I was thinking along the same lines as Carl. For your main radio it sounds like the first-stage preamplifier on the receiver isn't working. It's probably just one transistor on that radio. That might be repairable if you have a good grounded-tip soldering iron, can manage reasonable ESD practices, and can find the part. Paying someone to do it is unlikely to be economic. If it's an IC you won't be doing a field repair.
In short, you let the magic smoke out! *grin* The near-simultaneous loss of your other radio is consistent with Carl's suggestion of a nearby lightning strike. 73 es sail fast, dave KO4MI S/V Auspicious _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
