[Icom] The 761 Lives

[Chris BONDE]

At 11:32 PM 2003-04-22 -0500, you wrote:
I have a couple of years on you but a few moons ago when I received my 2AT,=
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a ham said not modify i to open up the receive.  So he said take the back=20
off, yep I could do that, then see the board at such and such place, I said=
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yep I can, then he said on position ?? ther are 2 diode, just desolder the=
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wire on the ?? side of such diode.  I started to close up the rig.  What is=
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the matter can't you see the wires right there.  Nope I said I cannot see=20
the diodes. let alone the wires.  So he ended up doing the mod.

Now you talk about transistors, are there any in these rigs, the last time=
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I looked it was all circuitry, build up stuff no desrete transistors.

I admit that I have become an appliance operator.   (Still trying to learn=
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hwo to operate the applicance. the old 756pro.

Chris opr VE7HCB

>Hi Folks,
>
>Heck someday the 761 may really be fixed.  On the positive side thanks to
>Bill and Scott Malcom, I know a lot more about solid state than I did
>before.  I still think however, that I may just be too old to unlearn tubes
>and learn these little transistors.
>
>When I was working on brand C and D,  if the voltage was within 20 to 25%
>or a resistor was within 40% and the tube would light it would usually
>work. Not so on these babies as I have found out..
>
>Thanks for all the help.
>
>
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