Page 63FT-450 OPERATION MANUALMEMORY OPERATIONQMB (QUICK M EMORY B ANK)The Quick Memory Bank is independent from the regular and PMS memories. You can quickly store operatingparameters for later recall.Storage1. Tune to the desired frequency on the VFO mode.2. Press the [VOX/STO] button momentarily. The“beep” will confirm that the contents of the VFOhave been written to the QMB memory.Recall1. Press the [HOME/RCL] button. The QMBchannel’s data will be shown on the display.2. Press the [HOME/RCL] button to return to theprevious-used frequency (either a VFO or amemory channel).Advice:Rotating the [MAIN DIAL] knob, or changing the op-erating mode, will place the transceiver in the“Memory Tune” mode (The “QMB” notation will re-place the “MT-QMB” in the display), which is a tem-porary “pseudo-VFO” method of tuning off of a storedmemory channel. If you do not over-write the con-tents of the current memory channel, the original con-tents will not be disturbed by the initiation of MemoryTune operation. Press the [HOME/RCL] button toreturn original QMB frequency and/or operating mode.[VOX/STO] button[HOME/RCL] button