Good Evening.
I know this isn¡¯t technically the correct place to post this, but I was hoping that given the similarities between the FT-857 and FT-897.?
I¡¯m having an issue with transmit audio that I¡¯m hoping ya¡¯ll can help with.
Info dump to follow:
A few months ago I did a parks on the air activation with my FT-897d and a wolf river coil antenna. Everything went great but I got a couple of mentions of slightly distorted audio. I have never gotten any complaints on my wire, so I chalked it up to my antenna and moved on.?
Fast forward to this week, while on vacation in Florida I got the same mention from two different operators so I had to do something about it.
In talking things over with my dad, we figured out that when another operator was using my radio on field day he may have changed a setting somewhere that could be causing the distortion. In order to rectify this, I performed a master reset on the radio thinking I could just tweak my settings to get back to where I had it before.
After performing the reset, I have been told that it sounds like a wall of static when I transmit. I have verified this with a WebSDR. I was able to get the signal to where it was intelligible by dropping the gain to 10%, but of course no one can hear me. I have been able to get it to ¡°act right¡± here and there, but it inevitably starts blasting out static within a minute or so.
Is there something damaged somewhere? Or is there some setting that I can¡¯t find.?
Any help at all would be much appreciated.?
Kindly,
David - KI5SHY
