[SEDXC] Status of IC-701

[JT Croteau]

Many thanks to those who offered up support and new rig
recommendations when I started having problems with Chaz's old IC-701.
 Special thanks to those who convinced me to stay on the reflector and
ignore the trolls who were harassing me privately.

On Thursday, I took the rig over to K4DLI's house so we could put it
on the bench.  We weren't able to diagnose the problem as we really
need a schematic to do any more than checking of the obvious.  Chaz
supposedly has found the schematic so Jim and I will take another look
when he gets back in town.

However, the rig continues to work fine business on lower sideband.
So, what do you do when all you have on 20M is LSB?  Why get an
interface rigged up to your computer and run AFSK RTTY!  I've been
having quite a bit of fun on RTTY, my first contact was earlier today
with TM8CDX and, thanks to LotW, already have 4 DX countries confirmed
on 20M RTTY.

I'm heading to WW4LL in a couple weeks to help OP for the CQWW RTTY
contest so I think I will be operating RTTY until then for practice.

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  JT Croteau - W6FO - Canton, GA
  ARS #2,147 | NoGA-QRP | SEDXC | SECC | ARRL