[TenTec] Pound sign (#) on Jupiter screen

[MadScientist]

I don’t think that is a memory status hashtag. I read the manual pretty thoroughly and did not find a reference to this.

Has the radio ALWAYS done this? 

I believe that  the hashtag is the loss-of-lock indicator.

Generally you should not be able to see this because the PLL should lock up quickly enough that you never get a chance to see it.

Does it do this on all bands?

The reason I ask  is that, if the # shows up only on one extreme or the other of a given VCO in the radio, you might need to recenter the trimmer in the VCO to promote faster lock-up.

Left unattended, I would expect the thing will drift to the point at which it will not lock up at all.

Just my input because I cannot find a definitive description of the use of the hashtag anywhere.

> On Nov 20, 2018, at 5:28 PM, Winston <jones_winston at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> I have a Jupiter 538, green screen. I notice a # in the very lower right corner that is sometimes there and sometimes not. It seems to go off during tuning and come back on after tuning.
> I think it means the processor has locked on frequency. Is that correct?
> 
> 73, Winston K4CWQ
> 
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