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Re: Water Damaged - suggestions...
Michael Farley
Mike try to get your hand on some Freon TF (TRICHLOROTRIFLUOROETHANE) try a large electronics shop or maybe ask a ham working the government. The first think you should have done remove battery pack and place the radio down? on a hard surface in the sun and let it try? to dry it self out a couple of hours. While this is happen get a large empty coffee can 3 pound size minimum, fill three quarters of the way full with white rice, place the radio in the can and fill up the rest of the way with rice and wait a couple of day, then reinstall the battery and hope for the best! Caution you mileage may vary do this at own risk! If can get a hold of Freon TF pour a half cup on/in the radio. If the Freon FT in an a aerosol can use about three quarter of can on it. The rice acts as a Desiccant just like Silica Gel
Dehumidifies the radio. Use at your risk! AA6TT From: MJ To: FT-60@... Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 8:11 AM Subject: [FT-60] Water Damaged - suggestions...
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Purchased this model after getting my license a number of years ago. I remember reading (and the confirming) that this model was water resistant prior to taking along with me on a canoe trip with the scouts. During the trip we were sunk twice - completely submerging the canoe and my radio.
I noticed immediately that water was able to get in and cause some fogging to occur between the view window and the LCD. I didn't bother turning it on, figuring something else go wet inside. Now, a week later, the radio won't turn on. Looking for suggestions - is this something I could repair? Is there a shop you know of that could repair the damage cheaper than buying a new (hopefully water proof) model? Mike KI6NLC |
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Re: Water Damaged - suggestions...
Jack
So far as I know, the FT-60 was never advertised as water PROOF. ?Water resistant is a totally different thing. ?Submerging the radio requires water PROOF not water resistant.
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Jack, ae8p On Sep 18, 2011, at 11:11 AM, MJ wrote:
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Purchased this model after getting my license a number of years ago. I remember reading (and the confirming) that this model was water resistant prior to taking along with me on a canoe trip with the scouts. During the trip we were sunk twice - completely submerging the canoe and my radio. |
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Re: MH-37 A4B Ear piece/microphone
No experience w/ the unit discussed, but I did purchase a couple of the acoustic tube earpiece sets from ebay with a remote, lapel mount for the mic.? See ebay item # 160507398573.
Very inexpensive but I've used it for several ARES supported events.? FWIW, my net control folks said they couldn't tell the difference between it and the Yaesu speaker mic. MW / N4MEW |
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Re: MH-37 A4B Ear piece/microphone
no it sucks, at least when i was testing it talking to myself into another radio. i will get a friend of mine on a repeater this week and try it that way and get back to you. The audio was really light and the closer i spoke into it i could hear the air coming out of my mouth. ? Bill From: mayneerc
To: FT-60@... Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 12:17 AM Subject: [FT-60] MH-37 A4B Ear piece/microphone
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Has anybody used the Yaesu MH-37 A4B ear piece microphone?
Is the mike any good? Thank you. Bernard - VA7BLR |
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Re: Commander columns won't appear.
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI use ccleaner (piriform.com) to clean up my register and fix registry errors.? Free program, and it's quite good from what I've read.73, Nick, AA3T On 9/18/2011 6:41 PM, ve3thn@... wrote: ? |
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Re: Commander columns won't appear.
Nope. I had to uninstall, clean out the registry of its remnants and then reinstall to get it to work. It wouldn't display any data downloaded from the radio but would display data from a file but I couldn't turn the columns back on. The registry muck was required.
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Thanks for the reply. Wayne VE3THN --- In FT-60@..., Jardy <JARDY72@...> wrote:
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Re: DC External Power and Combined Battery Pack Usage
Dr. Dramatization
an empty double 'A' battery pack (or remove 1 battery)
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works well for this type of 12v operation peace, haans ) On Sep 18, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Stephen Meyer wrote: an external dc power source has worked well. But yes, take out the attached battery pack or you will have a problem. |
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Re: DC External Power and Combined Battery Pack Usage
I guess i dont understand why there would be any problem using?any alternative dc power source and leave the battery in the radio? All any ht want's at the ext dc port is whatever the dc voltage the manufacturer suggest's, and the center pin + or - ? I wired up 2 -? 2.9ah 12 volt sla batteries in parallel?and mounted them on the back of my bicycle with a y connector and power up, charge my Yaesu VX-7R and cell phone without any problems. ? Bill ? ? From: Stephen Meyer
To: FT-60@... Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [FT-60] Re: DC External Power and Combined Battery Pack Usage
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In my experience, an external dc power source has worked well. But yes, take out the attached battery pack or you will have a problem.
