semerson
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I have a 64 Cherokee 235 with a Bendix King KY 97A installed in COM 1. The last two flights that I have done, it appears that my radio needs a "warm up" period to start transmitting clearly.
While on the ground just after start up, I taxi away from hangars and, with clear line of sight to the tower, when I transmit, the signal is "staticky and barely understandable and scratchy". It was so bad this second flight, that I had to use my backup handheld Icom radio to transmit to get taxi clearance. About 15 minutes later after run up and waiting for landing traffic, I finally departed and once airborne, tested my transmit ability via COM1 and was suddenly crystal clear to the tower. I then checked again with another airport's tower and again crystal clear.
When I arrived back at my home field, I was still able to transmit normally and clearly even on the ground. It almost seems that my radio needs to "warm up" to be able to transmit clearly. Has anyone seen or head of this phenomena before or experienced something similar?
My setup is this: BK 97a radio in COM 1, my "audio panel" is nothing more than 3 position rocker switches to select headphones/off/speaker for each source, and a sigtronics transcom intercom unit permanently attached to the panel. The intercom unit is not battery operated but connected to the power bus of the a/c. My COM2 is an MX11 and has recently crapped the bed and no longer turns on for reasons unknown. I have checked all fuses for both COM units and they are fine. I am at a loss as to what causes this. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
While on the ground just after start up, I taxi away from hangars and, with clear line of sight to the tower, when I transmit, the signal is "staticky and barely understandable and scratchy". It was so bad this second flight, that I had to use my backup handheld Icom radio to transmit to get taxi clearance. About 15 minutes later after run up and waiting for landing traffic, I finally departed and once airborne, tested my transmit ability via COM1 and was suddenly crystal clear to the tower. I then checked again with another airport's tower and again crystal clear.
When I arrived back at my home field, I was still able to transmit normally and clearly even on the ground. It almost seems that my radio needs to "warm up" to be able to transmit clearly. Has anyone seen or head of this phenomena before or experienced something similar?
My setup is this: BK 97a radio in COM 1, my "audio panel" is nothing more than 3 position rocker switches to select headphones/off/speaker for each source, and a sigtronics transcom intercom unit permanently attached to the panel. The intercom unit is not battery operated but connected to the power bus of the a/c. My COM2 is an MX11 and has recently crapped the bed and no longer turns on for reasons unknown. I have checked all fuses for both COM units and they are fine. I am at a loss as to what causes this. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
