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My #2 comm radio went dead at 11,500 over eastern Oregon and the squelch breaker was the culprit
Flying a Cessna 182 back from Pendleton on Tuesday, my second comm radio just quit on me around 11,500 feet over the Blue Mountains. I keyed the mic and got nothing, no static, no nothing. I spent about 20 minutes swapping headsets and checking the audio panel before I remembered this plane has a separate breaker for the squelch circuit, and it had popped. Resetting it brought the radio right back, but it popped again 5 minutes later, so I got a ground on the ramp in Baker City and found a chafed wire rubbing the airframe near the antenna. If any of you have chased an intermittent squelch breaker, I would like to hear what the odds are that it is just the wire or if the radio is on its way out.
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adam_hernandez12d ago
Check the wire routing near the antenna base first, chafed wire is way more common than a dying radio and it fits your popping breaker. Resetting it brought it back, so the radio itself is probably fine, but a wire rubbing that airframe will keep popping until you fix the chafe and add some standoff or loom.
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