[Icom] IC-756PROII

Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:21:06 -0600

Hi,
Speaking of a strike, I was once an EIC at large systems installation in
the basement 
of a 7 story building. The system was fed by M-G set for noise
isolation. One summer
we took a direct hit on the building and guess what happened? Our file
system was
all garbled. Took 30 hours to recover from the damage. No hardware
damage, just mass
storage contents was all become garbage.
73,
Tony, VE6CGX

Matt Erickson wrote:
> 
> I can attest to this. In 1994 I had a direct strike that fried anything in
> the radio shack that was connected to ground. The only gear that survived
> was not connected to a ground, even though it was connected to the other
> gear that was damaged.
> A near by strike induces very high potentials in the surrounding earth, if
> your house happens to be in this area, everything in your house can reach
> this same potential.
> 
> At 12:23 PM 7/21/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >I don't have a suggestion for you, but I do know a guy who had a lightning
> >strike near his house and it fried his radio by coming in through the ground
> >line believe it or not. It came right up his grounding system.
> >John Miller N1UMJ
> >Owner: J E M Racing need sponsors and crew help
> >to chat with me  AOL instant messenger JEMracing3
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Malcolm Ringel" <[email protected]>
> >To: <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 11:03 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Icom] IC-756PROII
> >
> >
> > > A remote possibility: check ur VOX.......
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ron Tivey" <[email protected]>
> > > To: <[email protected]>
> > > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 6:57 AM
> > > Subject: [Icom] IC-756PROII
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello to All,
> > > >
> > > > Living in N. Florida is hell on Radios... I had a near lightning hit
> > > > yesterday (AGAIN).  All the equipment was unplugged and disconnected but
> > > > the juice got in anyway.  When I turn on my PROII it runs through the
> > > > calibration cycle but then goes to transmit.  It does this in all
> > > > modes.  All the external stuff (TNC, Mic, AMP) is disconnected.  When
> > > > the PW-1 is connected and powered up alone it also transmit but
> > > > unplugged from the radio it works okay.  I tried to reset the CPU.  No
> > > > Joy.  I know this has a solid state TX relay so I am assuming it's
> > > > fried.  Does anyone have a suggestion on what to try next or just box it
> > > > up and send it to Icom?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ron, N4GFO
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