[1000mp] Mark V Field Rx Anomolies

[Mike Manship]

Do all versions of the MP do this ?
73 de Mike W9OJ

At 05:58 PM 5/4/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Carl:
>    These "bumps" are a "feature" of the radio.  If you have enough
>noise coming from the antenna, you will not notice them.  I too find
>them disconcerting.
>        73   Mac   N8TT
>J. Mc Laughlin  -  Michigan USA
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carl Kratzer" <k3rv@usa.net>
>To: <1000mp@mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 5:47 PM
>Subject: [1000mp] Mark V Field Rx Anomolies
>
>
>My new Mark V Field exhibits a strange behavior in the receiver.
>Approximately ever 82 kHz, there is a slight click when tuning across
>the
>frequency.  For example on 15 meters, at 21054.17, 21136.10, 21218.02,
>21299.97 and 21381.88.  They are not signals, birdies, or heterodynes.
>They
>have no bandwidth or signal strength.  They seem to be some type of
>"artifacts" of the synthesizer, perhaps.  Oddly, the same thing happens
>with
>the subreceiver on the same freqs.  Even stranger, if I tune across
>these
>freqs using the clarifier knob rather than main VFO, they are NOT
>present!!
>The behavior does not impair the use of the radio, but it is somewhat
>annoying.
>
>Has anyone else experienced this in an MP, Mark V, or Field?  Any
>recommendations?  Do I have defective unit?  Thanks, Carl K3RV.