George,
You may want to have your friend call Ten Tec technical support. They
are nice to deal with.
The wiring for the tuning encoder has two leads that are "rolled" and do
not connect stright pin for pin. I wonder if the leads were soldered
onto the encoder correctly.
73,
Bill - K6WLM
"Talbot, George A." wrote:
>
> I got the following from a friend who is building the kit with his son. Any
> help would be appreciated. His son, Nathan, is a high school student and I
> got them the Kit for Christmas to spur his interest in Radio and listening
> to HF comms with Aircraft.
>
> > Not much new on the radio kit. Nathan and I have both gotten
> > involved in a bunch more stuff lately, and I really want to
> > build it together. I'm pretty sure there's a bug in the
> > processor. If it's hooked up as designed, it will tune down
> > but not up. It turns out one of the two sense pins on the uP
> > is oscillating. If I swap that and the common to the knob
> > encoder then it kind of tunes up but still tunes down OK.
>
> Any one had a similar problem with the Sense Line oscillating?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> George V73GT
>
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