you may have all the indications together ID is the drive current VD is the drive voltage SWR is the current reading from SWR meter CMP is the compression level when processor on ALC is the Automatic Level Control when exceeded the number on the right is red and a red line is Surrounding the bar graph PWR is the output power You can disable any of the meters clicking on the button on the left of the bar graph waT j ac mii 38
58. de Set your Pitch tone into the Keyer setting frame for example to 700 Hz just as example DSP display CW dsp CW Titer Page 129 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 When done click CW Disp into the DSP display frame to enable it DSP display Look at the Spectrum scope You can see that the spectrum has been zoomed around 700 Hz and a yellow line appeared at 700 Hz centre There is approximately 100 Hz of spectrum to view below and above the centre of the signal BF Spectrum _ _ 0 600 0 650 0 700 0 750 0 600 On the waterfall you can see the signal of a CW station and we can easy try to tune that Station using the help of this scopes too BF Spectrum BF Waterfall ne H n if Pat l 4 i H a A 4 4 A r h Ph E 1 m AA n iat ol r Bi i ie Ey DR ea Tk pa j Sl hd o ot rE w F Tii Aint ge Bui Saas oh reer nonai n Vaai ia ere dhi I Eii Pe eee BF Scope BF Spectrum wm ARTA N Page 130 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 If we press again on the CW DSP button we disable it and the spectrum is zoomed back OF Waterta You will see on the spectrum that the awh dsp pass band filter has been added and enabled with a frequency around the current Pitch frequency BF Spectrum BF Waterfall a ne If you have the Pc loudspeaker connected you will ear the filter added Now enable also the CW DSP button Now we see the zoom on the Spectrum around the 700 Hz your CW p
59. e amount of Shift for 29 MHz band typically for repeater access can be set using this fader RPT Dir frame Rpt Dir SIMPLEX SIMPLEX When Simplex is enabled then TX and RX frequency are the same NOR enable shift of TX frequency TX frequency RX frequency Offset REV enable shift of TX frequency TX frequency RX frequency Offset RPT REV repeater reverse when enable this will swap RX and TX frequency changing shift direction This may also called as repeater eliminator for example try to work the station directly if the repeater went down It can be used also to check the station at the input of the repeater to control if a direct qso will be possible FM CTCSS frame OFF switch off any tone ENC enable the sub tone encoder select the tone to be used from the list box on the left ENC DEC enable the sub tone encoder and decoder to squelch the signals with the selected tone Page 61 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 SQUELCH frame me uelch You can set the Squelch threshold using this fader FM DEV frame You can adjust FM deviation using this fader 10m Repeater Reg1 frame Recall some preset frequency mode shift for repeater access RH1 set VFO a to 29 660 set Fm mode set a shift of 100 Hz TX 29 560 RH2 set VFO a to 29 670 set Fm mode set a shift of 100 Hz TX 29 570 RH3 set VFO a to 29 680 set Fm mode set a shift of 100 Hz TX 29 580 RH4 set VF
60. e same as for the and It s just a second set that gives you the possibility to setup two always available different tuning steps Use multiply and divide on Keyboard numeric pad TUNING Track bars frame Tuning Trackbars Click to switch on VFO A if you want to use the two tuning track bars on the VFO A Click to switch on VFO B if you want to use the two tuning track bars on the VFO B You can switch on both VFO A and VFO B In this situation both VFO will be tuned to the same frequency and moved together Page 14 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 FINE and COURSE track bars frame i l i Aaoi O O O ON Jgipi 14150 24200 Jgz50 ETEN 14350 Click and hold on the handle of the Fine track bar and move left or right to fine tune the selected VFO up and down frequency you can continue to move your mouse to the right or left to continue to increase or decrease VFO frequency the marker on the tack bar will jump to the left side once moved over the right side Click and hold on the handle of the Coarse track bar and move left or right to tune the selected VFO up and down frequency DIAL Keypad frame Dial Keypad Select A to enter a frequency for VFO A Select B to enter a frequency for VFO B Click on the numbers 0 9 to dial the frequency Click ENT to confirm Page 15 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Example Click on A Click on 1 then 4
61. erator has been enabled here you can choose what type of waveform will have the generator Page 100 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Generator Sine output You can mix two generator together for example to produce a 2T test tone output signal Fl 700 Hz F2 1900 Hz for testing of SSB and linear amplifier remember disable Input ON i i Hy ni j 100 120 1 40 Setup Sources Scopes Filters PlayRec Source ETX s aa Ii E Geni level and frequency Input ON i i Bentong t Gent level and fequency To precisely adjust the frequency click on the generator frequency fader and then move the frequency up or down using the keyboard cursors keys or PageUp and PageDown keys Page 101 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 GENERATOR 3 White Noise frame Gens white noise level Generator 3 is a white noise generator The fader adjust the output level Output example BF Scope BF Spectrum BF Waterfall HEH n hy i Ni ta i il tt Mixing Live input with generator tone If for any reason you want to mix your signal coming from the rtx with the signal generated by one or more of the tone generators just enable both Input On and Gen On and set the levels of the source In the following example have added a marker to the live signal at 3189 Hz Setup apem Filters PlayRec Page 102
62. eta V 0 0 3 0 _ OF X BF Waterfall Fe cUUU Page 92 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Audio equipment To use this module you must have an audio input output with the rig so at least one soundcard must be available and is enough but with two soundcard is recommended and easier to use Ideally you should have the following blocks _to RTX from RTX System In ystem Out For the RTX sound device block suggest something like the following setup Audo Soundcard audio interface USB aud aie niertaot Teh i i oi In this way you will have a dedicated soundcard for the rig connected to the Packet jack Anyway if you are using the rig for AFSK digital modes anything you will be using now it s already enough to use this module What you can do here Basically you can have a BF monitor of your received signals It will helps you to see and understand a little bit more how some of the rig controls are working Plus you can add to the live signals displayed on the instruments a drawing of where your rig controls are in use mean you can see your IF Shift and Width Notch Contour curves plotted on the audio spectrum scope You have some tone generators plus a white noise generator that allows you to produce test tone for rig alignment or measure You can add equalization to your received audio signal add a pass band filter add a band stop filter You can do
63. etting of the Speech processor will be transferred to the rig Send All If you click Send All all the information will be transferred to the rig Realtime Send If you enable Realtime send to ON then as soon as you move any fader it is immediately sent to the rig This is useful for example if you want to monitor the changing you are doing in real time so you can have the feedback of any step you adjust with Realtime Off you can set several parameters and then change all in one shoot LEVELS frame Mic Proc 47 35 You can adjust Microphone gain and Processor level RF POWER control This track bar is the same as the RF PWR knob on the rig It set the power output level while in SSB or AFSK mode remember that alSo mic gain is participating in the global output power level Page 25 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 PTT frame TX Button Click it once to switch you rig into TX click it again to switch back to RX VOX Press to activate or deactivate the VOX circuit MONI Press MONI to enable disable the Audio Monitor of the rig Once MONI is enabled you can set the audio monitor level using the fader POWER frame This Power bar meters just gives you an idea of the power output level MAIN Display and Controls frame ee Proc Equalizer Mic Equalizer Mic Equalizer
