John;
What are you doing when this happens? My FT-900 did close to the same
thing. It was RF getting back into the CPU. Had to play around with
grounding to get it cured. Good Luck es
73 Dave
WA0ZZG
John D. Martin wrote:
> Aloha, thanks in advance for reading this. I have an FT-890AT with an
> interesting intermittent problem. The entire display will blink off and
> on sometimes just once, other times three or four times then it returns
> to normal. When this happens the needle in the meter will drop and the
> audio goes mute, when the display comes back on, the needle jumps back
> up and audio returns. The meter lamp as well as all the other lamps on
> the radio stay on the whole time and don't even flicker. Another thing
> I noticed is that if the antenna tuner is turned on the green indicator
> light goes off and the turner is also turned off when the display starts
> to blink. After the display stops blinking and rig appears to be
> working normally again, the automatic antenna turner does not come back
> on when the tuner button is pushed. Only way to get it to come back on
> is to off the radio off and turn it back on again and the tuner will
> come back on again when the button is pushed. This problem has been
> totally random, radio will go for days without it happening and
> sometimes several times in one day. Sometimes it happens after being on
> for hours or will happen the first time I turn it on for the day.
>
> Anyone have this problem before or heard about it? Any ideas? Thanks
> again for reading this and any help or ideas you may have. You can
> reply to the reflector or to me at daryl@hawaiian.net.
>
> 73 and Aloha,
> John, WH6EY
>
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