8400M Waterfall Mirrored Itself.

Jake_NJ

I'm not complaining here, I'm learning.
As an 8400M rookie I just wanted to put this out there...
I was working a net on 40 meters and I noticed a rather powerful signal right up against the station I was working. It almost looked like an AM station on the waterfall display. I tuned up the band a bit to listen to it but nothing was there.
Upon further investigation I realized that my waterfall display was a perfect mirror of itself, split right down the middle of the screen. Everything on the left side of the waterfall display was presented as an exact mirror image on the right side of the display. The left side was correct. The right side was the mirror image of what was in the left.
Note that the radio still tuned and transmitted okay but the waterfall was stuck in "mirror mode".
I shut the radio down for a few minutes and then turned it back on and all was fine.
I did not take a picture of the waterfall defect but the pic below might get the point across...

Mike-VA3MW

Since you have a screen shot, it would be good to get a support case opened for this so we can track it. Make sure you mention what version of SmartSDR you are using.

Jake_NJ

Thank you Mike-VA3MW for the quick reply. I know you have a lot on your plate here every day.
Due to the nature of this radio I expect a certain level of bugs, oddities, and random artifacts.
No problem. 👍️

As a relatively new 8400M owner the only issues I have had thus far are one occurance of the dreaded unrecoverable "Please Wait… " screen, and now the backwards (or mirrored) waterfall display. Note that I have been running v.4.1.5 since day one of ownership.

At this point in time I will refrain from opening a Support Case until there is a recurrence or other issues start to pile up.