It’s quite worrying and I’m also now beginning to find this whole instrument panel project rather draining. After yesterday’s problems I returned to Malbec and working on the assumption that Alphatec had provided me with incorrect information, switched the connections around in the main under-dash headset sockets in my Savannah, so mic cables became headphone cables and vice versa.<\/p>\n
And sure enough the radio then powered up as it should do, all of its buttons functioned normally and I could hear a small pop in the headphones when it finished booting. So it appears that Alphatec did provide me with incorrect information, raising the question of how much I would be able to trust them if I approached them asking for assistance with further problems. And further problems I do indeed have.<\/p>\n
The radio is still dumb. It shows the RCV sign when it receives a signal but the headphones are dead. It doesn’t transmit when a PTT button is pressed and the intercom doesn’t work, so as far as I know, the mics are also dead. I have checked the wiring diagram and I’m still convinced that I’ve wired the system up correctly, so as there still appears to be a headset problem I’m wondering if my Alphatec Pro headsets are compatible with the radio.<\/p>\n
In the set up menu, the radio detects the mics as being ‘dynamic’ but it still seems to think that there’s an external intercom, which of course, there isn’t, and I suspect that this anomaly is something to do with the mics themselves. I’m at the point when I don’t know what else I can physically do myself.<\/p>\n
And I also don’t have a friendly radio man who I can call up and talk to, so it’s difficult to know where to go from here. I think that I’ll try contacting the radio manufacturer, giving them all of my details and seeing if they can point me in the right direction.<\/p>\n
In the event that I don’t get help from there, I’ll have to locate a radio expert locally and get him to go through the installation. I’m worried if I do that, though, that I’ll end up ripping the whole panel back out again, with all that that entails, and you can imagine how I’d feel about that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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