On 9/17/2022 10:08 PM, Jeff Scott wrote:
Yes. Clearly it works as good as any properly installed radio. So
you're posing these questions for a friend? 🙂
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I detect a note of sarcasm there. No, the questions were for me but
hoping the answer will help others. Â I'm guessing that Michael Quinn
was probably correct with his "open ground" guess. In troubleshooting
this morning I unplugged the cables from the top of the radio that feed
the intercom. They had not been touched for at least a dozen years.Â
Simply unplugging them and plugging them back appears to eliminate the
problem. As I have an extension cable from the radio to the rear
mounted intercom I have several more jacks that I will include in a
cleaning of all the plug / jacks in the system. I can't guess why it
would clear in the past but a near total failure on the last flight was
enough motivation to find and fix the problem.
As to your "suggestion" that it "clearly works as well as any properly
installed radio", how many dash mounted units go a dozen years or more
trouble free. Comparing it to a dash mounted unit, I have a 5 watt, 720
channel nav/com with 4 weather channels, 100 memory channels, a standby
flip flop channel with the press of a button, I've regularly
communicated with the local tower at 20 to 40 mile out, other aircraft
at a greater distance, and picked up transmissions from a jump plane at
altitude at 80+ miles. Also, if I wish, I can remove the radio, slip on
a battery pack and antenna, and in less that a minute I have a portable
radio. I'm not sure what features or performance $1000 more for a panel
mount would buy me. In the end no radio is better than the antenna
feeding it anyway, regardless of price. More often than not that is the
problem with a poorly operating radio. I'm fixed for now and hope to
get back to regular flights soon. Have a good week.
Larry Flesner
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