[Kenwood] TS940S Intermittent on 15m

Thu Feb 9 17:27:05 EST 2006

My venerable 20 year old 940 has developed a very annoying 
intermittent operation on 15m (yeah, today while I was working 3Y0X 
on 15m!!!). The symptoms when they appear are constant, reduced 
keydown output in SSB mode. For example, while talking into the mic 
the modulation disappears and I get a reduced carrier only signal 
out. A few months ago I opened her up and applied DeOxit and 
reseated every connector I could physically get to.....being an 
intermittent makes it a little harder to figure out when you've fixed 
something but it "seemed" that the instances of impaired operation 
went away for a while but have now crept back in.
It's only on 15m....
Anyone else seen anything like this? I can't take it over to Kenwood 
East unless it did it all the time....
Thanks in advance!
Dino KL0S/4
P.S. I did threaten it by telling it I would call AES and order a 
new radio if it didn't start working right....it did and I did work 
Peter I Island....