I am trying to help someone out who is currently cruising and can not
contact Furuno. THey are trying to use their FS1503 on lower sideband but
there is some 'unclipping' procedure required to enable lower sideband. Does
anyone have the details on this procedure? They seem to think its a keying
sequence on the controls. I'm pretty sure there is a jumper which needs to
be clipped.

Any help would be great.

Thanks!
-patrick


Patrick's Sailing Blog: http://shipsrecord.com/blogs/patrick/

I am trying to help someone out who is currently cruising and can not
contact Furuno. THey are trying to use their FS1503 on lower sideband
but there is some 'unclipping' procedure required to enable lower
sideband. Does anyone have the details on this procedure? They seem to
think its a keying sequence on the controls. I'm pretty sure there is
a jumper which needs to be clipped.

Any help would be great.



Patrick,

According to the Furnio FS1503 manual, found at:

http://www.furuno.com/Furuno/Doc/0/L...M1UFA54/FS1503
+Operators+Manual+Version+C.pdf

The Mode key selects the class of emission. Each press of the
[Mode/1] Key steps the emissions selector through a selection of several
modes, LSB*, J3E (USB), AM, TLX, and FAX.

However, please note that the first selection of LSB is marked with an
asterisk and is indicated as "available with system setting by FURINO
authorized service agent." This would indicate to me that the LSB
setting is therefore only available as a choice after the radio has been
modified by Furnio service tech.



Ed K7AAT

My appologies, it appears that my previous reply was not what you were
looking for, but in fact you wanted the technical procedure that Furnino
service techs use to enable the LSB selection.

I don't have that information, but perhaps if you can contact Furnino
yourself, by telephone or email, you can get it.

Assumuing you are in the United States, Furnino is availabe at:

360-834-9300 and email:


Ed

In article . 196,
Ed wrote:

My appologies, it appears that my previous reply was not what you were
looking for, but in fact you wanted the technical procedure that Furnino
service techs use to enable the LSB selection.

I don't have that information, but perhaps if you can contact Furnino
yourself, by telephone or email, you can get it.

Assumuing you are in the United States, Furnino is availabe at:

360-834-9300 and email:


Ed


and unless you are a Furuno Dealer, They aren't going to let that
secret out.......

and unless you are a Furuno Dealer, They aren't going to let that
secret out.......

That's sort of what I was thinking as well. I'm hoping that someone out
there has done this before and has the info.

Thanks,
-p
Patrick's Sailing Blog: http://shipsrecord.com/blogs/patrick/

"Patrick" wrote in
:

I am trying to help someone out who is currently cruising and can not
contact Furuno. THey are trying to use their FS1503 on lower sideband
but there is some 'unclipping' procedure required to enable lower
sideband. Does anyone have the details on this procedure? They seem to
think its a keying sequence on the controls. I'm pretty sure there is
a jumper which needs to be clipped.

Any help would be great.


Patrick, I hope you are still reading this thread as I can't seem to
find a valid email address for you.

Here is the procedure to unlock the LSB function in the Furuno FS1503:



You need to change system parameter 9914 to "0" to enable LSB capability.


SYSTEM PROGRAMMING PROCEDU


1) While pressing and holding down the [CH] key, turn the power on to
enter system programming mode, release the [CH] key after unit is on and
"MEMO" shows in the display.




2) Select function 9999 by rotating the FREQ/CH knob.




3) Press [CH], [1], [5], [0], [3], and [ENT] keys. ("1503" is password.)




4) Select function 9914 by rotating the FREQ/CH knob, then press [CH],
[0], and [ENT] keys.




5) To finish up, escape the programming mode by simply turning off the
radio.




The system programming is completed.


Ed K7AAT

and unless you are a Furuno Dealer, They aren't going to let that
secret out.......



Well, one of them did. I just posted that info here. All it took was a
little email query.



Ed

Thanks a lot Ed! I will forward the information along with your Callsign.
Maybe they will drop you a note or make contact.

-patrick
Patrick's Sailing Blog: http://shipsrecord.com/blogs/patrick/


"Ed" wrote in message
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"Patrick" wrote in
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Ed K7AAT

"Patrick" wrote in
:

Thanks a lot Ed! I will forward the information along with your
Callsign. Maybe they will drop you a note or make contact.

-patrick
Patrick's Sailing Blog: http://shipsrecord.com/blogs/patrick/



You're welcome, Patrick. I emailed about 4 yacht maintenance vendors
here on the West Coast and got back two positive replies. To give credit
where credit is due, the first response came from Marty, WA7JMA.

I sent this info to mods.dk also. Hopefully they'll post it to their
mods website.


Ed K7AAT

I posted it to my blog as well.
http://www.shipsrecord.com/blogs/pat...06/13/974.aspx

Judy's reply was:
"Fantastic! Patrick, you are a sweetheart. Will let you know next week how
it worked. Will be really great to be able to hear Chris and Eric weather
reports before we head out to Trinidad."

Going to Trinidad. I'm so envious!

-p

You're welcome, Patrick. I emailed about 4 yacht maintenance vendors
here on the West Coast and got back two positive replies. To give credit
where credit is due, the first response came from Marty, WA7JMA.

I sent this info to mods.dk also. Hopefully they'll post it to their
mods website.


Ed K7AAT