Keyboard signals, xawtv/radio, xterm, & konsole

Hi;

I noticed something rather odd.

I use the "radio" program that comes with xawtv.

It uses an ncurses front end.

Pressing key "g" then a frequency takes you to the station you want to listen to.
Pressing the up arrow lets you "scroll the tuner".

I've found that if I press the up arrow AFTER using "g" to get to a frequency that I will be kicked out of radio and find myself back in the xterm.

This happens with xterm and konsole. Does not happen with rxvt.

I am wondering if this has something to do with international keyboard settings( which I have set to American via KDE)?

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

Steve