[Icom] re sick IC-745

[Tony Hwang]

Hi,
Even the reference osc. for the PLL is dead?
Is there any sign of life on the radio? Like all DC voltages are OK?
73,
Tony, VE6CGX

Fern Rivard wrote:

>    I just acquired another Icom IC-745 transceiver. I found that the
>lithium battery in the ram board was dead. I substituted the good ram board
>from my good working 745 but radio was still dead (no receive or transmit
>and no frequency display). I then hooked my spectrum analyser to the output
>of the VCO and no output there. It does not receive or transmit on any of
>the bands so I would think that it's not likely that it's just the VCO caps
>that need replacing or do they all go bad at once??  Anyone with a lot of
>experience on these that could give me some more insight as to what to check
>out next.  I will be ordering the Nardo memory board from IK2RND rather than
>use the unreliable original Icom ram board.
>    73 from Fern
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