Mike,
I have a brand new UBitx also and it too is inoperable, apparently due to the encoder.? One of my encoder terminals appears to be shorted to ground - hence the really spastic operation of the UBitx.? Same symptoms as yours, I'd bet, so a new rotary encoder is in my future too.? You mentioned purchasing five from DigiKey - can you provide me with the part number you ordered so I can repeat the order?? This appears to be another case of inexpensive (aka cheap?), untested components that have to be replaced to make the transceivers work.
Thanks in advance for your help - I hope the encoder fixes my transceiver as well as it did yours.
73, Bob
