Don,
It's happened to all of us once or more.

Actually it's the god of receivers hinting that you need to learn to use the
R.F. gain, the second most important knob on any receiver. <GRIN>

Tom Fowle WA6IVG

On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 08:48:29AM -0400, Don Breda 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
> >>>