64. ey Cor laa Gait 2000 ts aac E N a a Blue ub1 Contrast Umber ub2 Umber Let see the column available First column it s the menu item number 1 149 This correspond to the menu number in the rig Second column we are the Group of the item AGC Display DVS Keyer General Sub band if shift etc as defined by Yaesu The third column is the Function of the Item Fast delay Fast hold etc The fourth column is the Description of the setting set the delay time for the AGC set hang time of the AGC etc The fifth column is the available values for that setting 20 4000 fast slow etc The sixth column is the value that the rig has in this moment in his internal menu 300 ms blue etc The seventh column is the default Yaesu preset value for that setting 20 ms slope etc Page 71 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 We can sort the list by any of the column simply clicking on that column Example to sort by group type een ad ea RTX Values Default Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the ACC a a MID mode of the Main band VFO A receiver i Sa ma akma msec step Sets the delay time for the AGC FAST mode of the Main RE 1 Acc Fast del 3 msec 20 0300 ms 300 ms band VFO A receiver msec step Sets the delay time for the AGC MID mode of the Main re een 3 Acc Mid delay y f msec 20 1000 ms 700 ms Rand VFO A receiver f msec step Sets the delay time for the AGC SLOW mode
65. fall 0 00 Now the Rig Notch is set to WIDE Click on WIDE button in MC interface so we switch to NARROW You can see that the line in the Spectrum is now pink and the hole in the waterfall is a lot more narrow now BF Spectrum BF Waterfall eames ri t iN a DA E a ul Har dit i I Hh fui eee bs sp Ni i Leis sh Ree Aa l miei rare Ati a kj eat int i Sea k Las ule HE TENOR ant E NA TEATAN RA 4 E Ti pinn i i iit Tn Ep E aril RE Thee Me in ie he A 1 E HAT Li Ta Page 127 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Now you can experiment and combine the three rtx filter together in real conditions in the band and check the shapes on the AWH DSP to fast and easy understand where your setting are working Example of all the three display enabled i DSP display BF Waterfall You can also add the audio filter of AWH DSP for example here you see a Notch and a Band Stop added to the audio signal BF Spectrum BF Waterfall ni py geil ie ae J 2 iY is ity i usin P f Ht ie Mey a he Bis iz r J T ai 4 1 Feel free to experiment here you can t break anything Page 128 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 RTX CW FOLLOWER This time we start from AWH MC CW tab Adjust the windows so you can see the scopes and use MC buttons BF ropi BF Spoctuim AF Waterfall AeA HE Epis sA baia E Dia eae ee Fa e H l ana E Fe E raa ee tiG iai ja CP ee e Tee Switch the rig to CW mo
66. file system B microsoft Excel FT 2000 PEP Menu Setting xis G He Moe Us si zza Js sd Fom tm Strumenti Dat Finestra 2 Adobe PDF Digitare upa domanis Idaa saa FA 465 B Y 2 fer tlildw Ss o c se ae we Al fe Num a OS ae ee ee G eS nee Pe od Eaire Function criptior Ayal Valuer RTH Valuce Dofaultrot lartor Com FT 2000 PEP Monu lirt nf 1470622010 11 49 37 MC 0 0 3 Ure Ric 1AGC Fart delay Sotrthe dolay time far the AGC FAST made af the Main band YFO Firecoiver 207 4000 mroe 20 mrocirtop 0300 me SOA mr 2 AGC Farthold Sotrthe hangtime of the AGC poak voltage forthe AGCFAST made of the Main band YFO Arecciver O 2000 mroc 20 mrocirtop 0020 mer 20 mer 3 AGC Mid delay Setrthe delay time forthe AGC MID mode of the Main band VFO A receiver 20 4000 mroc 20 mroctrtep 1000 mr TOO mer 4 AGC Mid hold Sotrthe hangtime of the AGC poak voltage far the AGC MID made af the Main band YFO A receiver O 2000 mroc 20 mrocirtop 0020 me 20 mr 5 ace Slow delay Sete the delay time far the AGC SLOW made af the Main band YFO Arecoiver 20 4000 mrpc 20 mrocirtop 2480 me 20000mer 6 AGC Slowhold Sotrthe hangtime of the AGC poak voltage For tho AGC SLOW made af the Main band YFO A rocoivor 0 2000 mroc 20 mrocirtop 0030 mr imr 7 DISPLAY Dirplay calor Soloctr the Dirplay color uhon the optional DataManagement Unit DMU 2000ir connected bL1 Coal Blue Blo Contrart Bluc BL bL1 Conl Blue BLY Cool Elus DISPLAY _ Motor Dimm r Setting of the motor bri
67. for RTTY receive RTTY RX DSP frame _ Rtty RX DSP Shape Feij sharp RTTY RX DSP filter shape soft or sharp and slope steep medium or gentle Page 59 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 FM TAB F9 i AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 Status at a glance TX RX OFFSET 0100 KHz SHIFT Normal CTCSS Encoder Off Decoder Off TONE bL 0 Hz DEV S50 S L 10 m Shift 10 m Fm Chan 10 m Fm band ch scan Rpt Dir 670Hz Ss M a Start scan Stop scan x msa Ea eee 7 _ Fast Slow ee 770 10 m Repeater Regi 77 0 Hz 79 7 Hz a PATA 82 5 Hz no Es sia Tatiemiieiaieen lt SIMPLEX 88 5 Hz 91 5 Hz 10 m Repeater Reg 2 3 10 m Simplex Reg 1 International Simplex 10 m Dunn llc a lca TOP ee 6 m Repeaters ITA cisi 50 2 50 3 r t50 i ae Dunna 6m Repeaters regions 6 m Repeaters ITA si i In this tab you can use your rig for fm communications on 29 and 50 MHz STATUS ata glance frame Status at a glance RX 29 b20 Ahz TX 29 520 Ahz OFFSET L00 Khz SHIFT Normal CTCSS Enc OFT Bec Off TONE b 0 Hz BEV SO SaL Here you have the RX frequency the TX frequency Offset Shift Tone encoder and decoder status Tone frequency Deviation level Squelch level MODE frame FRITI Set you rig mode to FM or to FM narrow Page 60 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 10m Shift frame 0100 Hz Th
68. g Once done you may Nave a situation similar to this one Dai A En ta Fat Ge AA Moira 1G Farerams TE Gerari 7 Dagon 12 Fee 13 Son INOT Hirss oa 119 Uitg 1R ETON Heth Tem aan hen i Now moving the mouse over the graph you will read the frequency of that point Tuning use Main Rx use Sub Rx For example now I m reading 14 171 Now as soon as press and hold SHIFT on the keyboard the right will tune at the indicated frequency If move the mouse left or right on the display my rig will follow immediately when release shift button it stop following the mouse cursor TUNING frame You can set the rig to follow the mouse cursor using the Main VFO or Sub VFO simply setting Use Main or Use Sub into Tuning frame If we don t want to keep the SHIFT button pressed just click Track button Now as soon as the mouse move on the graph the selected VFO will follow until we click again on Track to disable it Page 50 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 We can zoom on an area of the display simply clicking in a point holding the left mouse button down and drawing a square around the area of interest Scan using RX Once you release the mouse button the display will zoom to that area You can then use the wheel mouse to still Zoom in or zoom out that area Example of a full Zoom out with mouse wheel If we press and hold Control and then we press and hold the left mouse button we can
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70. he fader to move the centre frequency of the filter WIDE You can use Wide button to switch to Narrow and then Narrow to go to Wide pass band for the notch filter DNF If you press DNF the auto notch feature of the rig will be enabled or disabled A graphic idea of the notch filter is plotted on the IF graphic display cyan curve Page 31 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 ROOFING frame Click on the button to cycle through the 3 6 15 KHz or auto position for Roofing filters SSB RX DSP frame sharp rade SHAPE Set the Shape of the RX DSP filter to Soft or Shape SLOPE Set the Slope of the RX DSP filter to Steep Medium or Gentle RX CARRIER point frame IX Carrier point LSB l LI l l LI I I LI l I LI 0 Hz USE l LI l l LI l I LI l I LI 0 Hz Allows you to move the RX carrier point for LSB or USB mode Use the corresponding faders to adjust it AGC frame You can inspect or program the three Automatic Gain Control setup using those controls Select Slow Mid or Fast to enable and view the current Delay and Peak hold settings You can change the Delay and Peak hold setting of any of the three preset OFF will totally disable your AGC circuit SLOP button will cycle through SLOPE and NORMAL type of AGC intervention FREQUENCY frame P6 5c3 94 SUT EEL LLL Display the main VFO A frequency and the main RX signal indication Page 32 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8
