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Mike it appears that your encoder was setup properly as you described. With the first press of the encoder get you into the menus at this point if you rotate the encoder knob you will step through various selections. At this point you will need to press the encoder again to select that menu item using your example of band select if you rotate the encoder knob now it will step through the bands/frequencies in large steps the upper line will say Press to Confirm while the lower line will change with each step. Press the encoder knob now will save the selection on the lower line of the display. I hope this will help but sorry to hear you already removed the encoder.

Skip Davis, NC9O?

On May 18, 2018, at 15:07, Mike aka KC2WVB <rb5363@...> wrote:

Thanks for addressing this issue, Daniel

I would show a picture of the encoder but I removed it. It's only a few wires with yellow being a raduino ground that goes to the middle pin out on the three pin out side. Yellow also goes to the top pin out when viewing the encoder from its non-shaft side and the two pin outs are on the left side of the encoder. Red then attaches below yellow on the two pin out side and the remaining black and brown wires attach to the top and bottom pin outs on the three pin out side. Here it really does not matter because if you switch black and brown you get reverse direction but I placed black on top and brown on the bottom when looking at the encoder from behind and with the three pin outs on the right side.?

However, remember even if the push feature was perfect the rotary feature of the encoder was only operating half correctly. I.e. the pin out for the brown wire stayed at a constant high state while rotating the shaft in any direction. I think it was 4.54 volts dc.

The push feature under a voltage test was erratic, so much so that I don't really know how to easily verbalize its behavior. Regardless, I should have something other than strictly two items that read "Band Select" without an ability to select a band and "Press to Confirm" which is not meaningful if a band is not able to be selected when the encoder shaft is pushed inward. As a matter of fact there is a host of menu items that are selectable by the encoder but it is not presumably letting me in.

I am 99% certain the encoder that came with the kit was meant to be in the manufacturers trash pile and I will know for certain the encoder is the only issue my kit has when the new encoders arrive, most likely, Monday.

I am building the sister radio, BitX 40, now. It does not use a rotary encoder to tune the radio, rather it uses a 10K potentiometer. I suppose this is because it being a single band radio needs not a menu function that allows the operator to make changes. I am thinking, until the new encoder arrives I can probably get some tuning along the band its stuck on, ie 40 meters, by using a 10K potentiometer in lieu of the encoder. What do you think of the Idea??

Thanks for your interest.

Mike

On May 18, 2018 2:03 PM, "Daniel Conklin" <danconklin2@...> wrote:

Mike, It appears to be doing what it's supposed to do when you press it.? Post a photo of the back showing how you have it wired.
Daniel, W2DLC