Hello,
If you are looking for a better knob for the Scout or TT-526 6N2 radios,
may I suggest that you get an Icom-706 tuning knob. It fits both rigs and
has a true free rotating finger hole.
My Scout does not have feedback in the headphones or the speaker. And the
tuning is well, the tuning. It is a PTO rig and for tuning you get what you
get. All in all it is a great little rig.
73 Keith
de KE4TEG
At 07:05 AM 07/03/2002 -0700, James C. Owen, III wrote:
Hi Allen,
The simple answer to both of your questions is YES. There is
a little audio feedthrough to the speaker but I never found it to
be a real problem with a speaker, becomes more anoying with
headphones. I'm not sure if there is a fix for this.
The VFO is pretty stiff and it takes a lot of twisting to go
from one end of a band to the other. This is my mail gripe about
the rig. I've been looking for a knob with a crank or at least a
finger hole but haven't found one small enough. We need one
that's not more thatn 1.5 inches.
The other "problem" ? I've had is that there are a couple of
frequencies that the gate signal from the counter causes a beep,
beep and of course it's always on a frequency you want to
monitor.
The one that bothers me is 14.336 the county hunters frequency.
There is a way to cure it on SSB and that is to switch to the
speed setting, this way it moves the gate frequency to a
different spot. The VFO is now always unlocked but mine never
drifts after a 15 minute warmup. I can leave it on all day and
not touch it.
73 Jim K4CGY
--- - <AE0Z@compuserve.com> wrote:
> I just acquired a very nice Scout and have a couple of
> questions...
>
> Is it normal to have some "feedback" thru the speaker when you
> modulate the
> unit with the microphone (occurs in antenna or dummy load).
> Is the PTO knob usually fairly "stiff"? (Possible is this an
> intentional
> drag to keep things on freq during mobile operation, etc.?)
> Allen Bush, AE0Z
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