71. hich is connected to the rig input but you should pay attention to possible audio feedback Devices C ES None Default aundhias Digital Audio SB Live 24 bit External KEEA Once you select the right device click OK System In Click this button to select the device that is connected to your pc microphone This can be also a webcam or a usb microphone Anyway this is optional If you don t have a pc mic source you only lose the possibility to do pre recorded audio files If you don t have a pc mic source you can set the input to none Devices Logitech Mic Pro 3000 SourndMas Digital Audio 1 SB Live 24 bit External Once you select the right device click OK Page 96 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 ENABLE frame Ad 0 START Once you have setup From Rtx To RTX System Out System In then you can click START The audio devices will be opened and the program enabled STOP If for any reason you want to stop all the audio just click on Stop button Once Stop has been pressed you will be able to select a different sound device if you want to or you can close the window of this module Once the module has been started you may start listening the audio from the loudspeakers this depends from how you have set your devices and from the mixer of your windows system The window should looks like the following with the scopes enabled sf Awh MC DSP Beta V 0 0 3 0 Of X 1 Theme
72. ick and hold TX WATCH to temporary monitor on your the transmission frequency when operating in split mode MEMORY frame Memory O7 000 00 Click the UP or DOWN arrows or rotate the dial knob to change the memory channel MW will write to the current selected memory channel Press MR to switch to memory mode and recall the selected memory channel Press gt A to copy the selected memory channel into VFO A Press gt B to copy the selected memory channel into VFO B USB 60 Meter channels frame USB 60 Meter channels Australia ECWIA WICEN Emergency Click ON to activate the monitoring of 60 meters band Click the up or down symbol to cycle true the channels Page 13 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 NUMPAD frame Select which VFO A you want to affect If A is highlighted then the tuning will affect VFO A If B is highlighted then the tuning will affect VFO B If both A and B are highlighted the both the VFO will be affected maintaining the offset between the two VFO s Select a tuning step click the down arrow and choosing the desired item from 1 Hz to 1 MHz Now you can press the add or minus on the keyboard numeric pad Each time you press the or your VFO A or VFO B or both will be increased or decreased of the selected tuning step If you press and hold or your rig will continue to increase or decrease the frequency NUMPAD frame This is th
73. ilter on the signals coming from RTX In device BAND PASS Band Pass enable or disable band pass filter on the signals coming from RTX In device Page 112 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 GRAPHIC EQUALI ZER frame Graphic Equalizer When enabled you can move the faders and listen in real time the differences Also you can see the effect of what are you doing on the scopes For example if you cut the high frequencies you will see on the waterfall a less populated display in the upper area when running in H DISP mode Click on the Equalizer button to listen and see the effect when the equalizer is in or out of the circuit In the following example you can see the 1 5 KHz amplified on the Spectrum wihich has been zoomed on the right and more lights in the 1 5 KHz area of Waterfall which has been zoomed to ends at 3 KHz approximately BF Scope BF Spectrum BF Waterfall n Ion l l KI ETT n ii j y j TRAA ets I F pe i La Scopes Filters PlayRec Graphic Equalizer ii Page 113 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 NOTCH Filter frame Notch filter Feta LEE EE EEE EEE BEE ELE LE LIJA LLLI EEL ELL EEE ELELLELELELLELLol ee When enabled you can move the faders and listen in real time the differences The first fader define the starting frequency of the band stop The second fader define the ending frequency of the band stop Anything inside will be attenuated You can see the fre
74. itch and the Band Pass filter together on the display and enabled the waterfall now is a lot more tiny BF Scope BF Waterfall dell AAL AIRAN Ka 111i 1 i 7 1 IIF wi Miika i waaa T La LL baii i os f jl LL i A Cm Bd If you move your Pitch frequency you will see that the Spectrum zoom will follow or the Band Stop frequencies will be automatically adjusted Page 131 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Example of CW FILTER but with CW Pitch set to 1050 Hz BF Scope BF Spectrum i BF Waterfall BF Waterfall Page 132 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 THAT S ALL FOLKS ftor now hope you enjoy something of this toy Special thanks to my wife ROSS 1 love you Rick Page 133
75. ke gain at eleven 40 on 2 Fist Talker PE2KM Yaesu MH 31 8B400xx display proc at 10 30 on display Many compliments about the audio Frans PASCA Heil Pro Set 6 Works fine with me I use a Heil HCS element ales These are my settings when using either the W2IHY 8 Band EQ and EQPlus or the KUR KUR Heil PR 40 Optional Behringer Rack Gear 1 1 Clean Punchy VE3GNO Heil PR 40 7D PR40 W 2IHY EQ Plus W2IHY 8 Band EQ a A fin Page 87 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 You can sort the list by each column you want BEUS li Ss sorted Index Setting name Callsign Microphone Ser Num Note E Fi AUDIO SETUP 9A3TN Yaesu MH 31 8K360106 oS e E i thanks 6 Microphone EQ A61BK Yaesu MD 200 Optional khalid THE H Normal AB4BJ Heil Goldline Optional Speech Processor is turned off so menus 134 through 142 are not active for this setting oie Thwe mic I am using is the Audio Tecnica ATR 30 My audio bandwith using it with my own Hector s AD4C OTHER MIC Optional voice goes from 80 to 3000Hz If you want to see the TX BW graphs sweeping this radio by 1 1 the patch input connector at the rear and the results when fed by the front panel yI gi 62 CE2WZ Yaesu MD 100 1 1 sam CARLOS Ct2FXW Heil Pro Set Optional 1 1 ACHIM DBiNAC Yaesu MD 200 1 1 At the moment running FT 2000 PEP Mic Gain at 49 Proc Level at 19 Proc button is KLJNN PR 40 DF3QE Yaesu MH 31 1 Disabled Mic source is front connecto
76. l the setting are again into the rig Easy Page 76 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 RTX MEMORIES frame on RTX memories 00 99 Upload Here you can store your memory channels into a file or reload your memory file to the rig DOWNLOAD Click Download to save memory information from rig to file UPLOAD Click Upload to load memory information from file to rig You can open the save file to see it it s a normal text file I Hwy Peet Ble ee el Ele Hadjine Famam MaMa F sh ME 40 MEM FT 2000 memories of 1 1 2009 6 09 51 PM a MROOLOLEOO000 0000002 00000 g Cie CD Coe MROO tO 2600000000001 Oogdg MRO S297 COCO COOO0O2 00000 MROLOLALLOOOO 000000200000 MRO LOSS OO OOOooO 200000 Please do not edit the file because it may become corrupted and unusable BAND STACK frame Band stack Reload STORE Click Store to download all the Band stack information VFOs Modes etc from the rig to a disk file RELOAD Click Reload to send your band stack from file to rig You can open the save file to see it it s a normal text file E Rarnctiteck_eoamply ist Boceo nde Ele podia Farma yin 2 Paehet 40 Gand stack Register FT 2000 PEP av 00 05 2000 21 M 17 a MOOT Please do not edit the file because it may become corrupted and unusable Page 77 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 RTX SNAPSHOT frame f RTX Snapshot control panel STORE Store button download the rig knob co
