Astro Saber 1 Turns on and only shows a green LED, thats it

chartofmaryland · Post by **chartofmaryland** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 9:41 pm

What to do, VOCON or humm, not the RF board, humm. No buttons work, no noise, no squelch break or anything. Humm

Any help,

CHART

MattSR · Post by **MattSR** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 12:22 am

Charge the battery?

ExKa|iBuR · Post by **ExKa|iBuR** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:19 am

That'd be my best guess.

My Jedi radios (MTS and XTS) do this all the time when the battery is too weak to turn on the radio.

Try charging it...or, try a known good battery...your battery could be SOL.

-M

RocketNJ · Post by **RocketNJ** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:31 am

Can you read the radio with RSS?

Wonder if it was inhibited. That would give same condition.

George

10-95 · Post by **10-95** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 6:02 am

Did you attempt to lab the radio??? Sounds like the vocon is shot.

Frank

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:25 am

JASON

IF YOU ARE STILL IN MY NECK OF THE WOODS, DROP BY TONGIHT

WE'LL PLAY

I GET HOME AROUND 10:30 COORDINATE ON 146.955 (UNLESS THE BATT IS DEAD ON MY AS3)

ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS HOLD LEMMIWINKS THE RAT WHILE I CHANGE HIS LITTER

chartofmaryland · Post by **chartofmaryland** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:02 pm

Yeah, battery is up to snuff, no I haven't been able to read it as of yet due to shipping on the programming cable.

So for now I'm gonna shoot by and see seth when I get back up north, so I can get it going, Ex-gov of some sort maybe they blanked the vocon. We'll see.

Anyone have any further news on the Virginia State Police's digital system?

Told around 2008 for northern VA and parts west. Thats the main intent for the radio.

Thanks,

CHART

fireradio · Post by **fireradio** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:04 pm

Yep. Was at the VSP Div 7 HQ not too long ago talking to one of the techs. We won't see anything until 2008/9 at the earliest.

chartofmaryland · Post by **chartofmaryland** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 6:09 pm

Well, took the radio apart and found water damage along the flex down to the contacts at the bottom of the case on the inside, pulled the two screws, popped the plate then cleaned the hell out of the contacts on the flex with a typewriter eraser. Threw it all back together and bingo it works. Excellent. The other one was a ticker. Due to the water damage the contact pins on one of the VOCON boards went to snot. Had to take the contact pins holder off of a regular Model 1 saber to replace it with the one off of the VOCON board. Alittle trimming and it works great. So again, two more VHF Astro Saber 1's for 150.00 a piece. !!!!

Thanks for everyones input.

CHART

fireradio · Post by **fireradio** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:35 am

hmmm.. if you're looking to offload one of those babies...

chartofmaryland · Post by **chartofmaryland** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:34 pm

Well,

If your at dinner tonight. 7 ish at the Bethesda 10-20 Hit Seth up if your coming, or if he's not around

CHART

fireradio · Post by **fireradio** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:27 pm

I couldn't make it tonight, had some business to take care of at the Squad. Just got back to the room and I'm in Fredericksburg, so I wouldn't be ablet get there until 8, knowing traffic, probably even later.

(I'm damn pissed, too. My stomach was set on Mogoloid BBQ, now I gotta find some crappy substitute around here).