You have a bad connection on your coax or antenna or something. My mag mount Wilson 5000 would do the same thing when the coil broke. When the receive was low I could hit the mic key real quick and make it come back sometimes.
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Sr955 runs off 10g to battery. Amp runs of 8g to battery. That 8g also has the anderson quick disconnect by the amp. So just picture this, when i did the radio swap, the rci 63 plugged into the amp wire not the sr955 wire and still experienced same problem. 2 separate power cords same issue. Something around the battery area had to cause this but idk what? Obviously me taking both power wires off batteries then back on resetted them, but what exactly got reset? Power wires only have fuses, no relays.
Not familiar with what controls your receiver might have, but if you have an AVC or AGC control, turn it off if possible. If all you have available is "slow" and "fast", use fast. I just quickly scanned to see what the problem was, and it sure sounds like an AGC-related one.
What type of battery are you using? I just remembered a similar situation in which the person was using a "Deep Cycle" battery. The different batteries have different characteristics. Deep cycle batteries will put out a limited supply the amount of current to amount of amps for a long period of time, but they cannot supply the surge to start an engine.
the radio just needed a full power down reboot.
I wondering since you mention a reboot, if i did a reset that this may fix the problem.
If you don’t mind, explain what those features are/do please. But to my knowledge I haven’t seen any of those abbreviations
I have. I narrowed it down to either rf interference thru antenna or power wires. Its like there’s a relay getting stuck somewheres.
Yea and trying to find that circuit will be damn near impossible. Ugh i hate my life right now.
I don't know if this will help but it is an experience I had with a brand new Icom 7100.
I bought for a bargain basement price and all the dealer told is it will cut out.
I got the radio hooked it up and started testing. I measured the power supply and it was set 13.9 Vdc. I keyed it up into a test load and it shut down almost immediately.
The only thing that I could see is the the wire feeding.the radio looked a bit small.
I hooked my DVM up to the wires right at the radio and the voltage dropped below 10.8 Vdc. That is where the radio shut down was set to protect the radio. I replaced all of the wire and reheaded the cable. I used heavier gauge wire and soldered the connectors and the wires for the fuses to the spade lugs. A couple of hours of soldering wire stripping and the radio was fixed. If you have a meter check the connector right on the back of the radio and see what your voltage does when you key up.
AVC - Automatic Volume Control
AGC - Automatic Gain Control
Slightly different names for the very same thing
"Slow" and "Fast" just mean whether it takes a second or two to start functioning (Fast) or longer than that (Slow).
The operating manual for the radio should contain this information.
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