That's what windsocks are for.

I don't believe a fly-over was a good choice in the situation, Ron.

NORDO is not an emergency. Burning stuff IS however.

Right. Question was, *was* there something burning, or smoldering, or
no? As more time went by with no further signs, the "no" became
reinforced.

My experience with electronics (limited) made me think it was a cap or
resistor that went, in which case no more circuit and no real fire
danger.

In flight fires are nothing to sneeze at. The fire potential is a
much bigger issue than the nuisance of having no radios VFR. ATC
can fend for themselves.

In retrospect, I agree with you, in that I should have just turned the
master off and left it there.

And make sure it has alkalines or some other non-self-discharging
batteries in it. Nothing like finding the nicads in your handheld are
dead when you need it in such a situation.

Yeah, I recharge them twice monthly.

There's no real point to it in this case.

Glad you agree with that.

Glad it all worked out for you.

Thanks. In reality, it was not a big deal. It's what it could have
been had there actually been a fire.