[Yaesu] FT-900 synthesizer noise

[Lucien Stavenhagen]

Hi all,

I have an FT-900 that seems to have a problem. Or, at least, I'd like to 
know if it's a problem. It seems to exhibit what sounds like synthesizer 
noise, most notably in the 10mhz band. It's loudest if you just have a 
small piece of wire in the antenna jack (not coax, just placing a wire 
right there in the center conductor) and with the microphone plugged in. 
On my unit, I hear interference when the tuning knob is rotated, or the 
shift knob..in fact, if I move any of the controls of the front panel, I 
hear this quite loudly. This is with the noise blanker off; I've tried 
turning on IPO, etc. The unit appears to be picking up RF from the 
operations of the front panel unit. The thing that's odd about this is it 
didn't do this when I first bought it (the unit is about a month old).
Is this a problem that you all have seen? Or can someone with an FT-900 
confirm this?

Thanks,
Lucien S.
KF5XR

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