MTR2000 Failure

[RWhite]

I have a MTR 2000 for the 900 MHz band (hacked to the ham band). It has never been used as a repeater since I acquired it a few years ago, but was scheduled to be on my 927.1125 repeater freq. one of these days. I turned it ON after it had been OFF for a better part of a year (out in the garage but dry). It came on, but instead of the green LED staying lit after it warmed up, the 4 LEDs blinked for sometime and then the red LED (far left) stays lit. The manual says that means a major malfunction. Before I dig into the repeater, does anyone have an idea what has happened? I had just successfully reprogrammed it to a new freq. pair, but this situation has cropped up.

Roger W5RDW
Murphy, Texas

[Bill_G]

As with any radio that suddenly has problems after being moved out of band, load the original codeplug as the first step in troubleshooting.

[MSS-Dave]

Any chance it was running with an external frequency reference before? If it's not there now, it will do kind of what you are seeing. If you can read with the RSS, check out that selection in the station configuration screen and make sure internal standard is set and not external 5 or 10 mhz. If that looks right, do what Bill suggests and load the orginal codeplug if you have it stored or use the default 900 station codeplug that's in the RSS and reenter your info as needed. If you have wildcards programmed, save that config if you can read the station first so you don't have to re-invent the wheel so to speak.

Dave