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Alinco radio problem

x-no-archive: I bought an ALinco DR 590 dual band amature radio at a hamfest. It is a

mobile. Got it home, hooked it up, everything on the display lit up. I mean everything, even things that were not supposed to. The frequency number has stange lines in it. It was not usable.

Figured out that I could reset it. (Pressing function button with power button) and it would start working again like normal) If I left and came back even with leaving the radio on it would go back to not working.)

I replaced the battery and this still did not fix the problem.

Any ideas?

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stryped
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Not sure but here's a link to the sevice manual directly from the manufacturer. Found it on google.

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I'm thinking maybe power supply problem or somewhere in system control/microprocessor. Sorry can't help more but I've never worked on one of those.

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Jumpster Jiver

Anytime you buy something worth a pretty penny at a hamfest, get the seller's callsign and contact phone number. Don't know how many times I've had to contact hamfest sellers after the sale about broken items that were well advertised as "working perfectly". Many times you come across some insane deals, but you'd be surprised how much lying and deception occurs at hamfests especially with stuff that works, but has tons of little problems you don't realize until after you get home.

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basfm6

I go to hamfests to buy clapped-out radios for parts.

To date I have not had one work worse than I expected.

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Tim Wescott

You asked this same question, about what I assume is this same radio, back in January of this year. There was a whole thread of discussion, which lasted over a month.

The thread seems to have ended up with pretty much everybody concluding that you'd have to send the radio back to the manufacturer for repair, if you want it to work properly.

I think that's still your best choice. Asking the same questions over and over again, and expecting people to be able to diagnose an intermittent problem at a distance, seems unlikely to help matters.

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Dave Platt

Yup, buy it at scrap price and if it works when you get it home, you made out! What happened to the old days when hams would tell you this and that didn't work? I suspect it was about the same time that radio gear went to microproccesor control and things got to tiny for hams to see, let alone WORK on it! There's not too many Heathkits that an average ham couldn't fix, but nowadays it takes an engineer, a technician, a magifying glass, a tweezers and a cold to work on anything (the cold is so you can sneeze while unsoldering components and blow them off the board and out of the radio. Just worked on my Yaesu 857 tonight to modify for full coverage transmit to use with my transverters. They use jumpers that are about the size of a large piece of pepper...

Scott N0EDV

Tim Wescott wrote:

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Scott

"Scott" bravely wrote to "All" (08 Dec 05 01:30:02) --- on the heady topic of "Re: Alinco radio problem"

Sc> From: Scott Sc> sci.electronics.repair:350685

Sc> (the cold is so you can sneeze while unsoldering components Sc> and blow them off the board and out of the radio. Just worked on my Sc> Yaesu 857 tonight to modify for full coverage transmit to use with my Sc> transverters. They use jumpers that are about the size of a large Sc> piece of pepper...

Considering your work technique, it might well be a piece of pepper! Hehehe... ;-)

A*s*i*m*o*v

... When I was your age, we carved transistors out of wood.

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Asimov

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