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

William,

Thanks for this report. My first impressions of the VR-500 regarding  
reliability are good. It has a stable feel to it, just like my other  
wideband radios.

Chuck


Quoting "William S. White" <[email protected]>:

> 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.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
>
>
>



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