TK-8180 Voice not working

Baldparamedic · #1 (**permalink**) 02-18-2013, 5:21 PM

I have a TK-8180. Long story short, some stuff got crammed around in the truck, snagged the wires, and hot and ground wires touched for a while. melted wires up, caught it fairly quick and disconnected. Since then, the voice will not come over the speaker, or an external speaker hooked up. It'll transmit, receive, the speaker is working because you can hear the beeps with channel and volume change, everything works just can't hear anything. I'm afraid something is burnt up, any ideas or direction? really can't afford the radio shop expensive fee to fix it especially if it's something i CAN do. Thanks and please help!

NoFear2005 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-18-2013, 8:40 PM

E mail me at k4svt@.me.com thanks!

Baldparamedic · #3 (**permalink**) 02-28-2013, 5:33 PM

Anyone else can help? I'm not mailing my radio to someone to fix....sorry. No way I could trust that.

MTS2000des · #4 (**permalink**) 03-01-2013, 1:44 PM

without seeing the radio on a bench it is impossible to tell what component was damaged by the short circuit.

when you say "beeps" I assume you mean the radio sidetones?