[Kenwood] Kenwood TS-850 strange intermittant

Wed Oct 6 03:00:29 EDT 2004

The rig was an ebay special. I had a bad feeling about this rig. The guy said 
no refunds,
 he rig did work for 5 minutes. Then went into TX Turned off 
radioimmediatly.
Now when the radio comes on , there is no RX audio. The RF gain test is ok. 
turn the
rf gainn down the meter goes up
here is where it gets strange. I leave the rig on 5 secons later the freq 
display blanks to all periodes. If I touuch the VFP knod. the fequny comes bak 
for a few seconds.
NO RX STLL
 I turned the rig off and on many times. Once the RX came back. It workedfor 
10minutes.
 The guy that sold it to me, sounds nervouse. Before I get nasty....any 
ideas/