Many thanks to those who offered valuable advice, most especially K8CC, who has apparently subconsciously taught me how to troubleshoot problems systematically, and to VE3ZI, who confirmed my conclus
Don is blaming himself for this problem. My feeling is that Icom should not offer/have offered equipment with a defective design! All Don did was to connect an auxiliary receive antenna to the auxili
On Jan 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, <k8bb@comcast.net> wrote: Many thanks to those who offered valuable advice, most especially K8CC, who has apparently subconsciously taught me how to troubleshoot problems
I don't think he's at fault either, and to me they owe him a repair job or new rig IMHO. That equipment costs too much for something like that to be thought of. If they knew it was this way, and did
Before you guys start filing class action law suits, don't you think you ought to consider that RF getting into a rig happens all the time and can't always be designed out?? My Icom 706 popped a tran
Can't disagree with your statements, but Don has ZERO chance of getting any help from Icom. The situation with the receive antenna input is well known among Icom 765 users who operate on 160. KD9SV m
Not only is the "problem" well known with the 765 ... it exists in all of the Icom radios, the Yaesu FT-1000 series radios, and most other rigs that provide provisions for either an external receive
I am certainly not in favour of any attempt to get Icom to pay for the repair, and I think it very likely that any such attempt would fail. After all the radio is probably 10 years old. However, I re