77. ntrol panel values and switch position an store it to a file RELOAD Reload will upload the knob and switch information back to the rig panel CW KEYER Backup frame Reload STORE Click Store to save to a disk file the current five TEXT message of the keyer RELOAD Click Reload to send the keyer TEXT message back to the rig f AwhMC_CwKeyerText txt Blocco note File Modifica Formato Visualizza FAwhmc 40 Cw Keyer text FT 2000 PEP at 14 06 2010 12 51 49 KM1CQ CQ CQ DE I1XXX I1XXX I1XXX KM2 KM3BK I1XXX I1XXX 5NN 5NN TU KM4BK I1XXX I1XXX 5NN 5NN PSE QSL KM5 end Note the MESSAGE recorded from paddles are not backed up and restored only TEXT message EQUALI ZER To Disk frame Equalizer to Disk EXPORT The Export button will save your current equalizer 40 memory presets TX tab to a file on disk You can save as many file to increase the number of equalizer memories if you want IMPORT The Import button will load the file back into the 40 memory preset of Mc You can share your files with other friends if you want The saved file is a text file you can inspect it if you want d iia iito oe bbs hd P ia iJi Pi H ri 19 0 451 000 bo Re oo dS 8 bbs A h hh hae Se aa pers Pl et i D h iA ee ey eii z Brat k ded Wr B D Bd ty Eod De J Bu SR RL Be ya oy ee A Le ede Ae P he Ph ee Page 78 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 RTX PRESET To Disk frame E RX preset
78. o wake it up when it is sleeping The only way it will not work is if you switched off the back switch of the FT 2000 or switched off the power switch in FT 2000D PSU POWEROFF If you check this flag when you close MC the rig will be switched off SAFE Setting frame Save RTX Settings If you flag this checkbox then all the 149 rig setting will be saved before you start using MC You can experiment as you like and at the end the program may reload all the values that the rig had before starting the session Note start up time will be longer if checked ABOUT button atai Oe oe AA Lr i Credits and Special thanks DONATE button If you find this utility of any value you can consider a donation Page 9 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Quick tour of the functions The main windows is divided into 15 tabs Dial 1 Tx 2 Rx 3 Cw f4 Meters 5 Panoramic 6 General 7 DigSet 8 Fm 9 Swr F10 Menu read 11 Utility 12 FT 2000 com HotKeys Tem You can switch to any tab by mouse clicking the first 12 tabs are accessible also with keyboard functions keys from F1 to F12 The tab available are DIAL F1 Main rig controls VFO tuning Memory management Band recall Mode selection Split etc TX F2 SSB voice transmission Mic equalizer TX bandwidth Voice keyer management etc RX F3 Receiver settings IF Shift IF Width Contour Preamp Attenuators AGC c
79. oad a file and as soon as you press PLAY you can see your rig switch into TX mode If you press PAUSE then the audio file is paused but the rig will stay in TX mode If you press RESUME the file resume it s playback and the rig stay into TX mode When the file reach the end the rig switch to RX or if you press Stop then the rig switch to RX too You can load up to four files together in the player You saw how to use OPEN and PLAY Now the first time you press PLAY1 or PLAY2 or PLAY3 you will be asked to select an audio file Then each time you press PLAY1 or PLAY2 or PLAY3 that file will be played Page 120 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 SSB BF Source frame S56 BF Source Frant Wit FRONT MIC Select FRONT MIC if your audio soundcard or interface output is connected to the front Mic input connector of the rig PACKET JACK Select PACKET JACK if your audio soundcard or interface output is connected to the Packet jack of the rig this normally is the default condition With this set you can input the BF from the packet jack but use LSB USB modes you don t need to switch to PKT RTX Monitor frame RIX Monitor Enable this button if you want to see on the scope spectrum waterfall your own modulation when you goes into TX mode SOURCE RTX frame Source ETX Input Gn Enable Disable of RTX input just to mute the rig audio for convenience operation Page 121 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8
80. oe LET s AIT nin AUTOR DQ i aly Llr 7 i EAN j ea sy Lin ZOOM L fader Use the Zoom Left fader to zoom the left part of the Spectrum scope In the following example you can see the ZoomL fader moved a little bit to the right and the scale of the Spectrum is now starting at 1 5 KHZ instead of 0 0 KHz which is the default setting Note that in this example the ZoomR is still in action so the view now is from 1 5 to 4 00 KHz Spectrum controls r TE OO ML Fs 4 i j i ff Z P nR Lin Page 107 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 In the following example you are watching at the output of two generator one set to 1000 Hz and the other set to 1200 Hz Genl level and frequency I I I I l l L I I l l l l l l l PEEP PEPE EP rrr rrebe eee Gen level and frequency l l l I l l I l I I l I l l l l PEPE ETE PEPE PP Pb PPP Pee The ZOOM faders have been set so that the Spectrum display start at a little bit less the 900 Hz and ends at a little bit more then 1400 Hz Spectrum controls r 2 T Line f 2 V scale Tec ZoomOn EE E ert aain ga am jae a e th This is what you see on the displa LIN button You can toggle from LIN to LOG with this button Lin set the display with a linear scale Log set the display with a logarithmic scale Example pay attention to the X scale on the left you have a LIN and on the right a LOG displa
81. of 20 dB Bandwidth of 1 IF Width has been fully opened and Contour frequency moved from down to up and the to centre BF Spectrum BF Waterfall Page 125 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Now set the Contour to 2000 Hz Gain 40 dB Bandwidth 4 Look at the scopes You can see on the Spectrum the white line at 2 KHz left and right margin are now Yellow lines the filled area are now blue When the Contour area is filled in Red mean the gain is set to increase the signal when is filled in blue mean the gain is set to attenuate the signal You can see the deep hole in the waterfall at about 2 Khz because you are attenuating the signal BF Spectrum BF Waterfall Now go back to AWH MC switch off Contour switch off CONT into DSP disp frame and instead switch on NOTCH Go to the Notch frame and enable the filter clicking on NOTCH button The fader will become enabled and an indication will appear on the MC IF graphic display arrow 556 filters RF gain GAIN IF filter controls DNF Page 126 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Now look at AWH DSP You will see a fucsya line at about 1 3 KHz on the spectrum and a deep but quite wide hole in the waterfall It s easy to see where the rig notch filter is working BF Waterfall 4 ip rink TE ole 4 a giog Ea Tet MAC a che a E Just for test move the Notch Frequency up or down to see the point of intervention moving on the waterfall BF Spectrum BF Water
82. ohe CAT Commeneci be Save the files Close MC Open HRD and load the saved macros files Page 79 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 EQUALIZER To Email frame Equalizer to Email Emal If you have a friend which is using MC you can send an email to him with your current 40 Equalizer presets so he can save it in his MC and check it ro Testor Fie Modfcea Veusizzs jiewo Foseio ftumend Apor Jiwa Accapt eG U message rior cuo Fraas oo Oggetts at anaionr wrest MI Accached is che EQ sectings from ny FT 2000 PEP The file is named Axvh NC z 2000 PEP EQ from Ric txe If you Would like So cest these settings save the attached file to your pe Cpen Awn ae na select she Utility cab Go to the Equelicer to Disk box and export backug your BQ settings first Me Import and inport che new ZO settings go 11 file delle impcstaziosi Gell equalizzatere cel mic FT 2000 FZP i chiana Awn MO FT 2000 PEP EQ from Rac txt j vuci provarie eas salvalo sul tuo computer Boi apri Awk XO cosa sel siquadse Equalites to Dis hice ger salvere i t 3 seg Pes clicca gu Import e carice 3 nuovi sting dell equaisezateose 2 you Go net have AWH Master can aowniec chis free BETA utility coking et the follewing URL R W4165 com 07 eect vare Atm Se ach hei ANH Masters Cosstasder p ci scaricar oc tility SETA grecuice guardando sui quests URI Beer sviaveh bis es com BACKUP Press BACKUP to download f
