[ICOM] Re 756Pro Tuner "mystery"

[Tom Norris]

Mac --

This makes me wonder if the previous owner didn't
use his on 6. I bought it used, but it has worked
fine for months, so who knows. Any chance Icom
put the part numbers down for what they replaced,
it would be ineresting to see if the same relays
failed on your radio as did on mine. Not sure about
the tuner controller board, but the SWR detector
did null as it should during alignment.

Tom


>Phil just be careful mine work ok for awhile,  THEN, it started acting
>up, would tune good for awhile and then it  kept running and wouldn't
>shut off. I called ICOM Seattle and told them what going on and that it
>stopped working. I sent it back to ICOM and just had a month left on the
>warranty. Here is what they found, REPLACED 3 DAMAGED RELAYS IN THE TUNER
>UNIT AND REPLACED OUT OF TOLERANCE CAPS ON TUNER CONTROL UNIT.  ICOM
>stated in the repair ticket,,,,Usual Cause is TUNER operation in the 6m
>band, TUNER HAS NO AUTO FUNCTION IN THIS BAND. You must re- initiate TUNE
>when going to this band or changing freq.'s in this band.
>So thats the story Phil, I leave the Auto Tuner off on 6M's and when I go
>to, say 50.125 I tune it manually. Good Luck, Mac