This radio has been repaired by HamRepair.com and is working great!...Thanks o the technician in Texas I couldn't have asked for a better job!...He even changed by my request to have the display changed from amber to blue like the Yaesu FT-847...Great job!...You can see a pic of the TS-2000 on my QRZ page. Scroll down about half way. Again thanks to HamRepair.com!
@susanuciprian90654 жыл бұрын
I posted your video on facebook ts 2000 and a guy just commented this: I testet this right now. HF on a FD-4 100 watts and UHF on a Diamind X200 portable jnust on a cable. When the X200 is portable around in distance closer than 6 meters, I have the same thing un UHF. Puting the X200 more far away, then everything works fine!
@markwarren71164 жыл бұрын
Well like I posted to Marty I even completely disconnected the 2 meter antenna and still does it. And I also mentioned that I took it to another friends house that doesn't even have a 2 meter antenna, so this is very strange.
@susanuciprian90654 жыл бұрын
Mark Warren duno man:((
@luzhusband4 жыл бұрын
Put the main side on a dummy load when it does it, I suspect RF getting into the sub receiver from the main antenna. Try a different frequency or band on the main VFO to see if it does it on any band other than 40 meters. How close is your 40m antenna to your 2 meter antenna? Is your SWR ok on the 40 meter antenna without the tuner? Just a few things to check.
@markwarren71164 жыл бұрын
Yes we tried all the other bands, My 2 meter antenna is 45 feet from the 40 meter antenna. The main VFO bled into the sub band even with the 2 meter antenna disconnected. All my antennas are resonant so I have no SWR. I don't use an antenna tuner on 40, 80, 20 and 10. And also the main VFO still gets into the sub VFO even with a dummy load. So I have tried all these options...I have taken this to 2 or three technicians like I explained in the bio section and they can't duplicate the problem...But when I take it to another Ham's house the problem is there. I bought this radio in Dec. of 2014 and worked great up until 2016. Been having this problem ever since....Very strange.
@markwarren71164 жыл бұрын
Here is an update....I took the 2 meter antenna down and completely disconnected it and laid it in the carport and still get the problem....But I do make a note...This does NOT happen when the sub VFO is on UHF 440.
@andrewfoster1316 Жыл бұрын
sounds like your getting rf from foot switch if you take it to a shop for repair you proberly take the hand mic.
@markwarren7116 Жыл бұрын
Hello Andrew...I don't use this radio for HF anymore. I have it dedicated it to VHF and crossband repeat and sky command. It wasn't the foot switch at all. We found out that the UHF connector had a cold solder joint and I never had the problem again. But like I said, I have dedicated this to VHF. Thanks for stopping by.
@andrewfoster1316 Жыл бұрын
@@markwarren7116 so that solved that issue. alot of radio for vhf ha ha have a good day cheers and thanx for reply 2e0-rju
@markwarren7116 Жыл бұрын
@@andrewfoster1316....Well I have 4 other radios so I really don't need to have this functioning 100%....But I am gonna send it off later on in the future so I can have everything working. I am doing projects on my house so my play toys have to be put on hold for a while....Thanks for stopping by!
@martygibson86564 жыл бұрын
By chance were any of the rf coax leads internally removed and possibly placed in wrong order. Has anything been disconnected and reinstalled under the covers. Even re routing the coax rf leads inside differently may stop any oscillations. Tell us more about the past with this rig. Would the techs have put something back wrong. Surely they could have duplicated that issue. Its a no brainer to duplicate , unless its your antennas! Water in coax , bad joints at connectors (so239). More info my friend.
@markwarren71164 жыл бұрын
No they are correct Marty...I looked again and again. I also completely disconnected the 2 meter antenna and still get the bleeding into the sub VFO.
@susanuciprian90654 жыл бұрын
Check insidefor small sponges with some kind of metalic coating over, near the coax plugs inside the station, those needs to be in place if one of those are out of the position that issue you have can apear, even auto oxcilations also
@markwarren71164 жыл бұрын
Yes they are in place.
@ERICtheLATE3 жыл бұрын
You did not change tx frequency on hf tuned vfo. All ~5 radios in 1 will have specific birdies on harmonics of if or preamp circuits and cannot be fixed. You did not go over your antenna arrangement or what type of radiators because some antenna tuners, loading coils, match coils, traps, baluns, ununs, ect., for any band, can blast out harmonics. That would be awful to get a new radio and have issues on a favorite frequency though. I hope you figure it out.
