Re: Band Scan problem

Hi, I agree about the low battery behaviour. As you 
have probably found, it is often impossible to use or 
to turn off the radio once the low battery warning has 
started, and it usually runs out of juice and corrupts 
something or other. The bandscope corruption can be 
cured by turning on the bandscope and then holding in 
the function key and pressing the "mode" key a couple 
of times. I sent Yaesu an email a couple of years ago 
about these problems and they replied to say that my 
comments had been passed on to their development team, 
but no firmware upgrades or fixes have been forthcoming. 

Generally speaking it's a useful little radio, but could 
be made a lot better with little development effort. I 
wonder if current versions of the VR-500 include any fixes!! 

Regards 

Voi 




--- In [email protected], "shakennotstirred123" 
<shakennotstirred123@...> wrote:
>
> True for all of us.  I put the 500 aside for a while and used a 120 
for 
> a long time.  There are advantages and disadvantages to both.  I 
forgot 
> how quick and easy the 500 is to set up and use in the field.
> 
> I use it for SWLing, satellite work, and fox hunting, as well as 
for 
> monitoring ham repeaters and public safety channels.  It is a 
pretty 
> versatile radio.  My only real complaint with it is that you get 
almost 
> no warning when the battery is going to die, and then it can mess 
up 
> the bandscope.
> 
> --- In [email protected], Dave <dave@> wrote:
> >
> > Wow... Thanx... It's amazing what you can forget in a year.
> >
>