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Spectra display issues after re-cap
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:50 pm
by wes11b10
So, I re-capped my VHF Spectra. Upon powering it up, I noticed that EVERY segment, every LED is lit on the display. I thought the radio was horribly destroyed by my ham-fisted soldering technique but, oddly enough, it seems to operate just fine. I just got a good audio report from a fairly distant repeater. Does anyone have any idea what I might have done to hose this up and how I might fix it?
Thanks as always!
Re: Spectra display issues after re-cap
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 8:04 pm
by Will
I won't say ham fisted, but the circuits are probably eaten away.
Re: Spectra display issues after re-cap
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:31 pm
by wes11b10
Resloved! Well, not really. I had a spare display board laying around that I swapped for the original and it works. I didn't notice any board damage from leaky caps on the original - maybe I put one of the replacement caps in backwards? In any case, I now have a working Spectra and am faced with the dilemma of what to put into the memory as far as modes go - so far, I am putting every 2-meter repeater in the tri-state area in it. And, so far, this has been the most tedious part of the programming process - just figuring out what I want in the damn thing! All in all, it's a great radio and I look forward to using it.
Re: Spectra display issues after re-cap
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:34 pm
by Will
Great, and figuring out IF the repeater directory frequency list is up to date.