Just to say that my early FT1000 (S/No OPO40302) does the same as your
friends. It takes another half a second to "tune" after a bandchange
when going to TX ... even into a dummy load ....no idea why!
Did anyone else have any thoughts ?
73
In article <36F41A82.FED9AA79@erols.com>, Dave Jordan <wa3gin@erols.com>
writes
>
>Hi Folks,
>
>
>My friend and I both have FT-1000s. But they operate differently as it
>relates
>to the auto-tuner. I can move from band to band, say from 75m to 40m
>with
>the tuner "on" and when I move the bandswitch the wait indicator lites
>for a
>few moments in receive mode (I can hear the tuner resetting). I transmit
>
>and no other indications are apparent, i.e. the wait lamp does not lite.
>
>On my friends rig, under the same scenario when he goes to transmit the
>wait lamp lites for a few moments and the auto-tune unit makes a slight
>adjustment.
>
>Remember we are not moving freq., just switching back and forth between
>to bands. At first we thought it might be a low memory battery but we
>changed
>it and the new battery has made no difference in the operation of the
>auto-tuner in my friends rig. We are both using the same level of
>software,
>level 6.
>
>I wonder if the age of the radios may be what is the difference? My rig
>is a
>perhaps several years younger than my friends.
>
>Both rigs auto-tume just fine. But my friends has that slight
>hesistation and
>re-tune during the first few moments of transmitting. This will also
>occur even
>if he stays on the same band and just changes frequency. While he turns
>the freq. dial the wait lamp will lite (which is normal operation). He
>stops
>at a freq. the wait lamp goes off. He transmits and the wait lamp will
>again
>lite and the auto-tuner will reset slightly (within moments), then the
>wait lamp
>goes out, etc.
>
>We don't know if something is not working correctly, like the tuner
>isn't setting
>up properly in the first place or if this is just some odler hardware
>programing
>fluke that was fixed in later models.
>
>thoughts are welcome,
>dave
>
>
>p.s. No we didn't try it into a dummy load but we will just to ensure RF
>isn't
> getting back into the circuitry and causing false setting.
>
>
>
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