. Now I have full access to the internal menu. I have tried to tune the suggested 1.9 Ghz freq and that's where I run into problems. The wierd thing is the problem seems intermittent, and I am not really sure where to look for it. The first time I tried it, I got RF VCO range is too high! Then after reheating all the solder joints on both VCOs the first VCO went through the tuning process with no problems but then I got IF VCO range too low!(I think it was too low) Then I reheated the solder joints and broke the first one again (doh). Eventually I tried resoldering some suspect looking joints on the pll chip. This worked... at first. I got the following output:
PLL for RF freq 1950MHz & prescaler 8: B=243 A=6
midpoint @1
bandwidth tuning...
PLL for RF freq 1900MHz & prescaler 8: B=237 A=4
238 done!
PLL for RF freq 850MHz & prescaler 8: B=106 A=2
midpoint @54
bandwidth tuning...
PLL for RF freq 800MHz & prescaler 8: B=100 A=0
20 done!
Now first of all, I was pretty happy that it seemed to be working. I restarted the device and tried to tune a new program... except now I got the RF VCO range too high! error again... except I didn't do anything save for turn on and off the power. I tried to tune the program that had just worked... RF VCO range too high! Looking back at the output I realized the numbers ### done! on my wave bubble do not match ladyadas which makes me think there is an error somewhere else in the system and the tuning process was able to work through it only by digi pot settings that differ from what they should be. Appreciate the help.
Jman