On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:22:49 +0000 (UTC), (Mike
Andrews) wrote:

Dick LeadWinger wrote:
I noticed tonight that my Kenwood TM-732A has suddenly developed some
garbage in the display over about 25% of it. Looks like fern leaves
or something like that. The normal display items are still there.
The garbage is in the background, but makes the display very hard to
read. Am I looking at a new display? The radio does run 24/7
monitoring our ARES repeater. Maybe it just finally did it in.

It's an LCD, right? Sounds like it has developed a leak, and air is
getting into the liquid crystal layer. If that is the case, then it
is indeed new-display time.

Yes, it is an LCD display. The garbage appears as soon as power is
applied, and before the actual display appears. I was hoping maybe it
was a display driver that was going, but I agree it looks more like
the LCD itself. I never heard of the leaking problem. That's
something new to me.

Dick