[ICOM] 718 Receiver

[awallacejr at sbcglobal.net]

Thanks Dale. We had the problem of exactly 1/2 power before and after 
installing the 180 autotuner but will reinstall it--which as you know takes 
a hard reset of sorts to get to the tuner menu. Still think it is a great 
little radio for the money.

Sandy is using a B&W folded broadband dipole installed as a sloper for an 
antenna and it claims to have 50 ohm unbalanced input for coax connection. 
Not sure he even needs the 180 autotuner with this antenna.

Andy K5VM



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dale" <drobins at semo.net>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [ICOM] 718 Receiver


>I had  a similar problem for a while.  I had the antenna tuner set up wrong 
>for the setting I was using.
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> Hope this helps
>
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> Dale
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> 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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