Hi Howard.

I think that "UL" stands for "unlock."  It probably means that you are
having a PLL synthesizer go into an unlock condition.

Probably that is not what you wanted to hear.

73, de Lou K2LKK


At 10:17 PM 5/25/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Tonight, I went up to 20 meter phone, around 14.300.  All of a sudden my
>ts480 stopped playing, sent the cw letters "ul" and went silent.
>The same thing hapened after turning it off, reseting it, turning off the
>supply, changing vfo's, and changing modes.  Stayed on in the AM position,
>but not either sideband, cw, or rtty.
>I am afraid it
>'s time to go to the shop, but wonder if anybody has seen this type of
>thing?  What does ul mean?
>Here it means "oh no!!!

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