I'm curious what firmware versions those who are having problems with this transponder are using?
I've been having unrelated problems with my
Mercury, but while experimenting, I just tuned in this transponder to see if it does anything to my Mercury, and it doesn't. My Mercury works fine with this transponder. I scanned in all the FTA channels and played them all, and had no slow-downs.
I'm using ver 1.33, which I upgraded to immediately after getting the receiver. At the time, I had a reason, some reported bug I think, but I can't remember what it was. There is a newer version now on the Fortec site, however I *THINK* that is the version that a couple people have put on their receivers, and had problems, so I haven't put that one on my receiver.
As I said, I'm having problems with my Mercury right now, but I don't think they are related to the firmware version or this transponder.
Anyway, if anyone upgrades to the new version and has problems, perhaps this ver 1.33 might be another option.