[Icom] Mods for ICOM 756 PROII

Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:39:05 -0500

Clete,

Do I understand you correctly? You transmitted at every 100 kHz in the HF 
spectrum and at quite a few points at MF? If so, you are putting your 
Amateur Radio license at risk!

73, Frank W3UHF

>From: Cletus W Whitaker <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Icom] Mods for ICOM 756 PROII
>Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:00:14 -0500
>
>de WB2CPN South Central Pennsylvania     2003.01.21
>
>I've used a few ICOM transceivers, and a TS-940, on frequencies
>outside the amateur bands.  One test for the antenna tuner was to
>measure at all the 100 KHz points from 30 MHZ down to about 1600
>KHZ.  I never had a problem with full output until the 756ProII
>came along.  Not to point fingers, but it's possible ICOM planned
>the roll-off in the 5 to 6 MHZ area to plan for the new amateur
>band being established there.  Of course, they would have a minor
>snip-snip to a few band pass components for sale at that time.
>And, I could be wrong.  If Adam knows what type  filters are in
>there we could maybe reverse engineer and undo what ICOM did to
>cause the roll-off.            73   Clete
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