[ICOM] 718 Receiver

[Larry Winslow]

Andy,

A word of warning about the B&W folded dipole. Do NOT try to use small 
diameter coax such as RG-58 or even RG-8X. I don't fully understand why, 
but using things such as RG-8, RG-213, 9913, etc. makes a world of 
difference with the antenna --- I know from experience.

73 - Larry WØNFU
larry_w at comcast.net

At 10:00 AM 12/5/2004, you wrote:

>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.
>>
>>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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