Astro Saber III NO RX

[ke5kze]

Got a question, astro saber III, was working fine, no problems at all, tx fine, wont rx right away and now it won't rx at all anytime, everything on the rss looks good, it wasnt takin apart or anything, and it wasnt hooked up to the rss or anything when this happend, the squelch botton works but still no rx and no rx light either, what do you think it could be?

 

[RKG]

Just a guess: Sabers have a slot for an encryption module, which goes electrically between the product discriminator and the audio amp. Where no module is used, a "bypass plug" has to be inserted to complete the audio path.

If your radio was surplused from an agency that used encryption, and if prior to disposal they simply removed the encryption modules, you get what you report.

 

[gtaman]

It wouldn't be the module. Astro sabers use the same encryption board/card as an astro spectra and enabling/disabling them wouldn't affect how it passes through the radio. Are you having issues with receiving analog or digital? Also you can program a channel as CSQ and see if the radio receives just for a test.

 

[ke5kze]

no rx

It will not rx in digital or analog, it wont rx the weather band anymore even, i put another radio beside it and it wont hear it even, no rx light anymore, it does still tx in digital and analog though,the squelch will open.up where i can hear static but no signal from the other radio with it open even, it was working great and it just did this one day and it hasnt rx'ed sence then at all

 

[gtaman]

It will not rx in digital or analog, it wont rx the weather band anymore even, i put another radio beside it and it wont hear it even, no rx light anymore, it does still tx in digital and analog though,the squelch will open.up where i can hear static but no signal from the other radio with it open even, it was working great and it just did this one day and it hasnt rx'ed sence then at all

What type of antenna did you have on it? Also the radio may have been off frequency or out of tune a little bit. And now it could have completely drifted off frequency. If you have access to a service monitor I would check the tuning.

 

[ke5kze]

Rx

Thats one thing i dont have anymore, i have a buddy who has one still ill prolly use his. It TX dead on freq. Just no RX and everyonce in while the squelch will open up to a lot of static and some really low beeping spunds

 

[ke5kze]

Its a motorola oem antenna, i tryed an after market one off my astro saber II,made no difference

 

[gtaman]

Put the radio in test mode and see if it can receive another radio in test mode.