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I have a Motorola Spectra on the 900 MHz ham band. It was working fine then out of the blue, during a QSO, the PL encode quit working. I've been told this can be a common problem with the Spectras. Anyone know how to fix it? I re-capped the unit, it only had 3 leaky caps, all on the RF board, and they had not leaked enough to damage the circuit board. Any help is MUCH appreciated.

You have more caps that have leaked and you can not see the damage under them. Look at your RF board again.

Turns out it was a "hack" issue. Apparantly something was hacked incorrectly in the software. If I read the radio with a "non-hacked" version, you see that the PL tones are not there. Simply re-programing it with the non-hacked version and by changing the PL tones to the proper one fixed my problem. All has been good for over a month now.

I had a similar issue. I bought a radio from a friend and reprogrammed it to my needs but the PL didn't seem to be working. I cloned it from a radio that I knew worked properly and it fixed the problem. I'm guessing it was something that was done in the programming by the previous owner... although he said he never had a problem and we're using the same software... weird.