Wait you are a ham. Do you have a 2m rig on board? If so you can try that antenna for receive and see what you get. Even if it's just a hand held antenna with an adapter to go from UHF to BNC.
There are a few things you can do to try to test out there but nothing that is going to be exact. Does the radio have the weather channels on it? If so how do they come in? I would hate to have you start doing anything internal on the working radio since it's your lifeline if you have a problem. I would however start looking at the other one to see what you can do with it. Have you tried disconnecting the mic from that one? I have a VHF radio that seems to have some problems in the mic and it goes into different modes even when I am not touching anything. Start there then open the thing up and look for anything out of the ordinary. We may need to find a way to ship you a radio to use while you ship yours here so that I can throw it on the service monitor and see if it is the receiver front end. Are you planning to be in Florida any time soon? Vern KI4ONW -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Flying Pig Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] VHF ant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Skolnick" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] VHF ant >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 Hi, Dave, Sorry we'll miss crossing paths... The rx on 68 has been troublesome for more than a year. I'd thought it maybe an anomaly in GT based on where folks were txg from, but it's severe here, so I conclude it's the same thing. I agree about affordability of repair, and I'm not adequately equipped for component-level repair, but I think I'll be able to chase that down (antenna feed or radio) relatively shortly. L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hand (Richard Bach) _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
