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Press and hold the FREQ-INP and ENT keys while you power on the radio. This will allow you to set up some important parameters of your radio.
Select menu item 12 and make sure the setting is at 44h, the default address for this radio.
Select menu item 13 and change the setting to 1200 if necessary. This selects 1200 Baud data rate.
Select menu item 14 and change the setting to On if necessary. This selects the CI-V mode.
Select menu item 15 and change the setting to Off. This sets the data length to five bytes.
Now power off the radio to exit the menu. After that, power it back on.

Make sure you have read the user manual and configured the microHAM Interface for Icom using the internal jumpers.
Connect the microHAM USB Interface II to your radio and computer.
- On the radio side there will be three connections: CW, Remote and ACC1.
- On the computer side there will be three connections: USB, Line-out and Line-in (or microphone).
Install the microHAM software if you haven't done so already. There are two steps to it:
- Installing the device driver - if you have several microHAM devices you will have to do this once for each of them.
- Installing the USB Device Router - this software only needs to be installed once. It is identical on all microHAM products.

Set up the Device Router
Create two virtual COM ports. Don't try to use same port for radio control PTT/CW/FSK switching - use two different ones, like COM5 and COM6
- Configure the Radio on COM5
- Configure CW on COM6 DTR
- Configure PTT on COM6 RTS
- SQL is not needed
Testing
- Press the Test button on the PTT line. The radio should switch to transmit.
- Press the Test button on the CW line. The sidetone should be audible now.

Start up Win-Test, create a new Win-Test file for testing.
Go to the Configures Interfaces Menu.
- Configure COM5 for Radio1 at 1200 Baud, 8-N-1.
- Configure COM6 as Other Interface... and select CW on the DTR line and PTT on the RTS line.
- In the lower left corner of the interfaces configuration menu, select IC-736 as Radio 1 and tick the Use CI-V Interface option. The Don´t Poll option will be greyed out automatically.
- Exit the Configure Interfaces menu by pressing the OK button.
Testing
- Test radio control by entering a frequency in the callsign field. The radio should jump to that frequency.
- Open up the Band Map (Radio 1 Window) in Win-Test and tune the VFO. Watch the center of the band map move along with the frequency.
- Press [F1] (radio set to CW) and listen to the CQ message.

We are now ready to operate the contest.

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