Re: Band Scan problem

Thanks for the tip on the bandscope fix.  I didn't know that one.  I 
went through the S-meter recalibration procedure to fix mine.  Your 
method looks a lot easier.

--- In [email protected], "voip10" <voip10@...> wrote:
>
> 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 
> 
>