Re: Flashing LCD

"Aaron Rockwell" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.recreation.radio.hardware.yaesu.vr-500
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Unfortunately, I already had fully reset the radio before seeing if 
there was a specific corrupt frequency. Any other suggestions before 
it is sent off?

Thanks for everyone's assistance.

--- In [email protected], "Bob Parnass, AJ9S" <yahoo@...> wrote:
>
> Before you send your VR-500 to Yaesu for repair, step through each 
memory 
> channel to see if one or more of them contains a corrupt 
frequency.    
> 
> You could perform a full reset to clear all memory channels, but 
you would
> have to reprogram all of them.
> 
> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 18:34, Aaron Rockwell wrote:
> > Dang. I don't have the skills nor the tools to re-align the 
scanner
> > if that is what needs to happen. Could or should I take it to some
> > type of shop that might fix it -- any suggestions on who I should
> > look for?
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "Bob Parnass, AJ9S" <yahoo@> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 00:39, Mike wrote:
> > > >  Mine has the flashing problem only
> > > > when I try to scan user-programmed memories.
> > >
> > > A flashing display is often employed
> > > by radio designers to indicate to the user that the frequency
> >
> > synthesizer's
> >
> > > phase locked loop (PLL) has become unlocked.   The PLL
> > > needs to remain locked to work properly.
> > >
> > > One or more of the memory channels in your radio may contain a
> >
> > frequency
> >
> > > which causes the VR-500's synthesizer to become unlocked.
> > > That could be due to one of these reasons:
> > >
> > > 1) the memory channel contents have become corrupted and it
> >
> > contains
> >
> > > an out-of-range frequency
> > >
> > > 2) the VR-500 requires realignment
> > >
> > > 3) one or more of the VR-500's synthesizer components has
> >
> > developed a
> >
> > > defect and the phase locked loop can no longer maintain lock 
over
> >
> > the
> >
> > > range of frequencies for which it was designed.
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