We had our local 2M net last night. Usually I use my IC-7100 for it but I was not getting any transmitted audio from it, I suspect due to settings from FT-8 use so I decided to use the AnyTone D578UVIII instead, it has always worked fine before.
Lo and behold, no audio from this radio as well! What are the odds of two different brand/model radios suddenly losing TX audio at the same time?
I eventually figured out the issue on the Icom but now I needed to diddle with the AT. I swapped out the mic with the one from the car radio, no dice. Both mics worked fine on the car radio, neither on the base radio.
I couldn't find any menu setting that could have caused it. So I did the total reset and restore process. I erased the radio, tested it and it worked fine. I restored my last codeplug from about a month ago and it was working just fine.
I suspect this was related to another minor annoyance I had with this radio before the audio crapped out. There was a little beep going out as I unkeyed the mic. If I was listening on another radio I would hear it, and several guys mentioned it to me on nets etc. I don't think it was any sort of "Roger Beep", there was no menu item for it in the radio or the CPS. If there was I would have turned it off. The car radio did not do this but that is a slightly newer radio. After the reset that beep went away.
I do like the 578 as well as the 878 portables but I need to remember that they are still CCR's and are prone to weirdities like this. AT has become extremely popular, at least around here. They have a much better reputation than Baofeng etc. but one still has to remember their heritage.
Lo and behold, no audio from this radio as well! What are the odds of two different brand/model radios suddenly losing TX audio at the same time?
I eventually figured out the issue on the Icom but now I needed to diddle with the AT. I swapped out the mic with the one from the car radio, no dice. Both mics worked fine on the car radio, neither on the base radio.
I couldn't find any menu setting that could have caused it. So I did the total reset and restore process. I erased the radio, tested it and it worked fine. I restored my last codeplug from about a month ago and it was working just fine.
I suspect this was related to another minor annoyance I had with this radio before the audio crapped out. There was a little beep going out as I unkeyed the mic. If I was listening on another radio I would hear it, and several guys mentioned it to me on nets etc. I don't think it was any sort of "Roger Beep", there was no menu item for it in the radio or the CPS. If there was I would have turned it off. The car radio did not do this but that is a slightly newer radio. After the reset that beep went away.
I do like the 578 as well as the 878 portables but I need to remember that they are still CCR's and are prone to weirdities like this. AT has become extremely popular, at least around here. They have a much better reputation than Baofeng etc. but one still has to remember their heritage.
