Yesterday, I headed out to activate a couple of RI parks. I hadn’t used my IC-7300 in a few months, and the last time I was running FT8 at a POTA demonstration.
I intended to run SSB, which tends to have more potential hunters, but when I set my rig up at the first park, I could only select LSB or USB-D on 20-meters. I tried all sorts of combinations of button/screen presses with no luck. So I changed things over to CW, and completed my two activations. (Yet another story trying to find a 1/8 to 1/4 adapter for the paddle).
Today I fired the rig up again, and discovered the “magic” button combination.
- On the main screen, pressed the Mode button (which was showing CW) – that opened the screen below
- Pressed the SSB button (which toggled between LSB and USB-D, leaving it on USB_D
- Pressed the DATA button, which changed USB-D to USB
THANK YOU! I use RTTY to tune my amp to a desired power setting, and found that both LSB and USB were in digital mode. First time this has happened.