[Icom] Damage

[Floyd Sense]

Very sorry to hear about your problem, Bill.  I went through the same thing
last year after a lightning strike, but with far less damage than you have.
Two days after I got the check for the damage, I got a letter from the
insurance company notifying me they were canceling my home owner's
insurance.  Now I have separate insurance on the ham radio gear.

K8AC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Diamond" <wjdiamond@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Icom@Mailman. Qth. Net" <icom@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 10:31 PM
Subject: [Icom] Damage


> Well, folks, here is a brief rundown of the damage I got from the
lightning
> strike last Friday night.  This is just the ham gear.  There is lots of
> other damage to the house and computers.
>
>
>
> I started checking some of the gear on receive tonight and it is not
looking
> good.
>
> So far 4 PS 125's inop, 2 PS55's.
> No receive on these.
>
> IC 7400
> IC 737 S meter is even bent around the stop
> IC 738  Same thing..
> IC 756 Pro dead
> IC 751  dead
> IC 751A dead
> IC 730 dead
> IC 756PRO II Very little receive and no power out
> 2 KL, inop
> AT 500 tuner inop
> 2 AT 100 tuners inop
> Kenwood TS850 dead
> The following are working somewhat
> IC 701, IC 720, IC 749, IC 745
>
> The other major Icom gear and the KW 930 & 940 seems ok
> The port rig IC 703 + dead and even has a hole next to the ant jack
>
> 4 Daiwa coax switches and SWR meters
>
> Yaesu Rotor
>
> Traps are blown on the beam
>
> Looks like most of the poly phasers protection worked somewhat and 2 of
them
> are melted.
>
> Looks like it is going to be costly.
>
> The Insurance adjuster said to send them all to Icom for repair or
> replacement. Yeh, like Icom will fix the 738 & 737's and the 751's
>
> Looks like it will be shopping time soon.
>
> Also, there was no power or antennas hooked to anything, it came in over
the
> phone lines and ground to the radio room.
>
> So, are we having fun yet??  NO...
>
>
>       William J. Diamond
>        Rogers, Arkansas
>
>     Ham Radio Operator WR0T
>
>    Please Visit My Radio Site
>         wjdiamond.com
>
>
>
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