[Icom] Mods for ICOM 756 PROII

Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:44:21 -0800

It's amazing what you can do with a dummy load.

73, Dick

At 05:39 PM 1/21/2003, you wrote:
 >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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