That is Icom's standard response when they don't feel like covering
something under warrantee. They tried to tell me that on a NEW IC-7200 that
was dead out of the box and had never been on an antenna.
I appealed, they covered it under warrantee.
If there stuff is so susceptible to ESD , it sounds like a design flaw?
73
Jim W7RY
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From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat1242@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 2:10 PM
To: "RTTYReflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
Subject: [RTTY] Followup on ESD from last week
> Got the report from the factory on my non working IC-7600. Turns out it
> was ESD damage. Three diodes and one IC were destroyed on the tuner
> control board. Not covered by warranty of course, so that learning
> experience cost me $223.45 plus shipping of $85 each way. Ouch.
>
> There never was any lightning, just that kind of precipitation static I've
> heard hundreds of times before, but will never hear again more than a
> fraction of a second. :-)
>
>
> Take a lesson, boys and girls.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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