I've owned a Satellit 800 for about 4 years. I've been using
it a lot lately and have started to notice a very odd, annoying
phenomenon with the tuning knob. Basically, when you turn it in one
direction, the frequency goes in the opposite direction, and it takes
several seconds and several tries to get it to go in the right
direction. Anyone else encounter this?

Apparently I'm not the only person to have experienced this:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...0d1c302f7b3f29

"the most annoying problem being that theres some back-frequency
jumping occasionally when the tuning knob is being turned clockwise"

I can only assume that I went 4 years without noticing this because I
relied more on the slew buttons, keypad, and memories to get around
than on the tuning knob (unless the problem is recent).

Is there a fix?

Igor