K2 Colleagues,
My boat-board (alas, 36 feet does not make a ship) K2/100 with KAT100
gives me info80 displays on chilly damp mornings. It will step through
the bands but it takes two taps to do it, one to change the band and
then another to get rid of info80 and get the frequency display.
I checked the archives but could find only a single note about this
problem and the gist of the comments were that that problem might have
been a construction anomaly. I have to assume that if this were an
endemic problem, it would have showed up at field day or with the guys
who camp out with these things.
Has anyone else expereinced this problem?
It's been suggested that I clean the interior of the radio-especially
around the IC pins and look for any stray flux, etc. and then spray the
entire interior with some sort of varnish made for this purpose. I
really don't want to do this, but am worried that I will ultimately
have to deal with corrosion problems if I don't do something. It has
even been suggested that the problem is in the IC sockets and that I
should replace them with gold-plated ones.
Any ideas?
John Ferguson KI4NGH M/V Arcadian now on the hard in Brick, NJ
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