[Icom] The 761 Lives

Wed, 23 Apr 2003 06:22:22 -0700

Congrats.  Perseverance pays.

You done good!

Dean

At  21:32 4/22/2003, you wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>Well, the 761 lives somewhat now. 100 watts out on SSB, 40 W am and 40 FM,
>I set the AM and FM to these levels.
>
>Xtal X1 is bad and that is causing the lack of RTTY and CW.
>
>So what was wrong, well,,,,, the last batch of parts got the RF board fixed
>but my 60 year old eyes and hands put a diode in backwards. I bet I looked
>at it 5 times and I still did it wrong....  Oh well, I admit it.
>
>Now it is time to tackle the two other problems, the speech compressor does
>not work at all and the tuner is a disaster, totally inop.  I have to
>replace the lytic caps in the DC to DC converter in the tuner.
>
>One of the worm drive gears had fell off the tuner motor shaft and the
>other one was jammed up but at least the motors are still good.....
>
>Looks like the tuner will be another fun time.
>
>Does anyone have a spare tuner for one? or the mounting shelf for the
>internal PS unit. I found a PS for it.
>
>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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