I can't think of many hand helds I bought used, ham ones I mean, that didn't
have some quirk with them which was likely the reason the person sold them.
Fact is, hand helds fall in to 2 categories, those that are just never used,
in which case likely you get it used with a junk battery, or it was very
very used, which for a hand held means it's been dropped, probably rained
on, knocked over numerous times, and god only knows what else. Honestly,
I've only sold hand helds when I absolutely had no choice because I needed
money and now I don't even do that because mine fall in the second category
with all my public service I do and hiking, and what not, I very seldom
leave the house without a handheld on me. There's a good reason I stick
mainly with commercial ones besides the performance, they can take it though
I must say I've only killed 2 ham hand helds so far and both were the same
model radio. One I may actually be able to fix I may just need someone to
solder the antenna connector back on it but I find it funny with this
particular model that I managed to have problems with 2 of them and it's my
newest one by far.
-----Original Message-----
From: Colin McDonald
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 7:07 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Update on trouble with radio:
Mike, you did say you bought it used didn't you?
If so, then the display issues are likely the reason it was being sold
cheap.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 1:42 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Update on trouble with radio:
I did a full reset and the beaps came back. When the radio powers up
sometimes the screen is backwards, letters from right to left, and also
backwards, like the letter e would point to the left instead the right,
and sometimes it would come up right, and then sometimes not at all.
I am not sure why it would do that.
Mike
KD2CDU
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