[ICOM] 718 Receiver

[awallacejr at sbcglobal.net]

Hi Gary--

The 718 went back to Icom Service--who thought it may have a bad power 
module--apparently it has two.

I've known Jim Tucker here in Dallas for almost 40 years and have done some 
legal work for him over the years-- there just wasn't any money in retail 
ham radio sales at the time Jim had his big retail store. Texas Towers is 
the only retail ham store left in the Dallas area now and I'll bet Jerry 
sells more over the net and through his magazine ads than he does out of his 
smallish local store.

Sandy's 718 on high power put out exactly 50 watts into a dummy load. I'm 
sure Icom will fix it and I find it a very impressive little radio--even at 
50 watts--and fun to operate.

Andy K5VM



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Fiber" <g.fiber at verizon.net>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [ICOM] 718 Receiver


> Andy,
>
> Yes I remember Sandy. I got to meet him once when Tucker Electronics was 
> into amateur radio sales at the Icom Day there. Must be about 10 years ago 
> now, and of course chatted with him on the phone many times over the 
> years.
>
> How you making out with the 718? Have you tried another power supply? How 
> about with the dummy load any luck there?
>
> I too own an IC-718. I bought it at the Seaside Hamfest this past summer.
>
> Gary K8IZ
>
>
> At 09:49 AM 12/5/2004, you wrote:
>>Thanks Gary. It is a new Icom power supply with a dedicated connection to 
>>the radio and he is also using an Icom 180 auto tuner properly hooked up. 
>>We also did two hard resets of the radio CPU to no avail. Also checked the 
>>antenna SWR with a MFJ meter--it is under 1.5 with no tuner. Will try the 
>>dummy load approach for impedance problems but it is interesting that the 
>>radio puts out exactly 1/2 its rated power; not close to 1/2 but exactly 
>>1/2 or 50 watts key down on RTTY.
>>
>>You may know Sandy-N5NBW--who owns the radio.
>>
>>BTW, the little radio is a lot of fun to operate and seems to be a lot of 
>>bang for the buck--especially if we can get 100 watts out ;-)
>>
>>Andy K5VM
>
> Gary Fiber K8IZ
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