Alinco radio problem

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I bought an ALinco DR 590 dual band amature radio at a hamfest. It is a

mobile. Got it home, hooked it up, everything on the display lit up. I
mean everything, even things that were not supposed to. The frequency
number has stange lines in it. It was not usable.

Figured out that I could reset it. (Pressing function button with power
button) and it would start working again like normal) If I left and
came back even with leaving the radio on it would go back to not
working.)

I replaced the battery and this still did not fix the problem.

Any ideas?

stryped@hotmail.com wrote:

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I bought an ALinco DR 590 dual band amature radio at a hamfest. It is a

mobile. Got it home, hooked it up, everything on the display lit up. I
mean everything, even things that were not supposed to. The frequency
number has stange lines in it. It was not usable.

Figured out that I could reset it. (Pressing function button with power
button) and it would start working again like normal) If I left and
came back even with leaving the radio on it would go back to not
working.)

I replaced the battery and this still did not fix the problem.

Any ideas?

Not sure but here's a link to the sevice manual directly from the
manufacturer. Found it on google.

http://www.alinco.com/pdf.files/Service/dr590ser.pdf

I'm thinking maybe power supply problem or somewhere in system
control/microprocessor.
Sorry can't help more but I've never worked on one of those.

Anytime you buy something worth a pretty penny at a hamfest, get the
seller's callsign and contact phone number. Don't know how many times I've
had to contact hamfest sellers after the sale about broken items that were
well advertised as "working perfectly". Many times you come across some
insane deals, but you'd be surprised how much lying and deception occurs at
hamfests especially with stuff that works, but has tons of little problems
you don't realize until after you get home.

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I bought an ALinco DR 590 dual band amature radio at a hamfest.

basfm6 wrote:

Anytime you buy something worth a pretty penny at a hamfest, get the
seller's callsign and contact phone number. Don't know how many times I've
had to contact hamfest sellers after the sale about broken items that were
well advertised as "working perfectly". Many times you come across some
insane deals, but you'd be surprised how much lying and deception occurs at
hamfests especially with stuff that works, but has tons of little problems
you don't realize until after you get home.

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I bought an ALinco DR 590 dual band amature radio at a hamfest.



I go to hamfests to buy clapped-out radios for parts.

To date I have not had one work worse than I expected.

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

In article <1133962039.740484.190950@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
<stryped@hotmail.com> wrote:

I bought an ALinco DR 590 dual band amature radio at a hamfest. It is a
mobile. Got it home, hooked it up, everything on the display lit up. I
mean everything, even things that were not supposed to. The frequency
number has stange lines in it. It was not usable.

You asked this same question, about what I assume is this same radio,
back in January of this year. There was a whole thread of discussion,
which lasted over a month.

The thread seems to have ended up with pretty much everybody
concluding that you'd have to send the radio back to the manufacturer
for repair, if you want it to work properly.

I think that's still your best choice. Asking the same questions over
and over again, and expecting people to be able to diagnose an
intermittent problem at a distance, seems unlikely to help matters.

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Dave Platt <dplatt@radagast.org> AE6EO
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boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

Yup, buy it at scrap price and if it works when you get it home, you
made out! What happened to the old days when hams would tell you this
and that didn't work? I suspect it was about the same time that radio
gear went to microproccesor control and things got to tiny for hams to
see, let alone WORK on it! There's not too many Heathkits that an
average ham couldn't fix, but nowadays it takes an engineer, a
technician, a magifying glass, a tweezers and a cold to work on anything
(the cold is so you can sneeze while unsoldering components and blow
them off the board and out of the radio. Just worked on my Yaesu 857
tonight to modify for full coverage transmit to use with my
transverters. They use jumpers that are about the size of a large piece
of pepper...

Scott
N0EDV

Tim Wescott wrote:

basfm6 wrote:

Anytime you buy something worth a pretty penny at a hamfest, get the
seller's callsign and contact phone number. Don't know how many times
I've had to contact hamfest sellers after the sale about broken items
that were well advertised as "working perfectly". Many times you come
across some insane deals, but you'd be surprised how much lying and
deception occurs at hamfests especially with stuff that works, but has
tons of little problems you don't realize until after you get home.

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I bought an ALinco DR 590 dual band amature radio at a hamfest.




I go to hamfests to buy clapped-out radios for parts.

To date I have not had one work worse than I expected.

"Scott" bravely wrote to "All" (08 Dec 05 01:30:02)
--- on the heady topic of "Re: Alinco radio problem"

Sc> From: Scott <acepilot@bloomer.net>
Sc> sci.electronics.repair:350685

Sc> (the cold is so you can sneeze while unsoldering components
Sc> and blow them off the board and out of the radio. Just worked on my
Sc> Yaesu 857 tonight to modify for full coverage transmit to use with my
Sc> transverters. They use jumpers that are about the size of a large
Sc> piece of pepper...

Considering your work technique, it might well be a piece of pepper!
Hehehe... ;-)

A*s*i*m*o*v

.... When I was your age, we carved transistors out of wood.