[Kenwood] problems with the 599d twins

[manualman at juno.com]

Are both the receiver and the transmitter bandswitch on the same band? If
not, only the receiver will work when the back switch is in transceive.

Pete, wa2cwa
http://www.manualman.com

On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 16:22:06 -0400 (EDT) "yash at aol.com" <yash at aol.com>
writes:
> Have a pair of twins,t599d/r-599d. When following the manual to tune 
> the transmitter ,every thing goes fine , easy 100 watt output . The 
> manual says to tune the transmitter with the transceive/ seperate 
> switch on the back in separate,the light is then on for the 
> transmitter vfo. when Iam done, I push the switch back to 
> transceive, transmitter light goes out . I then put the receiver - 
> transceiver switch to RX and the receiver comes to life. 
> When I key the transmitter, receiver mutes as it should..........BUT 
> NO output from the transmitter, on ssb. Now If I do NOT touch any 
> thing except to slide the  transceive/seperate, back to separate 
> when I key the transmitter all is fine,full out. 
>       These are new to me ,have had a bunch of kenwoods hybrids over 
> the years, these are the first twins.
> anyone have any suggestions as to where to start.? I rang out the 
> transceive cable, checks fine. 
> 73
> dale wt4t