[TenTec] Corsair Display Instability

[Irena & Richard Jenkins]

I have a Corsair Mark 1 on my desk right now.  I'm listening to a radio net 
involving amateurs around VK2.  The nominal frequency is 3.6 MHz... but my 
dial is going crazy.  It says anything from 1.0 through to 4.6 Mhz ... and is 
continually changing. 

The receiver is steady on frequency ... and I am therefore assuming that my 
VFO is stable.  Earlier this evening I had a brief contact on 40 metres with 
no difficulty.  If the radio's frequency bobbed about like the dial frequency 
... there'd be no prospect of having a QSO.

In these old rigs ... I believe that the digital display is in reality a 
frequency counter which blends the VFO output with other circuits to give the 
'true' frequency ... which arrangement differs with each band.

Is this a common problem with the Corsair?  It really is a fine radio ... 
except for this bug.


73

Richard
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Irena & Richard Jenkins               VK1NDV & VK1RJ
Canberra, AUSTRALIA
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