TS50 summary sheet
Front Panel controls and buttons
| Power | - tranceiver on/off |
| AT Tune | - activates the optional automatic antenna tuner |
| AIP/ATT | - switching AIP...ATT...AIP & ATT...OFF AIP = Advanced Intercept point ATT = 20dB attenuator |
| NB | - Noise blanker on/off (pulse type noise) |
| Phone output | - 4-32 Ohm...3.5mm mono plug |
| MIC connector | - input for microphone |
| AF control | - to controll receiver audio volume |
| SQL control | - to eliminate background noise |
| RIT control | - to control receiver frequency shift - to change scan speed during memory or program scan |
| IF SHIFT control | - to shift interfering signals outside the filter pass band...in SSB and CW modes |
| RIT button | - toggles Receive Incremental Tuning |
| SCAN button | - Memory scan start (in Memory channel mode) - Program scan start ( in VFO mode,channel 99) - Scan stop |
| CLR button | - Memory or program scan stop - Memory scrol mode exit - Memory channel lock-out - Memory channel clear (more than 2 sec.) - Menu Set-up exit - Automatic Power Off reset |
| M.IN button | - Memory scroll mode (to select memory channel) - Memory channel storage |
| M>V button | - displayed memory contents to VFO |
| M/V button | - switching between VFO mode and Memory Channel mode |
| On air indicator | - Lights when tranceiver is in transmit mode or is tuned to a frequency within a transmit band. |
| AT-Tune indicator | - Lights during preset or tuning of antenna tuner |
| F.LOCK button | - locks or unlocks tuning control and ... A/B A=B CLR DOWN FM/AM M.IN M/V M>V MHz SCAN SPLIT SSB/CW UP NB ... buttons |
| MHz button | - VFO mode to step in MHz steps (up/down buttons) - Quick Memory channel select Memory Channel mode .. only loaded memory channels (on), all memory channels (off). Memory scroll mode .. only empty memory channels (on), all memory channels (off) |
| UP and DOWN buttons | - Amateur band select (VFO mode & MHz off) - Frequency up/down 1MHz (VFO mode & MHz on) - Memory channel select (Memory channel/scroll mode) - Menu setting select (Menu set-up) - Start and end frequency recall (Memory channel mode, channel 99, F.LOCK on) |
| Tuning control | - Frequency change - Menu number select |
| A/B button | - A VFO or VFO B select (in VFO mode) - Tranceiver Partial reset (with power on) - Menu A or Menu B set-up (Menu set-up mode) |
| SPLIT button | - Permits use of the alternate(unused)VFO for the transmit
frequency. - SPLIT on and F.LOCK on for TF.SET function. Hold SPLIT button to listen/change transmit freq. |
| A=B button | - Copy the contents of the active VFO to the inactive VFO
(in VFO mode) - Copy the contents of the active VFO to the inactive VFO (in VFO mode) - Tranceiver Full reset (with power on) |
| SSB/CW button | ! ONLY WHEN IN RECEIVE MODE ! - Switchig to/between SSB and CW in 2 or 3 steps |
| FM/AM button | ! ONLY WHEN IN RECEIVE MODE ! - Switchig to/between FM and AM |
Back panel connections
| ALC | - Input for an external ALC signal from a amplifier. |
| RELAY | - During transmit, switch to ground from relay. |
| ANT | - Connect to antenna...tuner...dummy load...50 Ohm. |
| KEY | - Key for CW operation (+7V to ground,3.5 mm mono plug) |
| EXT SPEAKER | - External speaker connection (8-16 Ohm,3.5 mm mono plug) |
| Power Input DC13.8V | - to external power supply (20.5A, with ATuner 22.5A) |
| ACC | - Connection for automatic antenna tuner |
| GND | - For shortest possible connection to earth ground |
Contents of menu A
