Drake R8B Buttons?
The buttons on my Drake R8B haven't worked great
ever, but they've gotten almost nonfunctional now (after almost 20 years), and I need them twice a year to change between Daylight and Standard time. A push has no effect. It used to have no consistent effect but would eventually work. Any fix for this? Should I read up on serial control of the receiver? -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
Drake R8B Buttons?
Ron Hardin wrote:
The buttons on my Drake R8B haven't worked great ever, but they've gotten almost nonfunctional now (after almost 20 years), and I need them twice a year to change between Daylight and Standard time. A push has no effect. It used to have no consistent effect but would eventually work. Any fix for this? Should I read up on serial control of the receiver? I don't know about the Drake specifically, but I've had good results disassembling and cleaning contact switches in such things as other radios and remote controls. The switch contacts are usually traces on a circuit board and a carbon coated button completes the circuit. A q-tip and some isoproypol alcohol restores them to normal working order. However, sometimes they are just worn out. I wouldn't open up the Drake unless I had expirence doing other sorts of similiar repairs, though. |
Drake R8B Buttons?
USB to serial and Hyperterminal work okay, thanks
guys. It creates a new COMM port, which is unfortunately invisible to my linux-like Cygwin under XP. But hyperterminal gets the basic job done, turn on, set frequency, turn off, set time. So I can run the R8B with dead buttons. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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