[Icom] Damage

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:56:23 -0700

Bill,

You have my deepest sympathy.  I know you have spent a lot of time putting
your stations togeather to say nothing of the work involved in setting it
up.  Doesn't sound like there is too much you could have done to prevent it
coming thru the ground line like that.  It would be almost impossible to
isolate a station like yours from a strike, it would take two days just to
disconnect everything.

Take care  I'll look for you on 14.010

Larry L. Ravlin  AKA Laurence The Magnificent"
[email protected]
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---- Original Message -----
From: William Diamond <[email protected]>
To: Icom@Mailman. Qth. Net <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 7:31 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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