Good work, ace. Do you qualify for the lid award? Have done
embarrassing things like that myself; only did it bigger
- ormatted my hard disk on a DOS computer
thinking I was doing a floppy. Of course, idn't back up and lost
everything.--Matt, N1IBB.
At 08:48 AM 10/1/2015, you wrote:
>Well I have been a ham for 46 years and have never ever been so embarrased!
>
>I never never touch the rf gain control but indeed it got turned all the
>way down.
>
>Maybe it was the cat.
>
>Unbelievagle!
>
>Must have grabbed it by mistake thinking I adjusted the squelch.
>
>Holy S$$t.
>
>Thanks Steve you saved my bacon.
>
>Crawling back in to my hole for a long time.
>
>Don
>
>
>
>On 01-Oct-15 8:37 AM, Steve Forst wrote:
> > Don,
> >
> > I screwed up (not for the first time). To switch between ant 1 and ant
> > 2 is the button just under the power button. The one to it's left, just
> > under the pf a key is to do the attenuator and rx ant. A long press on
> > this button will put the rx antenna rca jack on the rear in or out.
> >
> > So maybe rx antenna selected by mistake, wrong ant 1 or 2 selected, or
> > rf gain turned down. Or probably something else.
> >
> > Sorry for the error.
> >
> > 73, Steve KW3A
> >
> > On 10/1/2015 8:20 AM, Steve Forst wrote:
> >> Don,
> >>
> >> Two things to check: RF gain (outer knob around the volume control:,
> >> or wrong antenna selected. A long press on the pre amp / antenna
> >> button will switch between ant 1 and ant 2. Upper left of the radio,
> >> second button down on left side. Just under the PF A key. Not sure a
> >> VFO reset (partial reset) affects the antenna selection. A full reset
> >> does.
> >>
> >>
> >> If it is the RF gain, any sort of reset won't return the knob to the
> >> correct position Knob should be full clock wise for full gain.
> >>
> >>
> >> 73, Steve KW3A
> >>
> >> On 10/1/2015 8:06 AM, Don Breda wrote:
> >>> Wow! Don't know what I hit but all of a sudden, I have no receive audio
> >>> from the 590s.
> >>>
> >>> The external speaker is working because the speech synthesizer comes
> >>> through it nicely but can't hear anything from the receiver.
> >>>
> >>> It is as if the squelch was turned all the way up but it isn't.
> >>>
> >>> No matter what band or freq i go to or what memory I choose the result
> >>> is the same even when I am on the AM broadcast band.
> >>>
> >>> Tried a v f o reset but that did not solve the problem.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone run in to this before and know how to fix it.
> >>>
> >>> Looked through the manual but don't see an answer.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance.
> >>>
> >>> Don
> >>>
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