Hello Dave,

Ian has made some good suggestions. It might help to know a little more
of your problem. For example, when you say the radio "seems to work" do
you hear hiss or can you actually hear stations? Or do you simply see
the dial lights? When it goes silent, do you mean power is switched off
or the hiss disappears? Or do you mean the stations you were listening
to suddenly become silent. Depending on your answers to these questions,
you could simply need to adjust the squelch! I'm sure you have tried
that, though.

Anyway, we might be better able to help if you give us some more
detailed information.

Good luck!

Chuck

Dave wrote:
My VHF began displaying some peculiar behavior at the end of the season.
When it's turned on, it seems to work for about a second, and then goes
silent. Don't know whether the problem is in the radio, or someplace in the
electric or antenna connections. I'm reluctant to buy a new radio if that
won't solve the problem. The easy way to tell would, of course, be to plug
it into an existing setup, but I don't have anyone around to do that, and
can't find any vhf repair places locally. Anyone had similar experience?

Dave