I read N6TV's post and thought"my mp doesn't do that!" WRONG! A definite pegging of the s meter (we are showing our age-how do you pin a digital s-meter?) It does truncate a character on cw but I guess I havent noticed it because I normally have the two 500s in line as I tune cw. Somwthing to remember in a test though. Now back to my kilocycles 73 Dan W8CAR