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MESSAGES AND MACROS A SET OF 12 MESSAGES, EACH 120 CHARACTERS LONG, CAN BE
STORED SEE THE SIDEBAR, STORING AND EDITING A MESSAGE, AT WWW.  ARRL.
ORG/QST IN DEPTH FOR MORE DETAILS.  HAVING A KEYBOARD MAKES IT EASY TO
WRITE A MESSAGE, STORE IT, AND EDIT IT.  TWO SETS OF MESSAGES CAN BE
STORED.  THE UNIT ALLOWS SETTING UP TWO USERS, AND YOU CAN TOGGLE BETWEEN
THE TWO EVERY TIME YOU PRESS CTRL U.  WHEN THE USER IS CHANGED, A BRIEF
MESSAGE FASHES ON THE STATUS LINE WHILE THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION IS
CHANGED.  EACH USER HAS CUSTOMIZED SETTINGS AND A MESSAGE LIST.  I SET UP A
GROUP OF MESSAGES FOR EVERYDAY OPERATING, INCLUDING BRIEF EXCHANGE MESSAGES
FOR WORKING HIT AND RUN DX CONTACTS.  I STORED AND CHANGED MESSAGES AS USER
2 WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF A CONTEST.  SERIAL NUMBER INSERTION, CHAINING
MESSAGE, AND REPEATING ARE ALSO SET WITH KEYBOARD COMMANDS.  BEACON
OPERATION IS SUPPORTED WITH THE ABILITY TO SET SPACING, DELAYS, SPEEDS, AND
REPETITION RATES.  KEY MAPPING IS ALSO AVAILABLE.  A SET OF 20 PRESET
PREMAPPED CHARACTERS IS INCLUDED EACH CAN BE REMAPPED TO ANOTHER KEY.  CW
SPEEDS TRANSMIT KEYING RANGE IS SPECIFED AS 5 99 WORDS PER MINUTE, AND
ROUNDING IT OFF FOR FIVE LETTER GROUPS FIVE LETTERS PLUS ONE SPACE PER WORD
TRANSLATES TO APPROXIMATELY 600 LETTERS PER MINUTE MAXIMUM.  BUT BEFORE YOU
THINK USING A KEYBOARD WILL TURN YOU INTO A VERY HIGH SPEED TRANSMIT
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