Did my transmitter get fried?

[saberthree]

I have an XTS4000, I let a friend borrow it. He kept it in his pocket and apparently bent the **** out of the antenna somehow. I'm not sure if it was transmitting in his pocket but it seems that if I key up the mic, my other radio will pick it up close by but if I key up the mic to known repeaters I've known works in the past, it seems to not hit the repeaters anymore. Is it safe to assume my preamp is screwed? It will still receive traffic though. My fault for letting people borrow my equipment, that's for sure.

 

[GTR8000]

Well let's start with the obvious question...did you replace the bent-as-**** antenna before testing it?

 

[saberthree]

Well let's start with the obvious question...did you replace the bent-as-**** antenna before testing it?

Yeah used one of my old ones

 

[GTR8000]

I'd say your buddy owes you a new radio, then.

 

[ElroyJetson]

Yeah, that sounds like he did something bad to the transmitter. An antenna tied in a knot would certainly do it.

Odds of finding someone to do component level repair on an XTS4000 are very low.

 

[saberthree]

Yeah, that sounds like he did something bad to the transmitter. An antenna tied in a knot would certainly do it.

Odds of finding someone to do component level repair on an XTS4000 are very low.

Yeah pretty much, it's a bummer

 

[saberthree]

I'd say your buddy owes you a new radio, then.

Yeah, I doubt he can afford it. My fault anyway for letting it happen

 

[saberthree]

Yeah, that sounds like he did something bad to the transmitter. An antenna tied in a knot would certainly do it.

Odds of finding someone to do component level repair on an XTS4000 are very low.

On a side note, I can still get my other radio to pick up the transmittion near by and can TMS a repeater. Maybe I'm just imagining things. Gonna take it to a radio shop in a few days and have them test it with an RSSI meter to confirm my suspicions

 

[NVAGVUP]

I would compare "apples to apples" reception with another radio. If the antenna were abused, it is possible he broke the internal antenna port connection. (Which would affect both tx and rx)

 

[saberthree]

I would compare "apples to apples" reception with another radio. If the antenna were abused, it is possible he broke the internal antenna port connection. (Which would affect both tx and rx)

The radio seems to be getting good reception still and I can still do TMS texting on the same repeaters. It just seems not to be able to hit the repeaters when I'm doing voice transmissions. I would assume there would be a fail code that pops up when I turn on the radio but I'm guessing not?

 

[davidgcet]

probably cracked the solder for the connector.

 

[saberthree]

I would compare "apples to apples" reception with another radio. If the antenna were abused, it is possible he broke the internal antenna port connection. (Which would affect both tx and rx)

I kinda doubt that, The reception is still perfect as far as I know. I can still transmit via TMS messages on repeaters far away on low power as well ( approximately 80 miles away on 1 watt) , so i dunno what is going on exactly, its rather strange. On the xts4000, the antenna is built a little differently compared to other radios, doesnt appear to be any visible damage, though Im afraid ill have to open up the radio and bust out the magnifying glass to see if any circuits got fried.

 

[saberthree]

probably cracked the solder for the connector.

yeah potentially, I can still do TMS on repeaters though

 

[saberthree]

well good news........I guess it was just one of those late night programing days. It turns out the transmitter is fine, Apparently on my personality I had set for HAM use, it was somehow set to transmit on astro mode and not on non-astro mode like I normally do. That was the reason why I couldn't catch any ham repeaters. I didn't catch it until I was doing talk around mode on the ham band doing testing on my other radio, while my working radio had a non-astro receive mode set, I noticed the "broken" radio was transmitting in digital mode which I found strange since its supposed to be set for analog. I wouldnt have normally caught it because I keep my radios on mixed mode receive.