[1000mp] sticking relay problem

[Bill]

Interestingly, I have had the exact same problem for some time. It =
started,
as you described, with the radio going "deaf" only occasionally, but it =
got
worse. Just as you mentioned SUB VFO B doesn't seem to be affected. As =
it
got worse, I think that this same problem began to give a harsh note to =
many
signals on CW.

I finally got disgusted and called Burghart. I sent it to them and got =
it
back after about 30 days. It still had the problem. I called them back =
and I
returned it (no charge) for another 30 days. They seemed to have =
difficulty
getting it to reproduce. I am not so sure that it is a relay problem.=20

I have had the radio back for a while and I have still had two or three
re-occurrences of the problem but it seems much better.  (It happened =
this
morning while I was calling 3B9C.) Apparently, it is not so easy to fix.
Hitting a dit or turning off and on doesn't seem to affect mine.

I decided not to send it back again. (Burghart even offered to make a =
good
deal on a new radio/trade-in. I think they are a pretty good company.)
Finding an intermittent problem that happens every two or three weeks is
pretty hard, and I don't want to give up my radio for six months. One of
these days it will fail and I'll send it back.

Que sera,

Bill, W5VX

"Organizations are aligned perfectly for the results they get."=20