running dogg wrote:

My Yaesu FRG-8800 has been acting strangely. Tonight while listening to
the BBC on 5975 I had blasts of static interrupt the broadcast. Finally
around 0310 the broadcast became inaudible. This is a problem with my
radio, since ALL stations all across the spectrum are now inaudible. I
tuned up to 6050 khz as well as checked WWV on 5 Mhz and everything has
gone deaf. I suspect that my troubles with listening to Cuba are related
to the same problem. A week ago I had a brief problem where a very
staticky Radio Australia swamped the spectrum. What could possibly be
wrong with my radio? How can I contact Yaesu? I had their contact info
years ago when I had to send my radio in for repairs twice, but I lost
it.


I turned off the computer. I was listening to BBC English on 5975 when,
ten minutes into the broadcast, loud popping noises started going off
rapidly causing abrupt changes in signal level, like I reported before.
I immediately switched over to the Degen, and I had no further problems
for 20 minutes until I turned the radio off. The fact that I experienced
the problems ONLY with the Yaesu and not with the Degen rules out BPL or
some other external RFI source as the problem. I opened up the Yaesu and
cleaned it with compressed air since there was some dust inside, but I
still had the problem. It IS the Yaesu that is causing the problem, not
the computer or the ethernet connection or BPL or some other external
source. I did not experience these problems while tuning through the
15Mhz band earlier today. It appears that once the Yaesu heats up that
some connection fails. It appears that continued listening on one
frequency for about 10 minutes causes this heating up and failing. Any
ideas?