Motorola Spectra PL tone Problem

[1585hp]

I have a Motorola Spectra on the 900 MHz ham band. It was working fine then out of the blue, during a QSO, the PL encode quit working. I've been told this can be a common problem with the Spectras. Anyone know how to fix it? I re-capped the unit, it only had 3 leaky caps, all on the RF board, and they had not leaked enough to damage the circuit board. Any help is MUCH appreciated.

[Will]

You have more caps that have leaked and you can not see the damage under them. Look at your RF board again.

[1585hp]

Turns out it was a "hack" issue. Apparantly something was hacked incorrectly in the software. If I read the radio with a "non-hacked" version, you see that the PL tones are not there. Simply re-programing it with the non-hacked version and by changing the PL tones to the proper one fixed my problem. All has been good for over a month now.

[psteele35]

I had a similar issue. I bought a radio from a friend and reprogrammed it to my needs but the PL didn't seem to be working. I cloned it from a radio that I knew worked properly and it fixed the problem. I'm guessing it was something that was done in the programming by the previous owner... although he said he never had a problem and we're using the same software... weird.