1. How to use & configure your HT (Yaesu FT-60)
Bob Dickerman WA1QKT

2. Goals Describe FT-60 Change important settings on FT-60
Manually program for and use:
Simplex frequency
Local repeater
Use memory modes
Recall
Store
Write memory to VFO

3. FT-60R Ham VHF/UHF Television VHF/UHF VHF aircraft band – AM! Weather
Many other commercial & public safety
5W power, adjustable

4. Survey Who here tonight owns an FT-60?
How many have FT-60s that were cloned or programmed with M.A.R.C frequencies?
How many have manually programmed their FT-60 to work with a repeater?
Anything in particular that you want learn about?

5. Basic Controls (p. 3-5) VOL/PWR, PTT, SQL
multi-purpose DIAL (& arrow keys )
MONI switch
LAMP switch

6. Battery (pp. 8-10) Charge in 10 hours Don’t charge more than 24 hours
For longest battery life, wait for Battery Indicator (lower right) before charging
Spare

7. Basic Tips Keep manual with radio!
Battery voltage displayed when turn on
If “lost in menu tree”, turn power off and on
Always LOCK keypad
If keypad is NOT LOCKed, do not touch keys unintentionally

8. Don’t need these features for basic operation!
ARTS Automatic Range Transponder System
Vertex Wires Sister Radio Group
EPCS Enhanced Paging & Code Squelch
Emergency Channel (beep, home channel)
EIA Emergency Automatic ID
Memory Banks (vs. standard memory channels) – but might be useful to organize large number of channels into groups, if traveling, for instance (like MS “folders” for files)
Password

9. Password Not recommended
Password Can prevent casual unauthorized use, but
Manual tells how to defeat
May lead to “password mishap”, which requires complete erase of all memory to defeat

10. What makes this challenging?
Most keypad buttons have 3 functions (pp. 6,7 )
Primary (Black lettering on button, press key)
Secondary (Orange lettering above button, after first press F/W key and then press key)
Third (White lettering below button, press & hold key > 1 second)
No index in manual (get .pdf and “find”)
SET menu accesses 56 parameters (pp )

11. LOCK (p. 16) Default combination locks keypad & DIAL To lock,
Press & hold LOCK > 1 second
Or, Press F/W, then press LOCK
To unlock,
Repeat
Look for “padlock” icon, lower left

12. Weather channels memory bank (p. 34)
Press & hold key 1
Turn DIAL or to select 1 of 10 frequencies
Weather channel 4, MHz good in Northfield
To exit, press & hold key 1 again

13. Set Transmit Power TX PO (p.15)
Unlocked?
Reduce power output to 0.5 W
Press F/W , TX PO , use DIAL or to select “LOW”, press F/W to exit
Temporary in memory mode (power cycle resets TX PO)

14. Inadvertent Internet Connection active (p. 49)
DTMF Touch Tone heard at TX radio, see Internet (“atomic”) icon upper right
First 2 seconds of transmission not heard at RX radio
Caused by inadvertent 0 key press
To fix, just press 0 key again and LOCK!

15. Two Tuning Modes: VFO and Memory
VFO – Variable Frequency Oscillator
changes frequency
Memory
changes memory channel
Frequency
Also tone, shift/offset, splits, power
To change, press V/M

16. Tuning in VFO and Memory modes
VFO – changes frequency
Turn DIAL knob
Up/Down Keys
Type numbers (6 digits, decimal point assumed)
Scan
Memory – changes memory channel
Type numbers (1 to 3 digits , F/W)

17. Two basic communication modes
Simplex
Repeater

18. Simplex
TX & RX are on same frequency, like CB or FRS radios

19. Repeater Operation

20. Tuning in a repeater in Memory mode
Unlock (if locked)
Press & hold LOCK
Go to Memory mode (if in VFO mode)
Press V/M, to see small 1-3 digit # upper left
Select Memory
Turn DIAL knob
Up/Down Keys
Type numbers (1 to 3 digits , F/W)
At channel 33, should see “LEYDEN”

21. Call on the Leyden Repeater!

22. Using Simplex in VFO Mode
unLOCK, if necessary
If locked, press LOCK for > 1 second, or F/W , LOCK
Change to VFO mode, if necessary
If in memory mode (small #s upper left), Press V/M
Set frequency to MHz
Press numbers (turn DIAL, or press to adjust frequency)
Make sure no shift when TX (press PTT, make sure frequency doesn’t change when PTT)
If shift is on, press F/W, press RPT, turn DIAL to see “RPT.OFF”, press F/W again to exit

23. Call on MHz simplex!

24. Repeater Operation Set “repeater output frequency”
Set “offset, +/-” (also called “shift, +/-”)
Set “tone”

25. FCARC Repeaters Output frequency, offset, tone
MHz, negative offset 0.6 MHz, PL Hz
MHz, negative offset 5.0 MHz, PL Hz

26. FCARC 440 repeater in VFO Mode
unLOCK, if necessary
If locked, press LOCK for > 1 second, or F/W , LOCK
Change to VFO mode, if necessary
If in memory mode (small #s upper left), Press V/M
Set repeater output frequency to MHz
Press numbers to select frequency (turn DIAL, or press to adjust f)
Check offset, and select neg. offset, if necessary
Press F/W , RPT , turn DIAL to see “RPT. - ”, press F/W to exit
Test offset by PTT, say callsign, look for while PTT
Set SQuelch TYPe
Press F/W , SQ TYP , turn DIAL to see “TONE”, press F/W to exit
Set PL tone squelch frequency
Press F/W , CODE , turn DIAL to see “136.5HZ”, press F/W to exit

27. Call on 448.875 MHz FCARC Repeater!

28. Simple Scans To scan Memories,
Go to Memory mode
Press & hold or to start scan up or down
Repeat to stop memory scan (book says press V/M or PTT)
To scan all tunable frequencies with VFO,
Go to VFO mode
Select starting frequency

29. Change Memory Labels to display Frequency
Go to Memory mode
Select Memory channel # to change
Press F/W to enter Function mode
Press SET to set parameters
Rotate DIAL to see “27 NAME”
Press F/W to select NAME settings
Rotate DIAL to select “FREQ” (vs. “ALPHA”)
Press PTT to save new setting

30. Reverse (p. 21) Reverses repeater input & output frequencies
Use to check whether someone who is transmitting is close enough to be heard on simplex
Foxhunts
To use, just unlock and press HM/RV
When “reversed”, shift “+” or “–” blinks!

31. Memory Storage (p. 28) CAUTION(changes memory)!
Go to VFO mode
Set frequency, RPT, SQ TYP, CODE, TX PO as needed in VFO mode
To store in memory,
Press & hold F/W; next open channel is selected
Turn DIAL if want to write to a different channel number
Press F/W again to write
Will return to VFO mode after write

32. Memory Channel Delete (p. 32) CAUTION (changes memory)!
Go to Memory mode
Press & hold F/W
Display should show next empty channel
Rotate DIAL to select channel to be deleted
Press F/W to delete

33. Write Memory Channel Data to VFO (p. 32) CAUTION(changes VFO)!
Go to Memory mode
Press BAND
Display should show memory “tun”
Press & hold BAND
Display should show memory “VFO-IN”

34. Questions?