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FLEX-6000 Signature Series – Maestro User Guide

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33 FRONT PANEL KNOBS AND BUTTONS

33.1 SLICE RECEIVER ACTIVATION BUTTONS

The Maestro front panel provides two sets of buttons that activate and deactivate the Slice Receivers.

Pressing an RX button when the corresponding Slice is inactive causes the Slice Receiver to become

active. The button will illuminate green. Pressing the button again causes the Slice Receiver to

become inactive. With appropriate button presses, it is possible for zero, one or two Slice Receivers

to be active.

Pressing a TX button causes the transmitter control to move to the corresponding Slice Receiver, if

the receiver is active. If the Slice Receiver is inactive, the transmitter cannot be assigned to it. At

most one of the Slice Receivers can control the transmitter.

If two Panadapters are active in the Maestro display, pressing an RX button creates a Slice Receiver

in the upper Panadapter. Pressing the button again removes the Slice Receiver from the upper

Panadapter and creates it in the lower Panadapter. Another press removes the Slice Receiver

altogether. Either the A or B Slice Receiver can be moved to either Panadapter this way.

Note that when no Slice Receiver is active, pressing the B RX button will not create the B Slice

Receiver. When no Slice Receiver is active, the A Slice Receiver must be created first.

As a special case, if the A Slice is active and the B Slice is inactive, pressing the B TX button creates a

conventional “split operation” configuration. The B Slice is created at a higher frequency, appropriate

to the mode, and in the same mode as the A Slice. The transmitter control is moved to the B Slice.

A long press of either RX button, when the Slice is active, and the button is green, activates the RIT

(Receiver Incremental Tuning) feature. RIT allows the Slice Receiver’s reception frequency to be

adjusted up and down with the tuning knob while holding the transmit frequency constant. In this

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