WS1025: No audio out of the box

[chrisn1niq]

My WS1025 has no audio. The speaker pops slightly when I power it on, but that's it. The screen works. I can see the signal bar is active when I adjust the squelch, and it scans through frequencies.

I called Whistler, but the message says to email as they are moving facilities. I did that and got no response.

Is this a known issue that can be fixed? I'm not thrilled about having to ship it back.

 

[fxdscon]

Is this a known issue that can be fixed? I'm not thrilled about having to ship it back.

Try some headphones in the rear headphone jack and see if audio comes through the headphones.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Any audio when you tune to your nearest NOAA weather frequency or no?

 

[tvengr]

When you say out of the box, is it brand new? Are you using programming software?

 

[chrisn1niq]

Try some headphones in the rear headphone jack and see if audio comes through the headphones.

I did. I tried again a few times and was able to get audio temporarily. It doesn't seem like something I can fix.

 

[tvengr]

Did the audio drop out when listening on headphones?

 

[chrisn1niq]

Did the audio drop out when listening on headphones?

It was more of a game of plugging and unplugging headphones to get sound. I'm guessing some sort of grounding issue.

 

[tvengr]

There are contacts that break the speaker connection when plugging in headphones. If you have contact spray, try spraying it into the headphone jack and then plug and unplug headphones numerous times. It may be dirty contacts on the headphone jack. If that doesn't do it, the contacts may need adjusting.