[Icom] 756 Ant Switches

D & P Graham [email protected]
Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:41:44 +0800


Darrel,

Is this RF coming back down a feedline connected to the external 
tuner???

73...Don VK6HK

From:           	Darrel Nichols <[email protected]>
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Date sent:      	Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:32:00 -0600

> On Thursday 24 January 2002 07:32 am, I wrote:
> > Brought home an early 756 over the weekend, on spec, to play 
with.
> > Had about decided to send the check when I noticed some bleed
> > through from the unused ant port...Using a dummy on Ant 2, 20M 
band,
> > had about 10 to 15 watts showing up on the external tuner 
connected
> > to Ant 1.
> >
> > Switching the Ant does kill RX audio, so perhaps just capacitive
> > feethru? Any comments or thoughts?
> >
> > The rig is early , serial 1130, but has been back for the factory
> > updates and is like new.   Any comments about the original 
"Crystal
> > filtered" 756 would be welcome.
> >
> > Darrel,
> > [email protected]
> >
> >
> >From the lack of response, I seem to have found something that no 
one
> on the net has an opinion on......Anybody know the link to Ripleys? 
:)
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