Re: Re: New member, VR-500 arrives!

At one time, I thought I saw a list of all known birdies for the VR-500.
FWIW, mine also has the 15.2 MHz birdie.
Bob Parnass, AJ9S, documents birdies above 30 MHz in this MT review:
http://www.monitoringtimes.com/html/mtscan0200.pdf
And could/should be programmed in the Frequency Skip Memory Bank (memory 
S00 - S99). See page 12 in the manual.
The VR-500 is very reliable. I have had mine for 8 years now and not a 
single problem. I do not use it as much as I have in the past, just mostly 
collecting dust now.


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Subject: Re: [VR-500] Re: New member, VR-500 arrives!


Ed,

Thanks! I haven't tried setting the VR-500 to NAM mode yet, so far
I've done well with it just as it is. One problem I did run into is
the presence of a strong internal spur on 15.200, and a weaker but
still overpowering one on 15.400MHz. I can't find anything here that
might be generating carriers on those frequencies, so they must be
internal. Other than that, the VR-500 is passing all my tests on
favorite frequencies. The real test apparently will be how reliable
the radio is. Time will tell. The warranty card will take a year to
fill out, they want to know everything about me!

Chuck