Buddy,

If you haven't already done so, do a reset.  If that doesn't fix the
problem, I'd call Kenwood and tell them what's happening.  The radio should
be under some sort of service warrantee.

Steve

On Saturday 7/24/04 21:46 Buddy Brannan wrote:

>Hi y'all,
>
>Well, my radio came back from Kenwood service safe and (mostly)
>sound. For some reason, VOX was turned on, and open squelch with the
>monitor key made it transmit, which I thought was a dying battery at
>first, then discovered what it really was. Well, I finally managed to
>kill the battery; mostly because I thought it was charging and it
>wasn't.
>
>Now, I plug in the charger to the radio, then plug it into power, and
>we may get the charge lights lit for a few seconds, then they go
>out--and obviously, the battery doesn't charge. I made sure that the
>battery type was set to lithium and not alkaline. Anything else anyone
>thinks I should try? Maybe yet another reset? Anyone got any ideas?
>--
>Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV
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