[WriteLog] More info on IC-765 frequency read problem

[George Johnson]

Don,
This behaviour sounds like RFI corrupting the communication 
periodically.  I have had similar problems here from time to time.  The 
majority of the disruptions disappeared when I connected some braid from 
the computer frame to the radio ground point...  I use an Icom 756 PRO here 
now.
I had one occurrence in the last RTTY contest on 80m but I know I still 
have some circulating currents in the shack on that band.

One way of confirming RFI as a cause is to find a spot where it occurs 
often and try reducing power output significantly.  If it goes away, 
circulating RF currents are probably the source.

Good luck,
George .. W1ZT

At 09:44 PM 1/14/2004, K4BEV at aol.com wrote:
>So far this year I've done a couple of CW and RTTY contests and had NO
>mis-read frequencies in any log. Tonight I checked into the TCG SSB net 
>and brought
>WL up to check out a log.
>I noticed that the frequency readout kept changing. Apparently this is only
>happening if the radio is in the SSB mode. I sure wish I'd noticed this 
>earlier
>since one of my favorite SSB contests is this weekend.
>This was brought up last year, but somehow became a non-issue, possibly
>because it appeared to go away. A lot of contacts are logged as out of 
>band and
>aren't scored. While it's not a big deal to go back through the log and 
>find and
>change the freqs on those QSOs, it really shouldn't be necessary.
>Is there anyway this can be fixed? Before Saturday would be great - hi -
>
>73, Don - K4BEV
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