How to use & configure your HT
(Yaesu FT-60)
Bob Dickerman WA1QKT
Goals
• Describe FT-60
• Change important settings on FT-60
• Manually program for and use:
– Simplex frequency
– Local repeater
• Use memory modes
– Recall
– Store
– Write memory to VFO
FT-60R
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Ham VHF/UHF
Television VHF/UHF
VHF aircraft band – AM!
Weather
Many other commercial & public safety
5W power, adjustable
Survey
• Who here tonight owns an FT-60?
• How many have FT-60s that were cloned or
programmed with M.A.R.C frequencies?
• How many have manually programmed their
FT-60 to work with a repeater?
• Anything in particular that you want learn
about?
Basic Controls (p. 3-5)
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VOL/PWR, PTT, SQL
multi-purpose DIAL (& arrow keys
MONI switch
LAMP switch
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Battery (pp. 8-10)
• Charge in 10 hours
• Don’t charge more than 24 hours
• For longest battery life, wait for Battery
Indicator (lower right) before charging
• Spare
Basic Tips
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Keep manual with radio!
Battery voltage displayed when turn on
If “lost in menu tree”, turn power off and on
Always LOCK keypad
If keypad is NOT LOCKed, do not touch keys
unintentionally
Don’t need these features for basic
operation!
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ARTS Automatic Range Transponder System
Vertex Wires Sister Radio Group
EPCS Enhanced Paging & Code Squelch
Emergency Channel (beep, home channel)
EIA Emergency Automatic ID
Memory Banks (vs. standard memory channels)
– but might be useful to organize large number of
channels into groups, if traveling, for instance
(like MS “folders” for files)
• Password
Password
• Not recommended
• Password Can prevent casual unauthorized
use, but
– Manual tells how to defeat
– May lead to “password mishap”, which requires
complete erase of all memory to defeat
What makes this challenging?
• Most keypad buttons have 3 functions (pp. 6,7 )
1. Primary (Black lettering on button, press key)
2. Secondary (Orange lettering above button, after
first press F/W key and then press key)
3. Third (White lettering below button, press & hold
key > 1 second)
• No index in manual (get .pdf and “find”)
• SET menu accesses 56 parameters (pp. 66-78)
LOCK (p. 16)
• Default combination locks keypad & DIAL
• To lock,
– Press & hold LOCK > 1 second
– Or, Press F/W, then press LOCK
• To unlock,
– Repeat
• Look for “padlock” icon, lower left
Weather channels memory bank
(p. 34)
• Press & hold key 1
• Turn DIAL or
to select 1 of 10 frequencies
– Weather channel 4, 162.425 MHz good in
Northfield
• To exit, press & hold key 1 again
Set Transmit Power TX PO (p.15)
1. Unlocked?
2. Reduce power output to 0.5 W
Press F/W , TX PO , use DIAL or
“LOW”, press F/W to exit
to select
3. Temporary in memory mode (power cycle
resets TX PO)
Inadvertent Internet Connection active
(p. 49)
• DTMF Touch Tone heard at TX radio, see
Internet (“atomic”) icon upper right
• First 2 seconds of transmission not heard at RX
radio
• Caused by inadvertent 0 key press
– To fix, just press 0 key again and LOCK!
Two Tuning Modes: VFO and Memory
1. VFO – Variable Frequency Oscillator
changes frequency
2. Memory
changes memory channel
– Frequency
– Also tone, shift/offset, splits, power
• To change, press V/M
Tuning in VFO and Memory modes
• VFO – changes frequency
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Turn DIAL knob
Up/Down Keys
Type numbers (6 digits, decimal point assumed)
Scan
• Memory – changes memory channel
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Turn DIAL knob
Up/Down Keys
Type numbers (1 to 3 digits , F/W)
Scan
Two basic communication modes
• Simplex
• Repeater
Simplex
• TX & RX are on same frequency, like CB or FRS
radios
Repeater Operation
Tuning in a repeater in Memory mode
1. Unlock (if locked)
Press & hold LOCK
2. Go to Memory mode (if in VFO mode)
Press V/M, to see small 1-3 digit # upper left
3. Select Memory
– Turn DIAL knob
– Up/Down
Keys
– Type numbers (1 to 3 digits , F/W)
– At channel 33, should see “LEYDEN”
Call on the Leyden Repeater!
