[Icom] IC-740 trouble again (still ?)

Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:02:22 -0400

Reed,

The radio sounds like it just needs an alignment.

73, Frank W3UHF

>From: Claudia Park <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Icom] IC-740 trouble again (still ?)
>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:29:05 -0300
>
>
>OK, thanks to various members of this group I have the IC-740 working
>on the WARC bands, now I am told that it is 2 KHz off frequency when I
>transmit. Any suggestions out there ? It's a friends radio.
>
>I have looked at various web sites for common problems, but didn't find
>anything
>that fits that description. I did find lots of fixes for my IC-751 like
>changing about
>12 electrolytics, 4 of them were on the PLL board. This fixed my
>display problem
>as well as cured the warbling. I wonder if manufacturers ever made an
>electrolytic
>that didn't give trouble ? Seems to me that most of the problems I have
>had with
>my vintage radios were mostly lytic related also.
>
>7 3
>Reed  -  VE1NU
>
>
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