[TCARC-NTx] Tarrant RACES net tonight

Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:37:41 -0600

Up until a few months ago, I could leave the radio on for an hour before
our Thursday night rag chew, so I would not forget it, and it never did
get hot.  Now, it gets hot very fast.  In about 3 minutes.  I would take
it to a radio repair shop, but the oil pump on my car is broken, so I am
not driving it right now.  I think it is something like $500.00 to get it
repaired.  I was afraid I would burn up the house if I used the radio.
Joan N5MRJ

On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 20:36:17 -0600 terry <[email protected]> writes:
> Joan M Bartay wrote:
> > 
> > Thank you so much for the reminder.  I am glad that you do that.  
> My
> > radio gets so hot that I can't hold it.  It did not use to do 
> that.  Do
> > you have any idea why?    Joan  Bartay  N5MRJ
> 
> It just depends on how much you transmit. I think you just never 
> noticed
> it before.  Those HTX 202's get pretty hot when you power them at 
> 13.5v
> and transmit on high power which makes about 6 or 7 watts and 
> sometimes
> 8.  The back and belt clip serves as the heat sink for the output
> transistors and they do heat up if you stay keyed down for any 
> length of
> time.  (I know, I've got one I've had for 7 or 8 years now.)  
> If you just use the external speaker mike, you won't have to touch 
> it.
> 
> But, no... that's normal, they just heat up and there's not much you 
> can
> do about it.  The good news is, they're built to take it and will
> normally function okay in spite of the extreme heat they generate.
> 
> --
> Registered Linux User #188099
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