MFJ MFJ-418 - Getting Started: How to Use the Menu System

MFJ-418 Pocket Morse Code Tutor Instruction Manual
2 © 1996-2006 MFJ Enterprises, Inc.
In this manual, we'll start by explaining the basics of the MFJ-418, then show
how you can quickly start using it for some of its major functions. In the Fast
Start section, we'll concentrate on putting the unit to work for you immediately.
As you'll see, you can start using it in just a few minutes. In later sections, we'll
cover all its capabilities and features in full detail.
Getting Started: How to Use the Menu System
You may set up the MFJ-418 to perform any of its many functions by making
the appropriate selections from its menu system. This system consists of ten
main menus, eight of which have submenus. You make your selections using
the three buttons on the control panel
– Next, Previous and Select. These
buttons do the following:
• Next
– Selects the next main menu, or the next item in a submenu.
• Previous
– Selects the previous main menu, or the previous item in a
submenu.
• Select
– Enters a submenu to allow changing your choices within that
submenu. To do this, press and release the Select button within one second
(as we'll see later, this button does other things when held down longer than
one second).
The menus are arranged in a "wrap-around" structure, so that pressing the Next
or Previous button will bring up another menu or submenu item in a sequence.
Figure 1 shows the sequence of the main menus. Notice the availability of the
Combine, the Group and the QSO Tone menus depends on the selection in the
Set menu; that is, if any one of these three menus are not applicable to the
current active set, it is automatically skipped. When power is turned on, the
menu displayed is the one that was displayed when the unit was last turned off.
To see how the menu system works, consider the following example.
EXAMPLE: If the display shows that you are in the Overall Speed
menu, pressing the Next button would put you in the Farnsworth menu
and pressing the Previous button would put you in the Repeat Play
menu. Pressing the Select button would put you in the Overall Speed
submenu. This is indicated by a blinking block at the right side of the
LCD display. While this block appears, you may raise the speed by
pressing the Next button or lower it by pressing the Previous button.
Once you have selected the speed you desire, you may leave the
submenu by pressing the Select button again.
Once you have made your choices within the unit's submenus, they will be
saved in non-volatile memory for your next session.