[Kenwood] TS-940S Jittery VFO - Follow-up

[Dick Flanagan]

At 01:49 AM 3/5/2005, I wrote:
 >Suddenly tonight my main tuning know stopped working ... sorta.  I turn the
 >know clockwise to increase VFO frequency and the frequency hardly moves and
 >when it does it moves DOWN!  I can spin the knob in either direction and
 >the frequency will jitter up or down in a random fashion.
 >
 >However, if I physically pull the tuning knob toward me and place tension
 >on it, it will tune relatively normally.
 >
 >The VFO frequency will also jitter on its own without even touching the
 >knob.  This works on VFO A and B, under both transmit and receive.

Follow-up:  I ended up sending the radio to Kenwood East.  They turned it 
around in two weeks and replaced the VFO encoder.  The radio now works 
perfectly.

73, Dick
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Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM
E-mail: k7vc at arrl.org