Kenwood TS-50

[muskokadj]

I have 2 kenwood ts-50 radios. the one will only put out about 10 watts max if that on all settings low med & high. not sure were to start to find the problem.
The other ts-50 evrything works fine, but when radio has been sitting for awhile when you turn it on the signal meter is at full scale then after maybe a min or 2 it slowly goes down then you can receive ok.

if anyone has any info on these to problems where to start to look were the problems are., iam not sure but i think both radios have not had caps updated

thanks, 73 VE3LTO

 

[Happy_Hamer]

I have 2 kenwood ts-50 radios. the one will only put out about 10 watts max if that on all settings low med & high. not sure were to start to find the problem.
The other ts-50 evrything works fine, but when radio has been sitting for awhile when you turn it on the signal meter is at full scale then after maybe a min or 2 it slowly goes down then you can receive ok.

if anyone has any info on these to problems where to start to look were the problems are., iam not sure but i think both radios have not had caps updated

thanks, 73 VE3LTO

Those radios are junk, send them to me, I'll make sure they are dealt with properly

 

[binrat]

Those radios are of the age to start have component failures.I can easily see a re-capping them and more.
1st sounds like there is a final issue, 2nd I'm not sure.

 

[nomadradio]

The Radio Shop YT channel showed the process of fixing similar issues. Boiled down to bad electrolytic caps and soldering faults on the main RF/IF board.

This is just one of them:






The surface-mount electroytics in this radio seem to be a particular breakdown problem.

A good radio when it works.

Still the only model I ever have seen that yells for help by beeping 'help' through the internal speaker. Turns out this means the backup battery has died.

73