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A FULL EXPLANATION OF THIS FUNCTION IS GIVEN IN THE REFERENCE MANUAL, PAGE
23.  IT ALLOWS THE UNIT TO SET YOUR OUTPUT TEXT AS READABLE WORDS.  IF YOU
MANUALLY SET THE OUTPUT MORSE CODE TEXT RATE FASTER THAN YOU CAN TYPE, OFTEN
THE TRANSMISSION WILL BE DISCONNECTED INDIVIDUAL LETTERS, NOT WORDS.  THIS
MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE PERSON, OR MACHINE, AT THE OTHER END TO
UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SENDING.  THE TYPING SPEED TEST SETS THE OUTPUT CODE
SPEED TO MATCH BUT NOT OVERRUN YOUR TYPING SPEED.  IF YOU DESIRE, YOU CAN
MANUALLY ENTER ANY SPEED YOU WANT.  ITS ALMOST TIME TO GET ON THE AIR.
KNOWING THAT THE MMX WILL PROVIDE A KEYBOARD FOR MORSE CODE OUTPUT AND MORSE
CODE IN TO PRINTED TEXT DISPLAY, THE MMX HAS, IN ITS BASIC ORGANIZATION, A
NUMBER OF AUTOMATION FEATURES TO BOTH INITIATE AND RESPOND TO A QSO IN
ALMOST A HANDS OFF MODE. THE QUICK START GUIDE HAS A ONE STEP AT A TIME SET OF
INSTRUCTIONS, DIVIDED INTO RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING.  IF YOU SET THE
FREQUENCY TO THE EXTERNAL MODE, YOU CAN PRACTICE THE TRANSMIT COMMANDS
WITHOUT RADIATING.  ALTERNATIVELY, YOU CAN LEAVE THE TRANSMITTER SET TO A
BAND AND USE A DUMMY LOAD.  TRANSMITTER COMMANDS.  THE CALL BUTTON IS ON THE
MAIN SCREEN.  AFTER SELECTING THE DEFAULT TRANSMISSION SPEED, BY PRESSING
THE SPACE BAR, THE TRANSMITTER SENDS OUT A SEQUENCE OF SEVERAL REPETITIONS
OF CQ FOLLOWED BY YOUR CALL SIGN TWICE.  THIS WILL CONTINUE INDEFINITELY
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