[Kenwood] Tuning rate too fast on TS-940S

[Dennis Younker NE6I]

My 940 does about 12 kHz per revolution, which is fine most of the time. 
When going several hundred kHz all at once (IE top of phone band to low end 
of CW band), it's not as fast as I would like. Obviously, there is a 
balancing point. For fine tuning stations, I wouldn't want it much faster 
than the current rate. It would be difficult to zero beat the station I am 
listening to.

The Geihl chip does more than just change the tuning rate. I wasn't aware of 
this chip before now.  Making the memories tunable is a neat idea. However, 
changing the main tuning knob to slower rates than I have now is of limited 
interest to me. And adding a feature to make the 1 MHz up and down buttons 
change memory banks? Why? Pressing the memory bank buttons works pretty well 
for me. Interesting chip though....

--Dennis NE6I

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kirkby at onetel.net>
To: "Bud Haynes" <kv7g at netcommander.com>
Cc: <kenwood at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Kenwood] Tuning rate too fast on TS-940S


> On 07/ 8/11 05:59 PM, Bud Haynes wrote:
>>
>>
>> Subject: [Kenwood] Tuning rate too fast on TS-940S
>>
>> I have a couple of TS-940S rigs. One (the older one) tunes far too 
>> quickly.
>> I've seen another chip is available on the internet which solves this and
>> has other features, but is there any way of just solving this, without
>> spending $50 on a new chip?
>>
>> Dave
>> *************************************************
>> Dave
>> I am reasonably sure there is a mod to change the tuning rate, I
>> have a bunch of old sheets of mods and bulletins stored away, they were 
>> from
>> Kenwood and another outfit that published for, Kenwood,Yaesu and Icom.
>> I will get one of daughters to try to dig them out and if I find them I 
>> will
>> let you know, no promises though.
>> I can't look for them myself as I am badly handicapped.
>> Bud - KV7G
>
> Thank you very much Bud. That would be helpful. I can understand why 
> someone
> created a chip which tuned more slowly, but I don't feel the need for 
> other
> features of that.
>
> Dave
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