[Icom] Icom AH4 Quit on me

[Brian Carling]

On 17 Oct 2002 at 10:24, Cletus W Whitaker wrote:

> You might check that the power going to the AH-4 during its attempt to
> tune is greater than 5 watts, but not more than 10 watts.  If it's
> outside these limits, adjust the manual power control for about 8
> watts and try again.  That is controlled by the transceiver using the
> ALC lead.  

Thank you Clete. 
The power during tune is 10 watts according to both my IC746 and 
my meter in the MFJ-949D 
(don't worry that is running in "straight-thru" mode.)

> Also, put a dummy load on the output of the AH-4 and try
> again. Then, check every connection.   

I will plan to do both of these.

> I don't know how you'd clean
> the relays in the AH-4.  The are sealed.        73    Clete 

Well the other guy says he did it, so I guess he did it somehow!

I will just have to see, and maybe make that my last resort before I call Icrum and 
ask them to fix it!

I just hope I don't have to send it in because that will mean weeks of QRT and also 
the chance that they will send it back still not working like they did to that other guy.

Yaesu is beginning to look more and more attractive to me!

Sigh.