Systems Saber UHF: Error Tone on TX

[kc7gr]

Fellow batters,

I have an odd one on the bench at the moment, and was hoping for some insights. It's a UHF Systems Saber, version CON-6, programmed with all conventional (hamateur) frequencies. Receive is fine, but upon trying to transmit all I get is a brief flash of the TX light followed by a continuous (as long as the PTT is held down) 'out-of-range' tone.

It's as if the thing is treating conventional modes like trunked. No system, you get OOR tone.

So: Anything in particular I should check for in the codeplug? Or could this be an actual hardware issue?

Thanks much.

[ahab]

Sounds like the codeplug is set for a different split than the hardware is for.

Have you checked the modules to see which UHF split the radio hardware is for?

[N9LLO]

all channels strapped for securenet with no key loaded ?

Chris
N9LLO

[kc7gr]

Good guesses, yes, but in this case the problem has turned out to be... a bad synthesizer/VCO module. It's going unlocked on transmit for reasons that remain unknown to me.

Thanks to all who replied.