OK, now I understand. I remember reading about the oscillation issue before, but even though I have made several hundred 6m contest QSO's in the past year mine has never had a problem. My rig was a "
The "tighten the circuit board screws" isn't an oscillation fix unique to the FT857/897. I have had to do it to a Yaesu FT100D and Icom 551D as well, and have had a couple of friends have to do it to
And believe it or not, the HW-101 had grounding issues that could be remedied by tightening the mounting screws for the PCBs. :) So always keep that screw driver handy. :) 73, --Alex KR1ST http://www
Something similar happened to me too, but with the MEM/VFO Ch know. You can fix this yourself. It's not really hard if you're somewhat confident in fixing electronics, it just takes some time getting