Using Simplex in VFO Mode
1. unLOCK, if necessary
If locked, press LOCK for > 1 second, or F/W , LOCK
2. Change to VFO mode, if necessary
If in memory mode (small #s upper left), Press V/M
3. Set frequency to 440.000 MHz
Press numbers (turn DIAL, or press
frequency)
to adjust
4. Make sure no shift when TX (press PTT, make
sure frequency doesn’t change when PTT)
If shift is on, press F/W, press RPT, turn DIAL to see
“RPT.OFF”, press F/W again to exit
Call on 440.000 MHz simplex!
Repeater Operation
• Set “repeater output frequency”
• Set “offset, +/-” (also called “shift, +/-”)
• Set “tone”
FCARC Repeaters
• Output frequency, offset, tone
146.985 MHz, negative offset 0.6 MHz, PL 136.5 Hz
448.875 MHz, negative offset 5.0 MHz, PL 136.5 Hz
FCARC 440 repeater in VFO Mode
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unLOCK, if necessary
If locked, press LOCK for > 1 second, or F/W , LOCK
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Change to VFO mode, if necessary
If in memory mode (small #s upper left), Press V/M
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Set repeater output frequency to 448.875 MHz
Press numbers to select frequency (turn DIAL, or press
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to adjust f)
Check offset, and select neg. offset, if necessary
Press F/W , RPT , turn DIAL to see “RPT. - ”, press F/W to exit
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Test offset by PTT, say callsign, look for 443.875 while PTT
Set SQuelch TYPe
Press F/W , SQ TYP , turn DIAL to see “TONE”, press F/W to exit
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Set PL tone squelch frequency
Press F/W , CODE , turn DIAL to see “136.5HZ”, press F/W to exit
Call on 448.875 MHz FCARC Repeater!
Simple Scans
• To scan Memories,
– Go to Memory mode
– Press & hold or
to start scan up or down
– Repeat to stop memory scan (book says press V/M or
PTT)
• To scan all tunable frequencies with VFO,
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Go to VFO mode
Select starting frequency
Press & hold or
to start scan up or down
Repeat to stop memory scan (book says press V/M or
PTT)
Change Memory Labels to display
Frequency
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Go to Memory mode
Select Memory channel # to change
Press F/W to enter Function mode
Press SET to set parameters
Rotate DIAL to see “27 NAME”
Press F/W to select NAME settings
Rotate DIAL to select “FREQ” (vs. “ALPHA”)
Press PTT to save new setting
Reverse (p. 21)
• Reverses repeater input & output frequencies
• Use to check whether someone who is
transmitting is close enough to be heard on
simplex
• Foxhunts
• To use, just unlock and press HM/RV
• When “reversed”, shift “+” or “–” blinks!
Memory Storage (p. 28)
CAUTION(changes memory)!
1. Go to VFO mode
2. Set frequency, RPT, SQ TYP, CODE, TX PO as
needed in VFO mode
3. To store in memory,
– Press & hold F/W; next open channel is selected
– Turn DIAL if want to write to a different channel
number
– Press F/W again to write
4. Will return to VFO mode after write
Memory Channel Delete (p. 32)
CAUTION (changes memory)!
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Go to Memory mode
Press & hold F/W
Display should show next empty channel
Rotate DIAL to select channel to be deleted
Press F/W to delete
Write Memory Channel Data to VFO
(p. 32) CAUTION(changes VFO)!
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Go to Memory mode
Press BAND
Display should show memory “tun”
Press & hold BAND
Display should show memory “VFO-IN”
Questions?