@ny1t4 жыл бұрын
FYI:Having a good SWR doesn't mean it is resonant. The important symptom is that the condition of the radio changed in 2016. This should indicate something inside the radio changed or you did something. I have to think about lightning as a possibility. I am not putting much concern into your antenna since antennas at other shacks acted similarly. Sometimes people overlook changes they made. Did you add a TNC or other device. Adding a TNC to the TS-850 caused the TX audio to go bad. Unplug the TNC and the audio was good. That you can duplicate the problem but "technicians" can't is also important. What is different? Is the tech testing only on a dummy load? One thing we don't have information on that is outside the radio is if you are using a duplexer. If you are, I assume you would take that with you other ham shacks, but maybe the techs test without it. MFJ equipment is notorious for bad solder connections those will fail over time. One MFJ device I had became intermittent especially if I wiggled the antenna connection. There was NO solder on the antenna connection. Over time it corroded. I soldered it properly and the problem went away. If the problem is in the radio, the radio is old and you should check for bad electrolyte capacitors. The top of the capacitors should be perfectly flat and clean. If the electrolyte leaks you may see what looks like a light tan color water spots/rings on top of the capacitor or on the board. This electrolyte is corrosive to the runs on the board. If you find any clean it off and of course replace the caps. I have seen capacitor kits online where someone has gone through the trouble of kitting all the capacitors for you. Another thing would be to look at filters. The internet has a bit of information of failing filters in the TS2000. Filters are meant to prevent these issues. Another, I would look at the purity of the RF being transmitted. If the RF is dirty, it will cause havoc. I also would consider a full factory reset. A glitch or or even an operator changing something in the menus.
@markwarren71164 жыл бұрын
Well my SWR is 1.0 and I get 100 watts out so its pretty well resonant. But I do agree that a good SWR doesn't mean always resonant. No I didn't add anything to the TNC or anything else, nothing has changed in that respect. And this problem started about a year and a half after I bought it. I sent it to K3TEN electronics that "formerly" advertised in QST and he was specialized in all Kenwood radios and was very familiar with the TS-2000. But unfortunately he decided to go out of business after I got my radio back from him. He used my radio for 3 months and couldn't duplicate the problem. He said he looked at all the caps and every part for leaking caps and bad solder joints etc etc etc and found nothing. I have seen the cap kits and asked about then to K3TEN and he said I didn't need them because my radio was like from the factory and perfect inside. And I did see the videos about the ceramic filters in these TS-2000's being replaced and go bad in this radio. So far all the technicians have said everything was good. Another technician said it could or might be a bad pin diode but when he checked it out everything was good. I have done a factory reset 2 times and still have the problem. And after I did the factory reset I put the main VFO on 40 then 20 and then 15 meters and the sub VFO on 2 meters and then left the 2 meter antenna off and the main VFO still bled into the sub VFO. ...I really appreciate the feedback from you and hopefully I can figure this out. I have nothing myself to do any work on radios so I have to send it out to have it fixed...Thanks for replying.
@ny1t4 жыл бұрын
Focus a bit on why the techs CND. It may lead to the cause. A tech will generally use a dummyload. Maybe he used lower power to an antenna. Maybe he set the squelch higher (though you had a lot of signal strength on the VHF meter) When you say you have 1:1, I don't know your setup so have to be sure the SWR increases as you go off the center frequency. A dummy load has a flat 1:1 across the band yet it doesn't radiate. An antenna has a bandwidth and will increase SWR off center. Gain tend to be inversely proportional to band width. A good SWR out of resonance antenna can create RF in your cable. What are your antenna, mounts and cable configuration? Are you running a duplexer or do you have separate UHF and VHF antenna? Do you have HF and VHF antennas on your car? I also haven't mentioned you power supply. Test it on a fully charged battery. with no power supply. Try ferrite a bead on the power cord. A choke on the antenna cables. Sorry, but without seeing it first hand, there are many questions and suggestions. I don't know what you did and didn't take to the other ham's shack. I helped a guy on the phone the other day. He had a lightning strike on the boat. I troubleshot it to the installer leaving a cable to the autotuner disconnected.
@markwarren71163 жыл бұрын
@@ny1t ....I haven't posted on this for a long times so sorry if I haven't answered for a long time... I tested with a separate antenna on the UHF / VHF sides of the antenna and also used a different antenna on the HF side and still have the problem. I did use a car battery to see if it was anything in the house that might cause anything and still have the issue. When I took it to the 2 friends houses I took exactly the same equipment, cables etc etc. Well maybe one day I will figure it out and send it to a technician that might get it right or figure out what's going on. As of right now I just use it for VHF and UHF and cross banding since I have 2 other HF radios. Also money is all going to fixing the house now. I thank everyone who is trying to help and its well appreciated....73's...K4XJ
@ERICtheLATE3 жыл бұрын
Easy, bud...why must this fellow have to do basics of a technician's job...?
@ERICtheLATE3 жыл бұрын
If you get the time, change the mode of the second vfo to ssb/cw. FM is more ic based, where those are more tuned circuit mixed. Also, that is prolly a repeater freq, on sub vfo, so that vfo is double split for offset, and sensing pl tone, so it may be overwhelmed from the get go. I hope ya fix it or get a $60 Leixen dual bander, that can keep all the repetaer biz in a separate unit, and save the big rig for 144.2 or 146.52 work.