[Yaesu] FT-890AT Blinking Display

[Lee Ward]

I had a very similiar problem with my FT-1000.  Started as a intermittent
thing and got worse.  I shipped it back to Yeasu twice without having
the problem corrected.  Finally I asked them to send me a new control
board which I installed myself and fixed the problem.  That was five
years ago and it still works fine...

Lee N5PO  ex W5UDA

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 00:16:40 -1000 "John D. Martin" <daryl@hawaiian.net>
writes:
>
>Aloha, thanks in advance for reading this.  I have an FT-890AT with 
>an
>interesting intermittent problem.  The entire display will blink off 
>and
>on sometimes just once, other times three or four times then it 
>returns
>to normal.  When this happens the needle in the meter will drop and 
>the
>audio goes mute, when the display comes back on, the needle jumps 
>back
>up and audio returns.  The meter lamp as well as all the other lamps 
>on
>the radio stay on the whole time and don't even flicker.  Another 
>thing
>I noticed is that if the antenna tuner is turned on the green 
>indicator
>light goes off and the turner is also turned off when the display 
>starts
>to blink.  After the display stops blinking and rig appears to be
>working normally again, the automatic antenna turner does not come 
>back
>on when the tuner button is pushed.  Only way to get it to come back 
>on
>is to off the radio off and turn it back on again and the tuner will
>come back on again when the button is pushed.  This problem has been
>totally random, radio will go for days without it happening and
>sometimes several times in one day.  Sometimes it happens after being 
>on
>for hours or will happen the first time I turn it on for the day.
>
>Anyone have this problem before or heard about it?  Any ideas?  
>Thanks
>again for reading this and any help or ideas you may have.  You can
>reply to the reflector or to me at daryl@hawaiian.net.
>
>73 and Aloha,
>John, WH6EY
>
>
>
>
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