Thanks very much for this. Other videos I've seen had you taking all the VCO components off the board first. I think I'll try this first before doing that deep dive. 73' de W1MM

Kevin, thank you very much for your time producing this informational video! And now comment to Kenwood, the use of Sonygoop, years ago the long term effects possibly could be excused, BUT only marginally, now there is just NO excuse for the poor wave soldering resulting in way too MANY faults. Kenwood, shame on you!

I was feeling very nostalgic for my 440sat that I gave away in 2005. After seeing all the issues you had I'm over it :)

I am so impressed. I am new to ham radio after a close friend, an active ham, passed away and left me his gear. The transceiver is a Kenwood 440. The only issue I

Parallel lives Kevin. Grew up north side Indianapolis, licensed at 14, lapsed, back in with Extra class. SKCC, TS-440SAT, exact same antique key, but NO DOTS! You can banished them for both of us. Love this radio. Hope to see you on 40m, 73s and thanks for the video. WB0WHD

That's one radio I keep getting, it gets lost in the shuffle so I sell it then find a good deal on another one, run it and remember how much I like it and say I'll never get rid of it that time. I'm on my third or fourth one now and this one I will truly not let go of.

Hi Keven. Great video. my old 440 suffered with dry joints on the microprocessor boards at the front end.

Old video... just now saw it. My old TS440sat finally bit the dust a couple days ago after many-a-year of service. Output dropped to maybe 5-watts, except that sometimes it has full output on AM. Oddly, the SWR meter function always shows full scale regardless of which antenna/dummy load is present, and sometimes the auto-tuner just rattles on forever without ever finding resonance. Don't know whether to attempt to fix her, or just keep it hooked up to a wire as the best general coverage shortwave receiver I've ever had. Good job on fixing yours - I'd heard about the glue terror before.

Nice job, Kevin! The TS440 is quite a workhorse of a radio and does very well with digital modes and CAT control.

Looking forward to getting back on HF again. Great video keep up the good work.

I had the fun of working on one of these radios myself. I spent the better part of a week cleaning the gunk out of it and resoldering boards. Never was I so glad to get a project off my bench!

The 440 is a fine radio. I purchased one new back when they were new and did eventually need to send it to Kenwood where they "removed some goop" from some of the components. I guess that means they did what you did (?). I still have the radio. It is in my daughter's closet up in WA along with a power supply. I use it when I visit her from time to time. I replaced the 440 as my main rig with a used 570, and I greatly enjoy the improved computer interface with the digital modes and computerized logging. On the other hand, I miss the narrow filter and the ability to "move it around" the waterfall when using sound card generated rtty. Cannot seem to duplicate that behavior with the 570. But the 570 is better on CW. All of life is a trade-off! I understand that many of the replacement parts for the 570 are made from unobtanium, so I will have to face that problem some day in the future.

Yep, I just had to make the same repair. Took about 10 hours to remove a few parts at a time and scrape the glue out of the PLL board and RF board, then resolder all of the bad joints. I added the IC10 kit while I had it open. I used dental picks which helped a lot. Now I need to add 800 ohms to R27 on the Final board to get the fan to come on at a decent temperature for higher duty-cycle digital modes.

I just scored a near mint 2001 unit with all original packaging (incl the outer shipping box) and original owner's receipt. Can't wait to set it up.

I used one of these in 86. It's a nice radio.

You answered my question re the IC-745. I owned both of these radios (inherited the 440SAT from my dad's estate when he passed away in '92) and loved them both. Not a big AM fan, so liked the 745 better.

Enjoyed the video. My Kenwood is a TS 680 still going strong, including 6 meter. I also have an IC 745 with the Pi exx static memory board installed. Except for some drifting until she warms up, she purrs along. It's built like a tank. I might never part with it. N7TYE

I enjoy the education. Good audio, clear video. For close up shots, take a digital camera, pop off the lens, turn the lens backwards onto the lens mount. Move the entire camera up and down until you see it focus. An inexpensive close up lens.

I have cleaned the glue out of both locations but I’m getting a transmit/receive issue. Sometimes it will tx and not rx. Sometimes it will rx and not tx.

I enjoyed the video. congrats on the repair job and 'new' rig! 73 wb2smk