83. on Description Aval Values RTX Values Master F is gt lar FT 20 PEP Menu list of 14 06 2010 11 49 37 MC v 0 0 8 Sets the delay time for the AGC FAST mode of the Main 2 000 1 jac Fest delay ile msec 20 0300 ms band VFO A receiver msec step 4 0 2000 msec Te age F held Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AGC 20 Doan ee VFO A i FAST mode of the Main band receiver Sets the delay time for the AGC MID mode of the Main 26 e008 3 acc Mid delay S Y a msec 20 1000 ms msec step 0 2000 msec 4 acc Mid held Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AGC 20 BA2B om MID mode of the Main band VFO A receiver SE Sets the delay time for the AGC SLOW mode cf the Main Got este 5 AGC Slow delay 3 msec 20 2480 ms band VFO A receiver msec step 0 2000 msec Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AGC 2 6 acc Sto hata SLOW mode of the Main band VFO A receiver ae oa msec step i toe DGS hal _ i Bs e Gabe E m i 4 a ot ea a ee be a a he a m on aE Bei ee ee l o i l j ps Em pe a 2 es a es zz pe m i oi m me ae Sih ha ees eae tet ial m rE mij i k ET Ea E ARL LFH EHH gp H H H Perin a TOE ii m i ii EE FEE Enhi E lH H H See E E E E ap H ee lm ifn m m som a n T em m EXPORT frame EXCEL Click Excel if your system has Excel installed to export the menu list into an Excel spreadsheet so you can later manage it The file will be saved into your computer
84. ontrols etc CW F4 Program text message Pitch tone Speed QSK delay Paddle type Break in etc METERS F5 All the RTX meters at a glance PWR ALC SWR Comp ID VD Main and Sub RX s meter etc PANORAMIC F6 Setup your Main or Sub RX to do a band scan and plot the signal strength on a graphic display GENERAL F7 Set the general setting as VOX Dimmer Beep Tuning steps Rotator control etc DIGSET F8 Set the parameters related to the digital mode as the AFSK levels RTTY polarity etc FM F9 Set 29 and 50 MHz Fm repeater operations etc SWR 10 Check for the SWR in a band segment and plot the result on a graphic display MENU READ F11 Download and translate into human readable way all the 149 menus in use in the rig FT 2000 com Interface to upload and download the microphone equalizer settings to the web server HOT KEYS Assign frequently used functions to system wide hot keys TERM Experiment yourself with CAT commands Page 10 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 DIAL TAB F1 AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 Volume 44 L03 00 TE rO6 580 U05 EB VFO digit Inc Dec PVE DTTETETetetin LELPEEEPEE TPE PEP ts suo2 0 khz E Australia ECWIA WICEN Emergency This is the tab where you can control the VFOs and main parameters of the rig HAM BANDS and VFO Stack frame Each band stack can be selected clicking on the bands buttons Each time you pre
85. pan the display left or right If we click with the right mouse button we will have a context menu Copy Save Image As Un Zoom Undo All Zoom Pan Set Scale to Default Enable Tracking Storel Store2 Stores Store4 Here we can do the following when the menu appear COPY Copy the current display You can then paste it in you favourite graphic editing program for example SAVE IMAGE AS Save your current display to a disk file UNZOOM Undo your last zoom operation UNDO ALL ZOOM PAN Reset to default view undoing all zoom and pan operations ENABLE TRACKING Same as pressing and holding shift STORE 1 STORE 4 Store the current mouse frequency into a temporary memory Page 51 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 PANORAMIC VFO A temp mem frame We can store up to 4 frequency with right click on the graphic or using the 4 buttons We can recall and set the rig to each frequency clicking on Load Load4 LoadO will recall the frequency the rig was when entered this tab Page 52 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 GENERAL TAB F7 l AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 DigSet 8 Fm 9 Swr 10 Menu read 11 Utility 12 FT 2000 com HotKeys Term _ Tuning indicator TX Time Out timer countdown Antenna sel method Sub Rx Smeter Peak hold Dimmer Display p1 07 10 Watt Ba sO Wat io wet Rotator control Enable Beep level MAP i t MEM Clock S Temp Control
86. parated Value so you can later manage it also with spreadsheet No excel installation is required to export in this mode File can be opened with a text editor gt FT 2000 PEP Menu Setting csv Blocco note File Modifica Formato Visualizza Num Group Function Description Aval Values RTX Values Default set O Master Commander FT 2000 PEP Menu list of 14 06 2010 11 49 37 mc v 0 0 8 Usr Ric 1 AGC Fast delay sets the delay time for the AGC FAST mode of the Main band VFO A receiver 20 4000 msec 20 msec step 0300 ms 300 ms 2 AGC Fast hold Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AGC FAST mode of the Main band VFO A receiver 0 2000 msec 20 msec step 0020 ms 20 ms 3 AGC Mid delay Sets the delay time for the AGC MID mode of the Main band VFO A receiver 20 4000 msec 20 msec step 1000 ms 700 ms 4 AGC Mid hold Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AGC MID mode of the Main band VFO A receiver 0 2000 msec 20 msec step 0020 ms 20 ms 5 AGC Slow delay Sets the delay time for the AGC SLOW mode of the Main band VFO A receiver 20 4000 msec 20 msec step 2480 ms 2000 ms 6 AGC Slow hold Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AGC SLOW mode of the Main band VFO A receiver 0 2000 msec 20 a ms 20 ms 7 DISPLAY Display color Selects the Display color when the optional Data Management Unit DMU 2000 is connected bLi cool Blue B12 Contrast Blue bL3 Flash white ubi Contrast Umber ub2 Umber bL1 cool
87. point and then click lt lt Page 6 7 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 GO TO frame Go to START Click Start to set your VFO A to the beginning of the selected band segment END Click End to set your VFO A to the end of the selected band segment ATU frame ATU ATU enable or disable the rig Antenna Tuning Unit TUNE Once enabled press TUNE to do the automatic tuning of the ATU at the current frequency band TX frame Select which mode do you prefer to output a continue carrier from the rig Click RTTY FM or CW to sue the corresponding mode POWER frame Power Full Pwr alt Par hin Par Select the power output level that you want to use to check you SWR Page 68 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 TRACE A B frame We have two traces available on the graphic a red one and a green one We can set any of the two trace to display a combination of SWR reading Power Output Drive current Drive voltage SWR Check speed frame Click FAST if you want to do a fast SWR scanning of the range of frequencies Click MID to scan using a medium speed for checking SWR Click SLOW if you want to do an accurate SWR scanning of the range of frequencies SWR Stat frame _ SWR Start Stor CHECK Click CHECK to start the SWR measure Note that once you press Check the rig will go into transmission Be careful of what you are doing STOP Click STOP to abort the scanning and Txing
88. quencies on the right of the faders The total bandwidth is the difference of the two frequency On the spectrum display you can see the notch filter The red line is the centre of the filter On the following example you have a band stop filter set with start of 1000 Hz and end of 2000 Hz total bandwidth of 1 KHz and centre at 1500 Hz You can see very well the shape attenuated on the spectrum and the hole in the Waterfall due to the filter intervention BF Spectrum BF Waterfall Ek m a pi aF aly he eh i PAT P hy i eyi i ta a DAt A i n b d B gu Pi ie H Pe pee kn Tair s 1 Etat i T i AS T a 3 r is a i 1 yr i LA Ney r a E th Ti an ph sis heni on T et a ai E TE i Pi Ne ay at In this one you have a wider band stop starting from 2000 Hz and ending at 4000 Hz You can see in this example that the signals just drop down after 2 KHz BF Waterfall Page 114 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 BAND PASS Filter frame Band Pass filter i Lock When enabled you can move the faders and listen in real time the differences The first fader define the starting frequency of the band pass The second fader define the ending frequency of the band pass Anything outside will be attenuated You can see the frequencies on the right of the faders The total bandwidth is the difference of the two frequency On the spectrum display you can see the band pass filter The red line i
