Well,
I've had my TS-890 a few days now and I am more than impressed.
I've used it as low in frequency as Top Band and made a few CW QSOs last night using this antenna. Nothing very special at all but its nice to work the band from time to time.
I'm trying very hard to improve my CW skills, but this radio does loads to help me with this.
It has a built in CW decoder which actually seems to work extremely well:
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The other thing that the rig does, is that it also decodes my sending - so this is excellent for practice and also to check that my characters and more importantly spacing is correct when I send.
You can also ask the radio to log the decoded text in both send and receive and you end up with a text file that looks like this:
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Once you are done with your log file, you can open it up on the radio or ask the radio to make the files available to the connected PC. The PC then alerts you to the fact that there is a new device connected and you can copy off whichever files you want.
In my case I am saving the radio config and copying it into my cloud storage for safe keeping - it couldn't be easier:
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I've also bought a very cheap wireless USB dongle keyboard from Amazon (its this one) and it works perfectly with the radio with the dongle plugged into the front panel USB socket. I can use the keyboard for sending PSK, RTTY and even CW.
Simply fantastic!
I've had my TS-890 a few days now and I am more than impressed.
I've used it as low in frequency as Top Band and made a few CW QSOs last night using this antenna. Nothing very special at all but its nice to work the band from time to time.
I'm trying very hard to improve my CW skills, but this radio does loads to help me with this.
It has a built in CW decoder which actually seems to work extremely well:
The other thing that the rig does, is that it also decodes my sending - so this is excellent for practice and also to check that my characters and more importantly spacing is correct when I send.
You can also ask the radio to log the decoded text in both send and receive and you end up with a text file that looks like this:
Once you are done with your log file, you can open it up on the radio or ask the radio to make the files available to the connected PC. The PC then alerts you to the fact that there is a new device connected and you can copy off whichever files you want.
In my case I am saving the radio config and copying it into my cloud storage for safe keeping - it couldn't be easier:
I've also bought a very cheap wireless USB dongle keyboard from Amazon (its this one) and it works perfectly with the radio with the dongle plugged into the front panel USB socket. I can use the keyboard for sending PSK, RTTY and even CW.
Simply fantastic!