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From Ed Manuel, N5EM, on Jan 29,1996

For those who haven't figured it out yet, here is how to put the Plus on RS12.

1. Dial in a memory on 15 meters and adjust the frequency to 21.210 mhz. (the bottom end of the transponder passband). BE CAREFUL, advanced class required.

2. Move the xcvr/rit/split switch to the RIT mode. Depress the FAST button and hold it down. Crank the dial to 29.410 mhz. (this may take a few minutes :-)

3. You are now transmitting on 15 meters and receiving on 10 meters. You WILL need a dual (or more) band antenna that covers 15 and 10 since you can not separate receive and transmit.

4. Be Careful! Do not move the RIT toggle switch. Do not depress the memory button. Either of these actions resets to the memory and you will have to crank the whole thing again.

5. The Plus will keep this receiver offset until you do one of the two things in step 4. You can turn the radio off and disconnect the power with no adverse affect. The final frequency is always protected.

6. Since you are looking at the receive (RIT) frequency, you can adjust receive freq. while listening. If you want to QSY the transmitter, simply hold the REVERSE button down while adjusting the frequency.

7. There you have it. To take care of the dual band antenna problem, I threw together a dual dipole with a 23' piece of 450 ohm window ladder line fed by a piece of RG-8x. With the trusty MFJ antenna SWR analyser, it only took about 30 minutes instruments inside - antenna outside) to adjust the two wires for the correct frequencies. Most of us don't have a 10 meter antenna that works at 29.4, by the way.

8. Use your favorite shareware tracking software to determine when to work the bird.

From Ed Manuel, N5EM, on Jan 29, 1996

Oops. Partial error. In a conversation with Bruce at Index he mentioned that the synthesizer in the Plus is not fast enough to effectively switch at QSK keying speeds between bands. Hence (and after listening on the now secondary TS-130V) there is significant chirp while the synthesizer locks to transmit frequency. So, the short version is that the Plus will do crossband SSB just fine, just not CW. And, try to wait about 0.5 second before you start talking :-)