89. r The graph bar between VFO A and VFO B readout is just an indicator of the signal strength received by the main receiver TX USING frame Click on VFO A to transmit using VFO A Click on VFO B to transmit using VFO B This buttons are mutually exclusive Page 17 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 RX USING frame RX uwsing Click on VFO A if you want to enable RX from Main receiver Click on VFO B if you want to enable RX from Sub receiver You may have both receiver enable if you switch on VFO A and VFO B buttons You can disable both receiver if you switch off both VFO A and VFO B buttons MODE VFO A frame Here you can select which mode you want to use for your Main VFO A QUICK SPLIT frame Quick Split ey i ee ee WUICK SPL Select the offset you want to use for quick split moving the track bar When you press Quick Split the current VFO A is copied into VFO B frequency and mode then frequency offset is added subtracted then VFO B is set as the TX VFO CLARI FIER frame Clarifier You can set the clarifier using the track bar and fine tune it using the and buttons Clarifier can be selected for TX TX Clar or for RX RX Clar or both CLR will clear all clarifiers PTT frame Click the TX button to switch your rig into transmission Click it again to switch your rig back to receive mode Page 18 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 RTX Timed Tune frame This is norm
90. r Working on frequency 03 581 04 Mode is LSB at rll 24 11 2009 19 36 46 with user Hans Peter logged on the computer At the moment running FT 2000 PEP Mic Gain at 49 Proc Level at 19 Proc button is KIJNN PR 40 DF3QE Yaesu MH 31 1 Disabled Mic source is front connector Working on frequency 03 686 01 Mode is LSB at 1 1 24 11 2009 12 19 00 with user Hans Peter logged on the computer jt w 4 J O load and test one of the equalizer setting with your rig just click on the number on the left H 200L LOM Mic Setting List 2LLCDP Yaesu MD 100 6JO3s0097 Fist Talker PEZKM Yaesu MH 31 BB400xx Heil Pro Set l Click YES to load it or NO to cancel After pressing YES we will have ALL the stored information reloaded on our MC and we can see the equalizer curves levels bandwidth and also the name of the setting into the memory mnemonic text filed Page 88 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 CONFIRM SEND If you want to test several settings you may want to disable the Are you sure message ust click on the confirm send and the message will not popup Confirm send Download List fet to the MIC EXPORT frame MIC Export Setting name ran wee Firm ver EDSP ver E TTEF mod Note At the moment running FT 2000 PEP Mic Gain at 3b 1 Proc Level at be 1 Proc button is Disabledi Mic source is front connector Working on frequency 50 470 00 Mode is FM
91. re we have the first basic settings You must follow this steps to start up and use this module the first time next time you will need only to press Start SOUND CARDS frame Sound Cards Four button to setup the audio devices From RTX Click this button to select the device that is connected to your rig BF output This can be any soundcard or interface you have installed in the system this soundcard may be also a different to the one used to send audio to the rig Devices None Default Logitech Mic Fro S000 SoundMas Digital Audio SB Livel 24 bit Estertal FEA ee Once you select the right device click OK Page 95 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 To RTX Click this button to select the device that is connected to your rig BF input This can be any soundcard or interface you have installed in the system this soundcard may be also a different to the one used to bring audio from the rig If you don t plan to use the voice keyer or use the Signals generator you can set this device to none s Devices Ll a None Default SoundM cs Digital Audi FESE Once you select the right device click OK System Out Click this button to select the device that is connected to your pc loudspeakers If you don t have a separated audio board you can set it to none but you will not able to listen the audio processing If you don t have a separated audio board you can set it to the same audio board w
92. roc at 10 BO on display Many compliments about the audio Heil Pro Set Works fine with me I use a Heil HC5 element These are my settings when using either the W2IHY 8 Band EQ and EQPlus or the Heil PR 40 Optional Behringer Rack Gear Clean Punchy Heil PR 40 PR40 W2IHY EQ Plus W2IHYS Band EQ Great audio using the following external equipment with the AKG HSC 271 headset AKC Mic OTHER MIC Optional ji with condenser mic Preamp phantom voltage SM Pro Audio TOOL Great SSB Audio with the HC5 for Local and DX Contacts HC5 for DX Heil Pro Set Optional inne hata E E ste thanks Microphone EQ Yaesu MD 200 Optional khalid all settings were made by me and my elmer Jim he listen and I change the values while elmer one Yaesu MD 200 61080404 talking to him It took a houre and a half to finish Reports say its close to a hiel sound Yaesu MD 200 Optional MIC AGAIN 29 PROC OFF FOR QSO LOCAL PROC ON FOR CONTEST LIVEL 1 DLL WA Wat You can resize each column or you can order the column in the way you prefer FT 2000 COM Mic Setting List Confirm send Download List Index Setting name callsign Microphone Ser Num Note E Fi a I This works very well for me for a nice punchy audio I do have the MD 100 set to the Clean punchy audio ZLLCDP Yaesu MD 100 6J030097 following on the base a fae Filter on High Emphasis On and Low Cut 1 3 27 for DX 1 29 for ragchew Almost always used with proc on mi
93. rom rig and store 149 menu setting equalizer AGC AFSK levels etc memory channels frequency and mode band scan limits current RTX keyer text messages all the band stacks VFOs Freq Mode DNR Notch Contour Preamp RF Att Monitor Narrow Nb Roofing Clar Antenna and save to a disk file It does not store cat speed cat handshake cat timeout settings It does not save extended memory channels information It does not save antenna tuner memories voice memories CW paddle message RESTORE Press Restore to load a file and send it back to the rig This may be the most convenient feature to use when you want to do a full backup and restore of almost anything of your rig Please consider that it takes a while to do all the operations You will listen several click click from the rig during the process that s normal Close any other program who may cause interference to this process Bg Softee Agee sac T Fie Po WO Fit BACkAP FT POG FER Ghee Ja GAPE pigi pe Page 80 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 SPEECH ENGINE frame SOPech engine g ERT T T LOL T TTET mE i English Rate of Speech Freq If you are an Italian speaker then click the ENGLISH button to switch to ITALIAN Select one of the installed voices in your system additional sapi5 voices may added or acquired TEST Click TEST to verify that you can ear the voice reading a text You can adjust the rate of speech moving the faders FREQ Click F
94. s the centre of the filter On the following example you have a band pass filter set with start of 1500 Hz and end of 4000 Hz total bandwidth of 2 5 KHz and centre at 2 8 KHz Also on the waterfall the effects of the band pass are well visible BF Spectrum BF Waterfall 1 00 2 00 3 00 400 5 00 Page 115 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Another example of band Pass here the low limit is set to 1 5 KHz and upper limit to 2 5 KHz so a 1KHz bandwidth and at the moment it s centre is at 2 KHz but with LOCK ON we can move one of the fader and move this band pass filter around all the audio bandwidth Again the results are easy to understand looking at the waterfall COMBI NATION You can use any combination of the three filter to try to reduce the noise or to increase the readability Feel free to experiment from time to time to see what better fit the situation rapier Eas i i 1 Page 116 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 PLAYREC TAB J Awh MC DSP Beta V 0 0 8 0 O X eme w T BF Spectrum BF Waterfall Setup Sources Scopes Filters PlayRec Recorder SSB BF Source RTX Monitor Audio Mon Source RTX Here you have an audio recorder and an audio player that can be used also as a voice keyer RECORDER frame Select source Select which source you want to record You can record form the device defined as the one connected to the rig RTX you can record from
