||>I called a friend who has the same setup, he did the same - Bang - no ||display.
||>We linked the problem to the TSU-7, but it seemed independent of the 3rd
||>band. We went to HRO on Saturday to get new radios. We tested some (with
||>no 3rd band and no tsu-7 [ctcss] installed) and we took locked them up, too.
||How did you determine is was related to the TSU-7? Can you "unlock" a
||locked up radio by removing the TSU-7?
We could both unlock our locked radios by removing the TSU-7 (providing you
had one installed) so you can turn off the S-meter squelch. If the TSU-7 is not installed on the radio and you lock it up in S-meter squelch, I don't know if it will unlock by installing the TSU-7; I never tried it.
In case I was unclear, we could reproduce the problem quickly and easily on a new base radio with NO tsu-7 and no optional third band. So although the TSU-7 allowed us to get control of the radio, it didn't cause the problem. My friend
locked his up with the TSU-7 out of it, and he got control of the radio again
by tearing it apart down to the 2m brick only.
||Last Friday (11/19), I took my locked up radio (w/TSU-7 installed) to HRO
||and they shipped it (w/TSU-7) to Kenwood in LA to be fixed. I figured there
||was no point in just swapping it for another radio, since this is my third
||already.
Too bad about all of this. From the little information that Kenwood gave us, there are a couple of different rev chips out there, and currently rev 3 is supposed to be the one that is correct. I don't know what rev my radio is, but I'm going to try and find out by either looking at the chip or getting a serial number range.
I still have time to return mine for a full refund, and that is probably in my future, unfortunately. I have told the store that I am willing to try a rev 3
radio on a 10 day trial basis, but if there are still problems my money WILL be
