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FT-857 Operating Manual
The Menu System allows you to customize a wide variety of transceiver performance as-
pects and operating characteristics. Once you have gone through the various Menu
customization procedures initially, you will find that you will not have to resort to them
frequently during everyday operation.
M
ENU
O
PERATION
1. Press and hold in the [
FUNC
] key for one second. The Menu Item number and a title for
the Menu Mode will appear in the display.
2. Rotate the
SELECT
knob to select the Menu Item
you wish to work on.
3. When you have chosen the desired Menu Item num-
ber, rotate the
DIAL
knob to change the value or
condition for the Menu Item.
4. When you have made your selection, press and hold
in the [
FUNC
] key for one second to save the new setting and exit to the normal operation.
1) In step 3 above, if you press the [HOME] key momentarily, it will reset the
setting of that Menu Item to its factory-default value.
2) In step 4 above, if you press and hold the
[
C
]
key for one second, you will exit to normal
operation without saving the new setting.
3) In step 2 above, press the
[
A
]
key momentarily, The “hyphen” in the Menu channel
number will change to become a “dot;” this indicates that this Menu item will be masked
from the viewable Menu list when Menu No-001 (EXT MENU) is set to “Off.”
M
ENU
O
PERATION
No
Menu Item
001 EXT MENU
002 144MHz ARS
003 430MHz ARS
004 AM&FM DIAL
005 AM MIC GAIN
006 AM STEP
007 APO TIME
008 ARTS BEEP
009 ARTS ID
010 ARTS IDW
011
BEACON TEXT 1
012 BEACON TIME
013 BEEP TONE
014 BEEP VOL
015 CAR LSB R
016 CAR LSB T
017 CAR USB R
018 CAR USB T
019 CAT RATE
]
[
FUNC
DIAL
SELECT
Function
Enables/Disables the extended Menu Mode.
Activates/deactivates the Automatic Repeater Shift
feature when operating on the 144 MHz band.
Activates/deactivates the Automatic Repeater Shift
feature when operating on the 430 MHz band.
Enabling/disabling the DIAL knob on the AM and
FM modes.
Adjusts the microphone gain level for the AM
mode.
Selects the tuning steps for the MEM/VFO CH
knob on the AM mode.
Selects the Auto Power Off time (time before power
goes off).
Selects the ARTS beep mode.
Enables/disables the CW identifier during ARTS
operation.
Stores your callsign into the CW identifier.
Stores the message for the Beacon.
Selects the interval time (between message and
message).
Selects the beep frequency.
Selects the beep volume level.
Sets the Rx Carrier Point for LSB.
Sets the Tx Carrier Point for LSB
Sets the Rx Carrier Point for USB
Sets the Tx Carrier Point for USB
Sets the transceiver’s circuitry for the CAT baud
rate to be used.
Available Values
ON/OFF
ON/OFF
ON/OFF
ENABLE/DISABLE
0 ~ 100
2.5/5/9/10/12.5/25kHz
OFF/1h ~ 6h
OFF/RANGE/ALL
ON/OFF
–
–
OFF/
1 sec ~ 255sec
440/880/1760 Hz
0 ~ 100
–300 ~ +300 Hz
–300 ~ +300 Hz
–300 ~ +300 Hz
–300 ~ +300 Hz
4800 bps/9600 bps/
38400 bps
Default
OFF
ø
1
ø
1
DISABLE
50
ø
1
OFF
RANGE
OFF
YAESU
–
OFF
880Hz
50
0 Hz
0 Hz
0 Hz
0 Hz
4800bps