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Over a year ago I posted about my Yeasu FT-8800 not working. Well as I said there it probably isn’t worth the cost of shipping it off for service if there is something major wrong. So I pulled out my trusty DVM and opened the case to poke around. Sure enough voltage was making it to the inline fuse, but not into the radio. I don’t know what I did but by just opening, poking around and closing the radio, it now works! Works so well, in less than 20 minutes my XYL was anoid at my HAM Radio hobby again.  Every silver lining has a cloud it seems.

Any way, I’m back on the air again. It seems like I might actually have time to get on the air this summer.

My Yaesu FT-8800 failed to power up the other day. All the fuses are good, from an external inspection there doesn’t seem to be any damage. I homebrewed my own separation cable so I am hoping that it has failed for some reason. Tonight I’m going to make up a new one and see if that works. Last night I was going to use the cable that came with the radio, but after five years it seems to have wandered off.

I hope I can get it working, it really is a good radio. Purchase prices have come down so much that it probably isn’t worth the cost of getting it fixed if the cable isn’t the problem.

Update:

Well the new cable didn’t solve the problem. So now I need to decide if I want to buy an new radio, and if so, which one.