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September 14th 03, 02:07 PM

wrote in message . ..
Thanks for the quick reply.
Forgot to mention in my first post that the first thing I did was
replace the old AA cells. No joy.

Thanks.
Joe

If the radio was stored with the batteries installed, you may have
corrosion on the battery terminals; very common problem. Remove all
the batteries and clean the terminals; careful scraping can remove
most of the corrosion, then touch them up with a pencil eraser (yes,
it works!), then re-install the batteries and try again. By the time
you clean things up, the radio should have performed a "reset", so it
should be good to go. If it still doesn't work, there's a much more
serious problem inside, so take it to your local RS store and send it
in for service.

G'luck!