{Spam?} [1000mp] Rig scanning down

[Rod Elliott]

My Field scans down when both a) the top front right corner of the 
rig is hot (desk lamp on it) and b) the Noise Blanker is on. My cure 
was to move the desk lamp... your rig in a hot place?

GL
Rod Elliott VE3UW

At 07:46 6/13/2007, you wrote:
>Hello.
>I have a 2.5 year old MP Mark V Field, last night I noticed that the 
>rig was scanning down and no matter what button I pressed it would 
>not stop. I noticed on the VA3CR web page there is a mention of this 
>problem under "FQY jump".
>     It mentions "It seems that the wire connected to the shuttle 
> jog slider behind the main dial was mounted too close to the front 
> panel so that if there is any exposed wire it shorts to ground on 
> occasion when the dial is moved"
>     When I opened up the transceiver I could not see how to get 
> into this area behind the tuning dial, anyone know the best way to 
> get at it, does the front panel have to come off ?.
>     When I put the top and bottom covers back on and switched the 
> rig back on the problem had disappeared but I'm sure it's going to 
> come back again.
>
>                                                                 Thanks  John.
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