On Sep 18, 2011 12:16 PM, "LYLE M" <lylemains1@...> wrote:
> The way I understand it, and have been told, yes, you could use a 12 volt gell cell battery, but you definately want to take the battery pack out! Cause, like I said, I have been told, that the battery pack will get cooked! Correct me if I am wrong on this please! > > Lyle > k5lcm > > --- In FT-60@..., "Jim Quattlebaum W4QQI" <jimqbaum@...> wrote: >> >> OK, so I'm a bit confused. >> >> The manufacture list a dc power cord accessory to use with or without a cigarette lighter plug. So, then I would assume that you could transmit and receive using a 12 volt gell cell battery by using the aforementioned power cable with the factory battery pack installed? The manual is lacking on describing this operating mode. >> >> I am interested in using the radio for remote operations at 5 watt setting for the better part of a day or two. >> > > |
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Re: DC External Power and Combined Battery Pack Usage
Stephen Meyer
In my experience, an external dc power source has worked well. But yes, take out the attached battery pack or you will have a problem. On Sep 18, 2011 12:16 PM, "LYLE M" <lylemains1@...> wrote: > The way I understand it, and have been told, yes, you could use a 12 volt gell cell battery, but you definately want to take the battery pack out! Cause, like I said, I have been told, that the battery pack will get cooked! Correct me if I am wrong on this please! > > Lyle > k5lcm > > --- In FT-60@..., "Jim Quattlebaum W4QQI" wrote: >> >> OK, so I'm a bit confused. >> >> The manufacture list a dc power cord accessory to use with or without a cigarette lighter plug. So, then I would assume that you could transmit and receive using a 12 volt gell cell battery by using the aforementioned power cable with the factory battery pack installed? The manual is lacking on describing this operating mode. >> >> I am interested in using the radio for remote operations at 5 watt setting for the better part of a day or two. >> > > |
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Re: DC External Power and Combined Battery Pack Usage
The way I understand it, and have been told, yes, you could use a 12 volt gell cell battery, but you definately want to take the battery pack out! Cause, like I said, I have been told, that the battery pack will get cooked! Correct me if I am wrong on this please!
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Lyle k5lcm --- In FT-60@..., "Jim Quattlebaum W4QQI" <jimqbaum@...> wrote:
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FT-60 Commander not working on Seven x64
Roland Mayn??
Impossible to work with the FT60 Commander with the x64 version of Seven. You get first the error 13 in the popup and then the progrma show a empty grid. Impossible to select the buttons or other functions.
In a virtual machien as 'Xp mode' this is ok. The problem seems to come from the version of programming tools (VB6) not support the X64 Os as Seven. |
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Re: DC External Power and Combined Battery Pack Usage
MJ
My understanding is that this DC cord will allow you to charge the battery packs. There are 3rd party products which allow for this type of operation. Sadly, a quick google search didn't come up with the folks that I remembered could provide this. However, I am sure that if you keep looking around you'll find it.
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Re: Commander columns won't appear.
Do you have a scroll bar at the bottom of your screen? Jardy Dawson KE7FHH On Sep 15, 2011, at 21:02, ve3thn@... wrote:
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Water Damaged - suggestions...
MJ
Purchased this model after getting my license a number of years ago. I remember reading (and the confirming) that this model was water resistant prior to taking along with me on a canoe trip with the scouts. During the trip we were sunk twice - completely submerging the canoe and my radio.
I noticed immediately that water was able to get in and cause some fogging to occur between the view window and the LCD. I didn't bother turning it on, figuring something else go wet inside. Now, a week later, the radio won't turn on. Looking for suggestions - is this something I could repair? Is there a shop you know of that could repair the damage cheaper than buying a new (hopefully water proof) model? Mike KI6NLC |
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Re: Quick Question Please ?
You must read the new radio first, then you can change things. Jardy Dawson KE7FHH On Sep 18, 2011, at 1:34, "w2eec" <champine@...> wrote:
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Quick Question Please ?
Hi all.
I just ordered a FT-60R and I wanted to pre program the software with a import from my Commander export file for my VX-7R. I open up the FT-60 Commander software and I can only open up a new file. I can't edit anything or import anything. Some times I get a " Runtime error 13 Type mismatch" and then the program closes. I have tried to run it on Windows XP and Windows 7. Any help would be awesome. Seeing how it is a runtime error I would think it would have something to do with Java but I have Java installed] for both OSs. I also can't chick on any of the boxes and most of the drop down menus. I have never seen this before. Do I need to register or something? Thanks. 73 de W2EEC Eric |
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Re: Transmission Problems
I want to thank all of you who responded to my post. I learned a lot. It was an Echolink repeater and I was able to learn about that and also download the software to use that repeater.
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I will try the simplex method of transmitting as I haven't tried that. I belong to the South Jersey Radio Club and we have our next meeting in 2 weeks. I haven't done my first contact yet and am waiting to try it with a friend in my group at the meeting. Thanks for the links to the information on transmission, and programming. I bought the software for the ft-60 and downloaded Commander so I can see which is easier to program and have my settings so I don't have to worry about not having the right PL for the repeater. I just passed my General test last week and I am going to buy a new rig ( got my eye on a special one already!) to be able to use HF. This is all so exciting! I love my ft-60 and feel I couldn't have made a better choice of mobile. I also appreciate the information you all who responded gave me. I'm so attached to my radio I carry it everywhere with me!! 73 KD2ARF --- In FT-60@..., "kd2arf@..." <kd2arf@...> wrote:
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Radio Story: Hams Travel to South Sudan
Dave B
This was a segment on this weeks NPR program "On The Media" that you might find interesting.
You can listen online to the story at this website: Hams Travel to South Sudan When South Sudan became an independent nation this year, amateur radio enthusiasts (a.k.a. 'hams') were excited. For them, South Sudan was one more far-off place to communicate with. The only problem? Few people in South Sudan knew much about amateur radio. Bob spoke with ham operator Paul Ewing, who travelled to South Sudan to solve that problem. |
Wayne R.