| Menu No. | Contents of menu A | State(display) | Initial state |
| 00 | Power Change | Depending on marketplace | Depending on marketplace |
| 01 | Dimmer quantitiy changeover | OFF/d1/d2/d3/d4 | d2 |
| 02 | AGC SLOW/FAST changover (SSB,CW,AM) | S/F | Depending on data |
| 03 | IF filter switching (SSB,CW,AM) | 0.5/2.4/6KHz | Depending on data |
| 04 | SSB/CW switch change | SSB/ULC | SSB |
| 05 | CW delay time switching | see instruction manual | 600 |
| 06 | CW pitch change (50Hz step) | 400-1000 | 800 |
| 07 | CW reverse on/off | ON/OFF | OFF |
| 08 | Encoder lock on/off | ON/OFF | OFF |
| 09 | Program scan busy stop on/off | ON/OFF | ON |
| 10 | Program scan time/carrier changeover | 0/1 | 0 |
| 11 | Memory scan busy stop on/off | ON/OFF | ON |
| 12 | Memory scan time/carrier changeover | 0/1 | 0 |
| 13 | All memory scan on/off | ON/OFF | OFF |
| 14 | Four times power meter indicator | ON/OFF | OFF |
| 15 | Repeater subtone on/off | ON/OFF | ON |
| 16 | MIC U/D step freq in SSB/CW mode | see instruction manual | 10kHz |
| 17 | MIC U/D step freq in FM/AM mode | see instruction manual | 10kHz |
Contents of menu B
| Menu No. | Contents of menu B | State(display) | Initial state |
| 50 | Beep tone on/off | ON/OFF | ON |
| 51 | Mode Morse on/off | ON/OFF | ON |
| 52 | Warning Morse on/off | ON/OFF | ON |
| 53 | Repeater subtone freq. Setting | 67.0-1750.0 | Contents in memory |
| 54 | Repeater subtone mode setting | b/c | c |
| 55 | Meter peak hold on/off | ON/OFF | ON |
| 56 | Memory channel auto.incr. on/off | ON/OFF | OFF |
| 57 | Standard mem.chan.freq.tempor.change | ON/OFF | OFF |
| 58 | Program scan hold function on/off | ON/OFF | OFF |
| 59 | Mem.prot.1(write/erase inhibit)on/off | ON/OFF | OFF |
| 60 | Mem.prot.2(overwrite/erase inh)on/off | ON/OFF | OFF |
| 61 | AM broadcast band 9kHz step function | 9kHz/OFF | OFF |
| 62 | 1MHz/500kHz step when 1MHz step is on | 1000/500kHz | 1000 |
| 63 | RIT freq. range 1.1/2.2kHz changeover | 1.1/2.2kHz | 1.1kHz |
| 64 | Automatic power-off on/off | ON/OFF | OFF |
| 65 | Transmit inhibit function | ON/OFF | OFF |
| 66 | Microphone sensitivity change | H/L | L |
| 67 | PF1 key setting | 00/99 | 83(menu A) |
| 68 | PF2 key setting | 00/99 | 00(power change) |
| 69 | PF3 key setting | 00/99 | 36(TF-SET) |
| 70 | PF4 key setting | 00/99 | 82(monitor) |
| 71 | LSB trans/rec carrier point setting | -100-200 | 0 |
| 72 | USB trans/rec carrier point setting | -100-200 | 0 |
PF key functions
| No | Menu A function | No | Panel key function | No | Menu B function | No | Special function |
| 00 | Menu 00 | 20 | AT TUNE | 50 | Menu 50 | 80 | AF MUTE |
| 01 | Menu 01 | 21 | AIP | 51 | Menu 51 | 81 | AF ATT |
| 02 | Menu 02 | 22 | ATT | 52 | Menu 52 | 82 | ATT |
| 03 | Menu 03 | 23 | NB | 53 | Menu 53 | 83 | Menu A |
| 04 | Menu 04 | 24 | F.LOCK | 54 | Menu 54 | 84 | Menu B |
| 05 | Menu 05 | 25 | UP | 55 | Menu 55 | 85 | 1Hz display |
| 06 | Menu 06 | 26 | DOWN | 56 | Menu 56 | 99 | OFF |
| 07 | Menu 07 | 27 | MHz | 57 | Menu 57 | ||
| 08 | Menu 08 | 28 | RIT | 58 | Menu 58 | ||
| 09 | Menu 09 | 29 | SCAN | 59 | Menu 59 | ||
| 10 | Menu 10 | 30 | CLR | 60 | Menu 60 | ||
| 11 | Menu 11 | 31 | M.IN | 61 | Menu 61 | ||
| 12 | Menu 12 | 32 | M>V | 62 | Menu 62 | ||
| 13 | Menu 13 | 33 | M/V | 63 | Menu 63 | ||
| 14 | Menu 14 | 34 | A/B | 64 | Menu 64 | ||
| 15 | Menu 15 | 35 | SPLIT | 65 | Menu 65 | ||
| 16 | Menu 16 | 36 | TF-SET | 66 | Menu 66 | ||
| 17 | Menu 17 | 37 | A=B | ||||
| 38 | SSB/CW | ||||||
| 39 | FM/AM |