[Icom] Interesting

[William Diamond]

Well, I still don't have much time for the ham gear evaluation but I am
doing a little late at night.

Some of the gear is coming back up ok after CPU resets but several are not.

Something interesting that I am finding is that the audio inputs on 6 rigs
are blown. Each of these rigs had SM 8 mikes with dual cords to feed 2 rigs
each.

The internals of the mikes are shorted together and the independent mike
cables and switches are shorted internally.

It looks like to me that that lightning got into the ground network and
jumped over inside the mikes and sent it to the other rid that it was hooked
to on the audio input.

As of tonight, all dual mikes are no longer in use here.  It seems that the
PS 125 switching power supplies faired better the transformer types.  An
interesting note, the majority of my 125's came straight from Japan and have
2 wire power cords instead of the 3 wire ones for the US.  Not a single 2
wire one blew, only the 3 wire ones.....   ????????

It seems that just about everything with an LCD display in the shop and
radio room has the display scrambled but some are starting to heal ok now.

More later

      William J. Diamond
       Rogers, Arkansas

    Ham Radio Operator WR0T

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