I have a friend who has a Yaesu FT-8800R transceiver That transmits a
"beep" each time he transmits. We could probably figure out how to
turn it off if we knew what the function is called...

A full reset will clear the condition but it also clears all the other
programming. Once again, if we knew what the "feature" was called we
could probably figure out how it gets turned on unintentionally.

John, W8CCW
John Ferrell W8CCW

John Ferrell wrote:
I have a friend who has a Yaesu FT-8800R transceiver That transmits a
"beep" each time he transmits. We could probably figure out how to
turn it off if we knew what the function is called...

A full reset will clear the condition but it also clears all the other
programming. Once again, if we knew what the "feature" was called we
could probably figure out how it gets turned on unintentionally.

John, W8CCW
John Ferrell W8CCW
Try looking under Courtesy Beep or menu item 5


Bob N9LVU

Thanks, but Menu 5 is an audible beep when a key board key is pressed.
The tone that happens with this problem is heard at the transmitter
and the receiver.

John W8CCW

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:43:03 -0500, Robert Kubichek
wrote:



John Ferrell wrote:
I have a friend who has a Yaesu FT-8800R transceiver That transmits a
"beep" each time he transmits. We could probably figure out how to
turn it off if we knew what the function is called...

A full reset will clear the condition but it also clears all the other
programming. Once again, if we knew what the "feature" was called we
could probably figure out how it gets turned on unintentionally.

John, W8CCW
John Ferrell W8CCW
Try looking under Courtesy Beep or menu item 5


Bob N9LVU
John Ferrell W8CCW

Ok, then it HAS to be that you have the WIRES activated. Every time you key up,
it sends a tone code to initiate the WIRES link...
Bob N9LVU

John Ferrell wrote:
Thanks, but Menu 5 is an audible beep when a key board key is pressed.
The tone that happens with this problem is heard at the transmitter
and the receiver.

John W8CCW

On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:43:03 -0500, Robert Kubichek
wrote:



John Ferrell wrote:

I have a friend who has a Yaesu FT-8800R transceiver That transmits a
"beep" each time he transmits. We could probably figure out how to
turn it off if we knew what the function is called...

A full reset will clear the condition but it also clears all the other
programming. Once again, if we knew what the "feature" was called we
could probably figure out how it gets turned on unintentionally.

John, W8CCW
John Ferrell W8CCW

Try looking under Courtesy Beep or menu item 5


Bob N9LVU

John Ferrell W8CCW

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:05:39 +0000, John Ferrell wrote:

I have a friend who has a Yaesu FT-8800R transceiver That transmits a
"beep" each time he transmits. We could probably figure out how to
turn it off if we knew what the function is called...
snip

I had the same thing. I can't remember what the function was called but it
took me a few hours to find out what it was trough experimentation.

Press the right hand volume control down briefly disables it.

I really hate the controls for this radio. They add stupid functions like
this to the front panel but leave important things like memory skip deep
in the menus.

In article ,
yea right wrote:
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:05:39 +0000, John Ferrell wrote:

I have a friend who has a Yaesu FT-8800R transceiver That transmits a
"beep" each time he transmits. We could probably figure out how to
turn it off if we knew what the function is called...
snip

I had the same thing. I can't remember what the function was called but it
took me a few hours to find out what it was trough experimentation.

Press the right hand volume control down briefly disables it.

I really hate the controls for this radio. They add stupid functions like
this to the front panel but leave important things like memory skip deep
in the menus.

This is probably the Yaesu WIRES (internet-connection) feature. It's
enabled by pressing the lefthand VOL knob briefly. When enabled, the
text INT ON appears in the display for a couple of seconds, an "int"
icon appears in the display (memory-channel field of the subband part
of the display), and a DTMF tone is sent at the beginning of each
transmission.

To disable it, press the lefthand VOL knob again, and confirm that the
"int" icon disappears from the display.

--
Dave Platt AE6EO
Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

I am sure you guys have solved the problem. I will talk with Bill
later today. This "feature" has just about driven him off his recent
return to Ham Radio!

While we have found the experience a bit humbling, I do think they
could have done better job with the manual. A search on "wires" of
the PDF manual got me on the right pages.

Thanks to all!
John W8CCW

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:25:19 -0000, (Dave Platt)
wrote:

In article ,
yea right wrote:
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:05:39 +0000, John Ferrell wrote:

I have a friend who has a Yaesu FT-8800R transceiver That transmits a
"beep" each time he transmits. We could probably figure out how to
turn it off if we knew what the function is called...
snip

I had the same thing. I can't remember what the function was called but it
took me a few hours to find out what it was trough experimentation.

Press the right hand volume control down briefly disables it.

I really hate the controls for this radio. They add stupid functions like
this to the front panel but leave important things like memory skip deep
in the menus.

This is probably the Yaesu WIRES (internet-connection) feature. It's
enabled by pressing the lefthand VOL knob briefly. When enabled, the
text INT ON appears in the display for a couple of seconds, an "int"
icon appears in the display (memory-channel field of the subband part
of the display), and a DTMF tone is sent at the beginning of each
transmission.

To disable it, press the lefthand VOL knob again, and confirm that the
"int" icon disappears from the display.
John Ferrell W8CCW

Not a dumb question, but sure as hell a DUMB feature
Tis Wires beep necessary when using WIRES (Wide-Coverage Internet Repeater
Enhancement System).
To disable, press the volume control on the lower left of the rig. See page
52 of the manual
http://www.yaesu.com/

We had a demo station at the San Diego Fair that beeped every time they
transmitted
Almost every time a repeater cop just had to tell them - ya gotta beep on
your signal

Using the on-line manual - took two hours to figure out how to disable it

And if you think that is dumb -- wait until someone uses the ARTS feature on
your repeater
ARTSTM: Auto Range Transponder System .... page 46


--
CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !






"John Ferrell" wrote in message
...
I have a friend who has a Yaesu FT-8800R transceiver That transmits a
"beep" each time he transmits. We could probably figure out how to
turn it off if we knew what the function is called...

A full reset will clear the condition but it also clears all the other
programming. Once again, if we knew what the "feature" was called we
could probably figure out how it gets turned on unintentionally.

John, W8CCW
John Ferrell W8CCW