Message-Id: <20050712130325.REVM18668.ibm62aec.bellsouth.net@[68.212.116.147]> John wrote: >I would just get like a muffin fan or something and keep it blowing >on the radio all the time. I actually know some one who burnt up 1 >of those radios in his car, same model on high power. Yet another >problem with yaesu equipment, the uhf/vhf equipment gets way too >hot. NOt just Yaesu. I've got a Kenwood tm-261a in my van which only has the 270 model air conditioner, ya know, 2 windows down, 70 mph. HERe in Louisiana most of the time that radio is as unusable to the sighted as it is to the blind. You transmit and get a farting sound and no real audio. LEt it cool down and you can transmit actual audio again. BViggest lemon radio I ever bought <grumble> getting ready to buy the xyl a little amplifier for her old Icom 02-at. Forget the 261, I can't program the damned thing anyway, I can program the Icom for her at least. I'd do as John suggests, put a muffin fan on the back of that sucker and just have it blowing all the time. Richard Webb Electric Spider Productions "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the Historical review of Pennsylvania