[ICOM] 718 Receiver

dale drobins at semo.net
Sun Dec 5 12:34:54 EST 2004


I had  a similar problem for a while.  I had the antenna tuner set up wrong 
for the setting I was using.

Hope this helps


Dale




At 11:07 AM 12/5/2004, you wrote:
>Hi All-
>
>Have a friend with a new 718 that I helped him set up. No matter what 
>transmit power setting we use ( including transmit= H ), we can't get the 
>radio to put out more than 50 watts. Have very low antenna SWR and 
>received S-9 SSB reports from Calif ( we live in Texas ). Key down in RTTY 
>shows exactly 50 wattts on radio's power meter.
>
>Any thoughts? Could it have a bad power transistor?
>
>Thanks, Andy K5VM
>
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