2055 & Cold ?

[bwhite]

In the last few days the cold (20 or so degrees overnight) has set in to my area, all the sudden my 2055 doesn't want to scan; it seems to work fine in the afternoon when the sun has been on it.
The problem, it will appear to sit on one of the several banks it should scan but it receives nothing.
I can force it from bank to bank by locking banks out.
When I switch to weather I can hear static but no modulation on any of the many Wx stations I should be able to receive.
I'm gonna hate to send this in for repair as I doubt they would have the ability to freeze the thing and then test it.
Has anyone else experienced this ?
I had it on a radio many years ago, I was hoping to not run into it again.

 

[hoser147]

Have you tried to leave the scanner on over nite? I had one that was cold blooded or had a cold solder joint that acted the same way, If I left it on it was fine. Hoser

 

[bwhite]

Hmmm, I'll have to ponder how I can do that, it is in the car and the cig lighter shuts off.
I'll have to see if the alternate lighter stays on. Thanx

 

[Flatshovel]

Not sure if you have enough cord or not, but you may want to consider running the power cable straight to the battery. Doing it this way will prevent the other sources from shutting off on you. Just a thought. If you do go straight to the battery be sure to fuse both the hot and ground wires.

Take care,
Joseph

 

[bwhite]

I'll try relocating to the alternate 12v source first.
Even before that I have to get the sun to convince the thing to run again, once
it does then I'll try to keep it on (hopefully things will warm up today).
I have gotten the car pretty darn warm with the heater but no luck.
I'll keep y'all informed.
Thanx

 

[hoser147]

You may be able to ty into a constant hot on the fuseblock, but I would do like flatshovel stated and run it to the battery. Many of the spare power sources stay hot so you may get lucky when exploring that route. Good Luck Hoser

 

[bwhite]

Well, after a few days of the 2055 "waking up" when the sun beat on it not so yesterday.
Took it in the house, same thing even after a few hours of warming up.
It just kept doing odd things as I wanted it to scan.
I started to do a master reset, never got all the way through it.
I held the 0 down as I started it up.
At this point, and it's still early in the 2nd half, it is acting as it should.
I'm not sure why 1/2 a reset would help, I think I was supposed to press 1 at some
point after pressing 0.

 

[bwhite]

Update:
The RS fix facility has been able to repeatedly see where a master reset makes the unit work briefly and then ka-put (good, I hate intermittent problems).
They are installing a new logic board, says he hasn't seen this before (lucky me).
I did refer to Wiki's info on this unit, it mentions that rebanding may work with a newer board, I asked for that board if there was such a thing, he said there was not but he did not say it would not reband (I dunno enough about rebanding to discuss it further and don't want to until I have to, seems wierd that nearly the whole country has to change instead of Nextel who will probably be outta business in a few years anyway).
Also, apparently there is a recent price reduction in these boards so my repair bill is about $80.
Funny, I bought it for $60.
I hope everyone got some nice toys for Christmas, I'll just be glad to have this one back.

 

[zzdiesel]

You'll be glad to get it back. It's a fairly good radio. I have one but it doesn't have near the good VHF reception that my Uniden BCT15 has.

 

[bwhite]

I'm pretty much exclusively 800 on this one.
My only complaints are that the multi-function keys are far from intuitive
and
the key sequence to "park" on a specific TG (from a scanning mode when the TG
is not currently in the display) is wierd.
Overall, fine for the car.