95. s to write your text message into the five rig location As soon as you start typing in one row you will notice that the Store RTX button will be highlighted This mean that the current message we see on the screen is not in the RTX keyer memory As soon as we press Store Rtx1 in the example above the message will transferred into the rig keyer in memory 1 you can then use it also form the rig if you press F1 on the rig Keyer Text Input THIS TA_AY_AEASNAGE THAT WILL BE_TRANARITTEDW Page 35 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 We can write up to five message Keyer Text Input MESSAGES Reveene rene ene cee Secon ANDER Me PICEA en ieRAa eo ee ot MRonehee Ne WEN ey OARS ER Meer met You can transfer only the message that you want SEND TO RTX frame If you want to transfer all the typed message you can press Send all text All the five message will be memorized into the rig keyer in the position from F1 to F5 Send to RTX F fend all text TEXT MEMORY Bank frame Text Memory Bank You can also pre program up to five preset of five message that you can later use when needed Type the message in the five rows and then press on of the Store button to set that group in that bank memory For example type the five message Keyer Text Input Rd Ud NN a eee el a a Ree Ue a le AR konna Gy aed De i ee TLAKA SNN SNN TU e i A ee ee oom iy TU PE TEXAS ae F bo ne eer eto acto eee ER
96. ser Ric logged on the computer Please fill inthe additional data field then click Export Then select the memory number you want to upload Fill in the other information and click WEB EXPORT Page 89 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 HOT KEYS TAB Mm Ana 7 AWH MC Beta v 0 0 8 build 0 Dial f1 Tx 2 Rx 3 Cw f4 Meters 5 Panoramic f Generel 7 DigSet 8 Fm 9 Swr 10 Menu read 11 Utility 12 FT 2000 com HotKeys Assignement E cirl WIN F ALT fe cTRL WIN ALT Flare fw win matt Read mode Play Voice msg 1 Play Voice msg 2 fe cirl WIN ALT cr wn ar cet W win F ALT Play Voice msg 5 STO quick store RCL quick recall Cee Own ar N E cr WIN F ALT Power Off and Quit fl ctr W Win 7 ALT PTT Har EWN Pat Timed Tune SYSTEM WIDE HOT KEYS Preliminary Test System Wide Hot Keys are shortcuts that are enabled also when the focus is on another application Example you can switch PTT on also when you are browsing an internet page just remember the buttons to press Plase note that not all the combination may correctly work Some combination may be already assigned by the operating system To disable a system wide hot key select Click Register To enable assign a letter and an optional combination of Control key Windows key Alt key Click Register Use it with care Here you
97. splay area CONTOUR and CW APF frame CONTOUR To enable and disable Contour press CONTOUR button Once enabled you can use the fader to make the adjustment RESET If you press Reset all the contour setting are zeroed APF While in CW mode if you press APF you will enable the automatic peaking filter tuned on the CW Pitch tone CONTOUR controls frame Contour controls eae 0 O O OGB O Y O Here you can adjust Frequency Gain and Bandwidth of the Contour filter Frequency Move this fader to adjust the frequency point of the contour Gain Move this fader to adjust the gain of the contour increase or attenuate Bandwidth Move this fader to adjust the bandwidth of the contour A graphic of the contour setting are represented in the display area Page 30 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 VRF frame VRF Press VRF to enable or disable the Variable RF filter or You can tune up or down the filter clicking on or buttons RX AMP ATT frame AMP Amp1 button enable the RX preamplifier 1 Amp2 button enable the RX preamplifier 2 IPO button enable the RX Intercept Point Optimization Those buttons are mutually exclusive ATT 6 dB 12 dB 18 dB enable the RX attenuator OFF remove any attenuator on the RX chain Those buttons are mutually exclusive NOTCH frame NOTCH Pressing NOTCH you will enable the RX notch filter Once enabled you can use t
98. ss on the a band button you cycle the three VFO s stack Up and Down button are used to move to the next programmed upper or lower band Page 11 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 ANTENNA frame Antenna Clicking on ANT1 or ANT2 will select the corresponding antenna RX will enable the additional RX only antenna when receiving ATU button will enable or disable the Antenna Tuner Once the Antenna Tuner is enabled the Tune button will allow you to begin automatic antenna tuning KNOB frame SLOW EE CERK Click SLOW to change to FAST and set dial tuning step to 100 Hz Click Lock RTX to lock the RTX control panel click again to unlock VOLUME frame Volume LLIAIN LEE ETTU Left cursor is used to set the main receiver AF gain Right cursor is used to set the sub receiver AF gain VFO Memory frame Click A gt M will copy the current VFO A into the currently selected memory Click M gt A will copy the currently selected memory info VFO A Click VFO to set the rig into VFO mode Click MEM to set the rig into Memory mode M Up and M Dwn buttons will increment or decrement the currently selected memory channel Q STO and Q RCL will store and recall frequency in the Quick Store banks Page 12 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 VFOs frame TA Watch Click A gt B will copy the VFO A into VFO B Click B gt A will copy the VFO B to VFO A Click A B will swap VFO A with VFO B Cl
99. the TX again MEMORIES frame Vf haere ore ae Eemo W Mic Equalizer 4 Proc Equalizer Mic Level Proc Level Tx Bandwidth Here you can store or recall up to 40 mic and processor equalizer preset Page 23 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Save Select a memory number using the up and down selector you can overwrite the existing preset if you want You can type a name to your saved memory to allows you to remember what condition you used it for When you click SAVE all the current nine mic equalizer parameters all the current nine processor equalizer parameters Microphone gain Speech processor level TX DSP Bandwidth are stored into that memory number Auto Inc on Save If Auto Inc on Save is checked after you press SAVE the memory number will be incremented by one to allow you to quickly store several different setting one after the other Load Select a memory number using the up and down selector The mnemonic name is displayed aS soon as you move up and down into the 40 preset If you want to see on the display how the selected preset is done without changing the actual setting into the rig press LOAD The setting is loaded but it is not applied to the rig AutoSend If you want to use it you have to select one of the buttons in the to RTX frame or enable also the AutoSend button Note that once a memory is recalled it has his mnemonic name associated As soon as you change something fro ex
100. the input device of you pc soundcard SYS you can record from what you mix and enable in the Sources tab of this module Page 117 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 REC Press this button to start a recording After pressing REC you will be asked to assign a file name a default one is proposed and where you want to save the recording Salva in Musica iwlawh x f T E Documenti recenti e Documenti Risorse del computer Nomefie McRecoring 14 193 MHzat 1606 2010 01 46 35 Risorse di rete _ Salva come Wave audio file wav x Click SAVE The recording will start and you can see the counter running Recorder RE RTX am The small vu meter at the right of source label is a presence monitor it shows you the direct source You can record all you qso or your pile up on disk for later review for example STOP Click Stop to terminate the recording Page 118 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 PLAYER frame Player This is your audio player or voice keyer OPEN Click Open to select which audio file you want to listen Navigate to the directory and filename you want to load Select it Open Audio Recording a Nome file McRecording 14 193 MHz at 16 06 2010 01 46 25 w Risorse di rete Tipo file Wave audio file wav v Click OPEN Verify that to SPK to system speakers is enable Now press PLAY You will see the counter start running A small presence
