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problem with my FT857D
开云体育Last weekend I was all set to man a station for the Pole Peddle Paddle in Bend. The 857 Mobile was programmed for the repeaters and checked. But on race day Saturday morning they all went south: first I couldn’t get the primary repeater to answer and I discovered my radio had changed from CTCSS to DCS so I fixed that then I found the ?radio had changed every repeater frequency to simplex! Today I pulled the FT857D which has performed flawlessly for 9 years out of the car and put it on the bench. That’s when I discovered other repeates had also changed to DCS and “SPL” (odd splits) and some other odd things like I transmit on a memory repeater and the radio switches to “VFOB” on transmit. Anyone else have something like this happen? I am going to try uploading some memories with my new RT Systems cable (never used yet) but I am stumped. Any Ideas? Bob – W7SCY |
开云体育Hi Bob, ? Mobile radios can sometimes do funny things. For instance, if you start the vehicle with the radio already turned on it can cause a glitch which can screw up the radio. This is normally fixed by a reset of the radio. ? I suggest that, if you haven’t already done so, ?download the memory information and other settings to a computer, then do a full reset on the radio. ? Next, update all the memory information to the correct settings, save it to the computer and then upload it back to the radio. ? 73….Eric VK2VE. ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of ROBERT WEED
Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2025 10:02 To: [email protected] Subject: [FT-857] problem with my FT857D ? Last weekend I was all set to man a station for the Pole Peddle Paddle in Bend. The 857 Mobile was programmed for the repeaters and checked. But on race day Saturday morning they all went south: first I couldn’t get the primary repeater to answer and I discovered my radio had changed from CTCSS to DCS so I fixed that then I found the ?radio had changed every repeater frequency to simplex! Today I pulled the FT857D which has performed flawlessly for 9 years out of the car and put it on the bench. That’s when I discovered other repeates had also changed to DCS and “SPL” (odd splits) and some other odd things like I transmit on a memory repeater and the radio switches to “VFOB” on transmit. Anyone else have something like this happen? I am going to try uploading some memories with my new RT Systems cable (never used yet) but I am stumped. Any Ideas? Bob – W7SCY |
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On May 19, 2025, at 7:02?PM, ROBERT WEED <bweed@...> wrote:
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开云体育Interesting solution: I uploaded the programming into RTSystems programmer and found errors in programming (“DCS” activated rather than “Tone” for example). I changed the programming? to the correct settings and downloaded it back into the radio and it works on the repeaters I tried including the ones that wouldn’t work at the event on Saturday. Why I couldn’t get it to work by manually programming, I don’t know! There may be a problem with the “A” button on the radio multifunction row D. OR it may just be operator error someplace in the setup! It could be that I should reset it to factory settings and start over since I have the RTS programming saved. If I can find how to do that. Thanks for the idea of disconnecting and reconnecting the cable, Ted. I will do that too! So obvious that I should have thought of it myself. Sort of like the old story “Did you plug it in” Bob-W7SCY ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ted via groups.io
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2025 4:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FT-857] problem with my FT857D ? Try disconnecting and reconnecting both ends of the cable between the main body of the radio and the head multiple times, just in case there's a bit of oxidation present. Let us know if, and how, you get this issue resolved. Thanks! Ted KE4NBB |
开云体育Hi Bob, ? The reset procedures are listed on page 117 of the manual. There are 3 options depending on what you want to reset. ? Remember after any reset to enable menu 1 to get the full menu set, otherwise you won’t see some of the menu items as you scroll through the menus. Leaving it off hides some of the less used menu options. ? 73….Eric VK2VE. ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of ROBERT WEED
Sent: Wednesday, 21 May 2025 04:33 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FT-857] problem with my FT857D ? Interesting solution: I uploaded the programming into RTSystems programmer and found errors in programming (“DCS” activated rather than “Tone” for example). I changed the programming? to the correct settings and downloaded it back into the radio and it works on the repeaters I tried including the ones that wouldn’t work at the event on Saturday. Why I couldn’t get it to work by manually programming, I don’t know! There may be a problem with the “A” button on the radio multifunction row D. OR it may just be operator error someplace in the setup! It could be that I should reset it to factory settings and start over since I have the RTS programming saved. If I can find how to do that. Thanks for the idea of disconnecting and reconnecting the cable, Ted. I will do that too! So obvious that I should have thought of it myself. Sort of like the old story “Did you plug it in” Bob-W7SCY ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ted via groups.io ? Try disconnecting and reconnecting both ends of the cable between the main body of the radio and the head multiple times, just in case there's a bit of oxidation present. Let us know if, and how, you get this issue resolved. Thanks! Ted KE4NBB |
开云体育Thanks Kent and Eric; Kent no near RF fields; parked completely out in the open with no power lines in sight.Eric:probably the best advice to save memories (already done) and reset the radio to factory settings. I think I’ll ultimately do that but first ?using RTSystems ?upload to correct any errors and download the results. So far that has worked! Thanks to others who have given me hints about the factory reset.Bob -W7SCY? Sent from Robert's iPad 2 On May 19, 2025, at 7:11?PM, Kent Trimble, K9ZTV via groups.io <k9ztv@...> wrote:
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