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D@LS / wrote:

Transmits fine, all of a sudden all I receive is static, even on local
commercial AM stations?

Squelch is Full open = Coax is hooked up

Antenna is A3S/A743 Cushcraft Beam = 10-15-20-40 meters.

I aught to hear something other than static.

Could perhaps be any of a number of things, from a blown receiver
front-end (lightning or electrostatic damage?), a loose
connection, defective or loose IF filter, or any of a number of
mis-adjustments in the control setting.

The first thing I'd try, with that radio, is a microprocessor reset of
the "Reset everything but the memory channels" variety. Turn the
radio power off, hold down A/B, turn the power on, wait a few seconds,
release A/B. This should reset the radio to its default operating
modes... if you'd accidentally switched some weird setting into some
oddball mode, this should reset it.

If you're still stuck in a "Can transmit but cannot receive" mode,
it'd then probably be time for some signal-tracing inside the radio.


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