Codan HF SSB series - Using the Microphone

Using the transceiver
HF SSB transceiver user guide 3-17
Using the microphone
When talking into the microphone:
• hold the microphone side-on and close to your mouth
• press and hold down the
PTT
button
• speak clearly at normal volume and rate
• use the word ‘over’ to indicate when you have finished
speaking and release the
PTT
button
• remember that your conversation can be monitored by
anyone tuned to your transmit frequency.
The transceiver incorporates a Sleep mode feature designed
to prevent you from operating the transceiver accidentally by
pressing the microphone buttons. In Sleep mode, these
buttons are inoperative.
Sleep mode does not affect the
PTT
button or the front panel
controls.
Sleep mode starts when no microphone button has been
pressed for one minute. To cancel Sleep mode, you hold
down the microphone button you want to operate for two
seconds until you hear a two-tone beep. Immediately after
this the button operates.
To save you from having to say ‘over’, you can use the
transceiver’s PTT release beep feature. If you switch this
feature on, the transceiver automatically indicates that you
have finished talking by sending a beep every time you
release the
PTT
button. Refer to the HF SSB transceiver
reference manual, Chapter 7, PTT release beep on/off.
The transceiver prevents you from transmitting for an
excessive period. If you want to change this time limit, refer
to the HF SSB transceiver reference manual, Chapter 7, PTT
transmit cutout.
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Using the transceiver
HF SSB transceiver user guide 3-17
Using the microphone
When talking into the microphone:
• hold the microphone side-on and close to your mouth
• press and hold down the
PTT
button
• speak clearly at normal volume and rate
• use the word ‘over’ to indicate when you have finished
speaking and release the
PTT
button
• remember that your conversation can be monitored by
anyone tuned to your transmit frequency.
The transceiver incorporates a Sleep mode feature designed
to prevent you from operating the transceiver accidentally by
pressing the microphone buttons. In Sleep mode, these
buttons are inoperative.
Sleep mode does not affect the
PTT
button or the front panel
controls.
Sleep mode starts when no microphone button has been
pressed for one minute. To cancel Sleep mode, you hold
down the microphone button you want to operate for two
seconds until you hear a two-tone beep. Immediately after
this the button operates.
To save you from having to say ‘over’, you can use the
transceiver’s PTT release beep feature. If you switch this
feature on, the transceiver automatically indicates that you
have finished talking by sending a beep every time you
release the
PTT
button. Refer to the HF SSB transceiver
reference manual, Chapter 7, PTT release beep on/off.
The transceiver prevents you from transmitting for an
excessive period. If you want to change this time limit, refer
to the HF SSB transceiver reference manual, Chapter 7, PTT
transmit cutout.
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