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  • Seed message and an unusual instrument.

    From Vk3jed@FREEWAY to All on Sun Sep 1 17:31:00 2019
    Need a message for setting things up here, and this is the perfect conference to talk about one of the more unusual instruments out there. Of all things, a number of Yaesu brand ham HT radios actually had key beeps that were tuned to the major keys on the musical scale, and yes it was possible to play little ditties on their keypads! :)


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  • From Nightfox to Vk3jed on Tue Sep 3 10:02:48 2019
    Re: Seed message and an unusual instrument.
    By: Vk3jed to All on Sun Sep 01 2019 05:31 pm

    Need a message for setting things up here, and this is the perfect conference to talk about one of the more unusual instruments out there. Of all things, a number of Yaesu brand ham HT radios actually had key beeps that were tuned to the major keys on the musical scale, and yes it was possible to play little ditties on their keypads! :)

    That's cool :)

    Nightfox
  • From Vk3jed@FREEWAY to Nightfox on Wed Sep 4 07:36:00 2019
    On 09-03-19 10:02, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

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    Re: Seed message and an unusual instrument.
    By: Vk3jed to All on Sun Sep 01 2019 05:31 pm

    Need a message for setting things up here, and this is the perfect conference to talk about one of the more unusual instruments out there. Of all things, a number of Yaesu brand ham HT radios actually had key beeps that were tuned to the major keys on the musical scale, and yes it was possible to play little ditties on their keypads! :)

    That's cool :)

    Yeah one night, a friend and I did a little duet. He was playing the piano and I was playing the radio. If you locked the keypad, it became purely a musical instrument. :)

    Anyway, while the seed messages worked, most of the old content never got across to FTN, so I ended up generating a .NA file (which will be in the infopack) and imported the configuration that way. :)


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