[Icom] IC-756PROII

Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:49:33 -0700

All this proves that what the old fart said, "Light'nen does its own thing!"


At 04:21 PM 2002-07-21 -0600, you wrote:
>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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