Codan 9350 Autotune Issue

Submitted: Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 18:21

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Member - RFLundgren (WA)

Hi there,

A question for anyone who has the above antenna.Mine has been working perfectly until our trip this past week. Whenever I trued to tune my antenna it beeped at me with a failed message on the screen. Once driving for a while it seemed to tune ok without any problems.

It indicated to me a power issue, but the question is why all of a sudden. Nothing in the truck has changed. Same battery, same fridge, same radio, same wiring, but suddenly these problems.

if anyone has any suggestions as to where to start to look to resolve this it would be most appreciated.

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Richard

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Reply By: blue one - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 18:28

Reply By: jdwynn (Adelaide) - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 18:38

Reply By: Member - John (Vic) - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 18:41

Reply By: Member - Footloose - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 21:09

Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 21:09

All is not well with either your installation (earths) or your aerial.
Earths are relatively easy to check.
If it's not earths then check out this link, Simple 9350 service

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Follow Up By: Member - John (Vic) - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 22:12

Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 22:12

There you are, where ya been Footy???

This blokes been sweating on your advice :-)

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Follow Up By: Member - Footloose - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 22:24

Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 22:24

Hi John. Where've I been ? I'm not sure, last time I looked at the puter clock it was 8.30 and now it's 10.20!

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Follow Up By: Member - RFLundgren (WA) - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 22:48

Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 22:48

Footy

All was going well until this last trip. I did find on the way home from work today that if I turned the fridge off the antenna did seem to tune more readily than if the fridge was running. I did also notice that my fridge was not cold this afternoon either, and even though it was empty it still shouild have had some coldness in it. It did however work well on the trip, swo I am still thinking something to do with power?

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Follow Up By: Member - Footloose - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 22:55

Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 22:55

Richard...ahhhh...yes power. Your battery sounds like it's on the way out.

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Follow Up By: Member - John (Vic) - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 22:55

Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 22:55

Battery stuffed Richard???
Have you tested it to ensure its ok?

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Follow Up By: Member - RFLundgren (WA) - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 23:03

Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 23:03

Battery should be more than fine. Almost a new (< 6 months old) Full River 90AH AGM. Maybe it doesnt like being under the bonnet. When I get the chance I will pop back to where I purchased it from and have them do some investigation on it for me. May have to go back to a standard wet cell battery under the bonnet that will stand the heat better me thinks.......

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Follow Up By: Member - Footloose - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 23:17

Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 23:17

Does the NGT menu have an option for displaying the battery voltage, similar to the 9323? If so, check it on transmit. I'm betting that you'll get around 11.4 volts.
Yep, get them batteries checked.

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Follow Up By: Member - RFLundgren (WA) - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 23:21

Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 23:21

Footy

Yeah it can show the voltage, although I dont know about on transmit. Pressing button 1 to bring up the tune screen also shows the current Voltage. On driving it is sitting around 13.7 - 13.9 which is to be expected. When I got home tonight after about 60 minutes in the car, let the car sit for a while after turning off and voltage was reading 12.5

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Follow Up By: Member - Footloose - Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 23:33

Monday, Apr 28, 2008 at 23:33

See if it drops on transmit...I'm betting that it will drop considerably.

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Follow Up By: Member - RFLundgren (WA) - Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 17:58

Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 17:58

Hey Footy

Cant see the voltage screen on transmit. If I leave it on that screen it just wants to tune again.

As far as earths go, the only one I can see on the tuner itself is the large metal ribbon type cable that goes from underneath to an earth point on the car. Anywhere else I should be looking?

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Reply By: The Geriatric Gypsies - Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 17:33

Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 17:33

goodday richard
had mine in for testing testerday similar problem radio and aerial just 12months old aerial has now been removed as there is a problem with it not self tuning but an off shoot to this problem they say my aerial is to close to the roof rack but i have never had a problem like this beforeand i may have to use a centre of spare wheel type mounting to move away from the rack ?? but a definite problem with the tuning
it started with channel 2 but then got worse on channel 1 also was discussed that using just 1 channel could cause a hotspot which would do the same thing

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Follow Up By: Member - RFLundgren (WA) - Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 17:52

Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 17:52

Hi Steve

I have not had this problem before. Had the antenna mounted in the same spot for the past 3 1/2 years with no issues.

It fails first and then eventually decides to tune. I thought maybe power, although I left the fridge running all last night and it was cold this morning, so the battery should be ok.

At the moment I am still at a loss. I will try to call into a sked tonight to make sure it is transmitting ok, and if that is good then I am still up for some further suggestions.

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Follow Up By: The Geriatric Gypsies - Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 18:44

Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 18:44

goodday richard
sounds the same as mine and when we took it to the dealer the harder he worked the channel changer the more it started failing more often until it failed everytime after about an hour of testing

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Follow Up By: Member - RFLundgren (WA) - Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 20:55

Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 20:55

Steve

Mine seems to want to work after about 2 - 5 minutes of turning on. I did call into Adelaide base this afternoon and was told I sounded like I was next door to him so at least the radio itself seems to be working just fine.

Will have to check the earth connections, although I would think that if it was a bad earth it would tend to be more unreliable than it currently is, so hoping it is not the autotune itself :(

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