6500 transmit on 4m

John G3WGV

I'm thinking vaguely of getting back on 4m after many years' absence. I understand that the 6500 covers 4m with a low level Tx output on the transverter port. So far so good. However, when I tune the TX slice to any 4m frequency (70.000-70.500MHz in the UK) I see "TX not ready" in SmartSDR and sure enough the TX does not key. Have I missed something in the set up or is this a Turf file problem?

73, John, G3WGV

Ken - NM9P

Is the TX output set to XVTR?

John G3WGV

I can't see how to do that. I can set the RX antenna to Transverter but that seems to have no effect.

Ken - NM9P

On the slice flag, in SSDR, right next to the blue pull down for RX ant selection is a red one for TX ant selection. Click that and select XVTR.

John G3WGV

Ahha! Thank you Ken. I was looking in the ANT menu item on the LHS. That seems to work fine, although I note it doesn't remember the setting on a band-by-band basis, so it will need to be set/unset each time I do a band change. Now to find a way of getting 10mW or so to a useful level!

Ken - NM9P

You can save a Transmit Profile and call it “4 Meters” and activate it whenever you change to that band. It might make it easier.

John G3WGV

Good idea. Not found a use for profiles hitherto but that might be about to change! Thanks again.

Trevor-EI2GLB

Did you ever get any further with this John, Thanks Trevor EI2GLB

John G3WGV