[Kenwood] TS430 reliability

[Ken Winterling]

Joe,

Take a look at Service Bulletin SB-902.  It addresses those intermittent
TS-430 LPF relays and how to fix them without replacing them.  I have used
this procedure on a couple TS-430s and it works.

http://www.qsl.net/w/wb4kdi//Kenwood/TS-430S/Service%20Bulletins/asb0902.html

Ken
WA2LBI


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Joe <nss at mwt.net> wrote:

> the only problem mine has is the relays that switch in and out band pass
> filters are dirty.,,, well one of them is because the receiver goes dead
> from 4.0 MHz till,  6.5 MHz total deadness nothing heard between those two
> freqs you can hear the relays click and the receiver comes back to life
> above and below those two freqs.
>
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