One can lock the keyboard and prevent it from happening. There is normally little need to use the keyboard.
73,
Alan - W6ARH
From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Milton Hywatt Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 5:50 PM To: Discussion of CHIRP Subject: Re: [chirp_users] PSA: Permanently disable Yaesu Wires beep
Done it dozens of times on the FT60 and FT8900. Was talking to someone just the other day who had a tone when he first transmitted. I told the guy he was using a Yaesu and he was surprised that I knew. I said he had wires enabled. He found the button and shut it off. There is a way to program the radio so wires will only work if certain criteria are met and under normal operation you would never meet it either. There is no way to enable it under normal or cross band mode.
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From: "chirp.cordless@xoxy.net" chirp.cordless@xoxy.net To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 6:35 PM Subject: [chirp_users] PSA: Permanently disable Yaesu Wires beep
I know this isn't directly Chirp related, but it's the right audience, and this information needs to get widely distributed. Nobody in my local ham circles knew about it.
If you don't know what the annoying Yaesu Wires beep is, it's a Yaesu-proprietary internet access feature. It's too easy to accidentally enable on most Yaesu radios, and it injects a DTMF tone at the start of every transmission that masks the start of the audio.
It turns out there's a way to silence the beep, even if you accidentally put the radio in Wires mode. There's a well-done description of the settings changes for a dozen Yaesu models, and an explanation, at http://www.sbara.org/downloads/WIRES/ which has both online html versions and downloadable pdfs.
Hope that helps some, and apologies for the noise to the rest of you.
-dan
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