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Dynon com radio not changing always frequencies


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This is aimed at Phoenix owners with the Dynon Skyview system AND the Dynon SV-COM-C25 com radio. The radio works very well most of the time, and it's frequency acquisition from Skyview is magic. My problem: when I switch frequencies ("flip-flop"), say from CTAF to AWOS, the new frequency (AWOS in this case), is not always received. I've posted this problem on the Dynon forum at:

http://dynonavionics.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1399823774/0#0

but I'd like to know if any Phoenix owners have experienced the same problem. At this point, I don't have any idea if it's the radio, the installation, the Phoenix, something to do with specific airports, or a combination of things.

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After some attempts to understand the problem, Dynon sent me a new radio that completely cured the problem, so I was able to depart on my month long trip without delay. Thanks, Dynon!

Besides fixing the problem with not receiving the new active frequency after switching the active/standby frequency, the new radio is much more tolerant of random static from a couple ground sources near the RLD airport, and the "Dual Watch" no longer has big clicks in the audio when listening to the standby frequency. It's now the great radio I hoped it would be.

I do wish it had an easy, quickly adjustable squelch, so I don't have to listen to every airport within a 90 nm radius that uses the same frequency when I'm landing somewhere. I could set it to squelch distant transmissions, but often want to hear distant AWOS stations, or talk to other glider pilots flying far from me.

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