[Kenwood] TS-850SAT won't stop scanning

[Clif]

Oh well the easy fixes are all taken. Measure the voltage on the up
and down pins on the mike jack. They should be the same. One is
probably lower than the other and that's the direction it's going.
Look for a shorted cap on that scan line.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Walter Miller, AJ6T <aj6t at comcast.net> wrote:
> Clif,
>
> Thanks very much for the response.  I don't have a mike connected to the
> TS-850 at all, so that is not the source of the spurious scanning command.
>  I suspect that somewhere inside the rig a scan control bit has been set,
> and that it is stuck in that position.  Has anybody else seen this kind of
> out-of-control scanning?   73, Walt, AJ6T
>
> Clif wrote:
>>
>> Check the scan button on the mike.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Walter Miller, AJ6T <aj6t at comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> My old reliable TS-850SAT has suddenly come up with a problem related to
>>> scanning.  The rig now scans frequency continuously, and the only way I
>>> can stop it is by pressing the F.LOCK button or by pressing and holding
>>> the SCAN button.  Resetting the microprocessor by powering up with the
>>> A=B button pressed does not help.  In that case the rig wakes up at
>>> 14.000 MHz and immediately starts to scan upward in frequency.  The main
>>> tuning knob also changes the frequency, but the scan continues.  The
>>> radio receives and transmits normally at whatever frequency was on the
>>> display when the F.LOCK button is pressed.  When the F.LOCK button is
>>> pressed again (or the SCAN button is released), the scanning resumes.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> 73, Walt, AJ6T
>>>
>>>
>



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