[Icom] 756ProII backlight / band conditions

[Larry Winslow]

I just did a sweep of 20 on my IC-765 and the band is DEAD. I heard one=20
weak cw signal on the bottom of the band but nothing else.

73 - Larry W=D8NFU
Seattle 20:02z

At 07:39 AM 7/24/02 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm traveling on vacation and stopped at HRO in NH Monday to buy a
>756ProII. I have a 20/17/15/10 meter dipole I brought with me in
>anticipation of using the rig. However on trying it Tuesday and this
>morning I find the bands are dead, as in I barely hear a thing. There
>are one or two stations on 20 I can barely hear, and nothing but noise
>on the other bands. I've gone thru the book to make sure everything is
>set up right,(ant 1 selected and ant connected to Ant 1, rf gain,
>everything else I would expect). I get lot's of noise, but virtually no
>stations, the few I do hear are so weak they are barely copyable.
>
>I've been off the air for several days so someone PLEASE tell me we have
>had a massive solar condition that has wiped out the bands for several
>days, and it is not my new 756ProII!
>
>Also, there is a display command Backlight(switches) that doesn't seem
>to do anything except adjust the brightness of the s-meter light. There
>is no backlighting of any of the switches on the panel under any
>slection. Are the pushbuttons/switches etc supposed to be backlite or is
>this a problem?
>
>Thanks, Ray  W2EC
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