[Kenwood] TS-450S woes.

[Marty Grove]

Hello Ken.

I'll offer up a one-word response:  Clif Holland, KA5IPF

I guess that's more than one word, but I highly recommend Clif for all 
things Kenwood when it comes to Kenwood HF radios.  For a sick radio, I 
would shoot him an email with the symptoms and after an exchange or two 
you might want to send the radio to him.  He serviced my TS-440S several 
years ago and I could not have been any happier with his service.  He 
has an impeccable reputation for assisting us Kenwood folks all across 
the Internet.  You can find his contact info on his website:  
http://www.avvid.com/

He'll treat you (i.e. your friend) right!

Marty - KJ4LQX
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On 10/22/2017 01:48 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> A good friend has a nice TS-450S, which has begun to have problems with the audio in
> transmit. The ALC reading pegs out or drops to zero with no setting in between. In other
> words, it cannot be set so that a normal voice is centered in the ALC scale. It is either all or
> nothing, so to speak.
>
> Furthermore, on the air, both with the original hand-mike, and with a correctly wired Turner
> Plus 3 which I have successfully used with my own Kenwood rigs, the audio sounds distorted
> most of the time, like some audio stage is being overdriven.
>
> Is this a common problem with the TS-450S and if so, where would one begin to look?
>
> Also, is there someone who still services these in case my friend, Bob Isenberg KL2JY,
> needs to send it off?
>
> Ken W7EKB
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