101. tton Lin set the Brightness display with a linear scale Log set the Brightness display with a logarithmic scale ZOOM You can zoom in the Waterfall scope in the same way as you see on the Waveform scope You can drag an area to zoom you can use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out you can pan and tilt the X and Y axis ZOOMOFF When you have finished Zoom Off button will reset the display zoom to the default values Page 109 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 DISPLAY frame Display Cope SE Spectrum ateral SCOPE Enable or disable the Scope on the form SPECTRUM Enable or disable the Spectrum on the form WATERFALL Enable or disable the Waterfall on the form When a scope is disabled the corresponding area is used by the other instruments You can resize the area moving it with the handles Example of some combination will follow Scope Large Spectrum Watefall Page 110 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Mini Scope Huge Spectrum Only the Waterfall Page 111 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 FILTERS TAB Awh MC DSP Beta V 0 0 8 0 O X gt Theme BF Spectrum BF Waterfall Filters Enable Equalizer Notch Band Pass FILTER ENABLE frame Filters Enable Equalizer Motch EQUALI ZER Equalizer enable or disable the nine band audio graphic equalizer on the signals coming from RTX In device NOTCH Notch enable or disable the band stop f
102. ust Mon level fader to listen from the speaker at a convenient level the played message Page 27 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 REPEAT You can set an auto repeat system if you want for a long CQ call for example Select the memory that you want to repeat over and over using the up or down arrows at the left of the Repeat button Set the delay time between each repeat using the up and down arrows at the left of the label Delay sec Click Repeat button You can interrupt the loop clicking on the Abort button that will appear Page 28 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 RX TAB F3 Pence E Deney 7 Dosa 40 Fa a i Bea ss This tab is where you can manage most of the receiver setting IF frame NOR NOR enable the fader for IF Shift Width RESET Reset button restore IF Shift to the centre and IF Width to the default NAR NAR enable narrow filter with the preset value NARROW SSB filters frame Narrow 55B filters You can choose which preset to use for SSB Narrow filter form the narrow SSB filter clicking on the corresponding button Page 29 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 IF filters controls frame IF filter controls IF Width 2400 Hz IF Shift 0 Here you can adjust IF Width and IF Shift IF WIDTH Move this fader to adjust the rig IF Width IF SHIFT Move this fader to adjust the rig IF Shift A graphic of your IF setting Shift and Width are represented in the di
103. ut frequencies above 1200 Hz approximately BF Spectrum BF Waterfall IF filter controls Page 123 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 If you leave the IF Width so closed and you move the IF Shift around the spectrum you will se the influence on the waterfall display Example BF Spectrum BF Waterfall Now reset IF Shift and Width Switch off IF button into the DSP display frame and switch on the CONT button Then Enable the CONTOUR filter clicking on the Contour button in the lower left screen into the Contour frame Now as an example using the faders try to set on the Contour controls frame the Contour frequency at about 2000 Hz Contour gain at about 17 dB Contour Bandwidth at about 6 u on EREN ee ee cand witn g Page 124 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 Check the AWH DSP window You see a new drawing superimposed on the Spectrum scope A white line is set at 2 KHz and two cyan lines at approximately 600 Hz and 600 Hz away of the 2 KHz point The area in filled with red diagonal lines On the Waterfall we see the increase of brightness around the 2 KHz point This is were you Contour filter is now working on the incoming signal BF Waterfall ari ie mn F are w 4 TET O WIN nh 1 h You can experiment reducing the bandwidth and moving the frequency up or down in the spectrum In the following example you see a Contour set with gain
104. vu meter will display the source Adjust the fader for a convenient output level Player Page 119 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 To SPK Click to SPK to enable or disable the audio playback from the system pc defined soundcard PAUSE Click this button to pause the audio playback RESUME Click this button to resume the playback from the point where has been paused STOP Click Stop to interrupt audio playback LOOP Click Loop if you want to playback the file in loop POSITION FADER Click or drag the position fader to move back and forth in the audio file To RTX Ehen this button is enable the audio output of the file is sent also to the device which has been defined for the RTX output You can adjust the output fader level for the correct output You can have this output enabled alone or together with to SPK as you prefer Note that if you enable TO RTX only the audio signal is ruoted to the rtx input but not PTT command is till sent To manage the PTT you have to deal with the AUTO PTT button and with the SSB BF Source TX ENABLE frame TX enable When you activate this button then each time an audio file is played from this system the PTT is set to TX and when the audio file is topped or it reach the end the PTT is set to RX The typical situation may be with AUTO PTT enabled to SPK enabled to RTX enabled In this mode you have a sort of voice keyer TX enable Auto PTT Now you can click OPEN and l
105. y ZOOM You can zoom in the Spectrum scope in the same way as you see on the Waveform scope You can drag an area to zoom you can use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out you can pan and tilt the X and Y axis ZOOMOFF When you have finished Zoom Off button will reset the display zoom to the default values Page 108 AWH Master Commander beta 0 0 8 WATERFALL Controls frame Watertall controls as Auto Brite sample H disp in AUTO BRITE Auto Brite enable or Disable to automatic brightness control of the Waterfall When OFF you can use the fader to adjust the brightness of the Waterfall Note that in this scope when a signal has more brightness means that it has a higher level X10 Enable or disable an attenuator for brightness when Auto brite is off KHZ Enable or disable the frequency axis display Sample Enable or disable the sample axis display H DISP This is a toggle button which cycle form H DISP to V DISP It change the Waterfall orientation In the example the Waterfall on the left is with H DISP and the one on the right is with V DISP Note that the KHz and Samples labels on the axis are switched according the display KHZ is on the Vertical axis in the first on the horizontal axis in the second BF Waterfall BF Waterfall a i i E Tate Sr SFr aor mL ry f m m orr rin 5 Fn miri 200 250 300 350 400 450 0 00 1 00 3 OU 4 00 LIN button You can toggle from LIN to LOG with this bu
106. y which is the number 3 the options were 0 1 2 3 Num Group Function Description Aval Values RTX Values a Maximum 10 20 50 144 TX GENERAL output power Selects a maximum output power limit 100 i r 3 100 W limit COLUMN operations Num Group Function Description Aval Values RTX Values bay aut Mester a o FT 2000 PEP Menu list of 14 06 2010 11 33 42 MC v 0 0 8 Usr Ric Commander a B a ee Sets the delay time for the AGC FAST mode of the Main beets al acc Fast delay Y i msec 20 0300 ms 300 ms band VFO A receiver msec step Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the Acc Ao A ae S CARE BOSS FAST mode of the Main band VFO A receiver Poe ae msec step Sets the delay time for the AGC MID mode of the Main 20 4000 3 Acc Mid delay F msec 20 1000 ms 700 ms band VFO A receiver msec step p Sets the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AGC ee E i ii oe MID mode of the Main band VFO A receiver 20 DEER SE msec step Sets the delay time for the AGC SLOW mode of the Main 20 ll 5 acc Slow delay Y msec 20 2480 ms 2000 ms band VFO A receiver msec step the hang time of the AGC peak voltage for the AGC Goa 2 a ee eee SLOW mode of the Main band VFO A receiver za msec step bL1 Cool Blue B12 Contrast z Selects the Display color when the optional Data Blue bL3 bL1 Cool 7 DISELAY e

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