[Icom] ;R 71A

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Bill,
   Sounds like you got what you paid for....   My first guess would be a
DC Power supply problem.   Sounds like you have lot of AC ripple, and a
larger capacitor somewhere in the circuitry has opened up so the audio is
oscillating when the volume is turned up.

73's de Stephen, K0SD in NC

PS. If you decide to throw it, I'd like to poke around in it...

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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 21:32:22 -0700 (PDT) Diamond William <wr0t@yahoo.com>
writes:
> 
> Hi Gang,
> 
> I have a question. In a very weal moment, I picked up a "almost 
> mint" Icom R 71 A from Epay to use in my shop as I did not want to 
> put my new R 75A out there.
> 
> Well, I got it today and granted it was cheap but this thing is the 
> most deaf & howling receiver I have ever heard. The volume has to be 
> almost al the way up to hear audio and then it howls.  What signals 
> it does hear ( when they are really 40 over) are distorted and 
> raspy. Even AM is a joke.
> 
> Before I decide to more or less trash it, has anyone ran into this 
> before?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> 
> William J. Diamond (Bill)
> Rogers, Arkansas USA
> Ham Radio Operator WR0T
> 
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