[ICOM] Icom W-32A BNC connector design flaw

[D C Macdonald]

Take a small length of shield braid from RG-58
(preferably silver, but not mandatory) and
sweat solder it across the gap!

Good luck and 73  ---  Mac, K2GKK/5


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From: Steve Lewis N8TFD <n8tfd at one.net>
Reply-To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
To: icom at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [ICOM] Icom W-32A BNC connector design flaw
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:22:41 -0500

I seem to have encountered a fairly common IC W-32A flaw...the "ground" 
connection from the outside of the BNC connector to the PC board has about a 
millimeter gap in it...probably from the connector moving around too much.

It's not worth sending the radio back since it's over 7 years old (bought it 
when W-32A was the "new" thing.)

So I'm pondering having a local tech or two look it over -- and pondering 
whether or not to buy a new one.

Has Icom "hardened" the BNC connections (ground and center) since the early 
days?

-73- de N8TFD/Steve
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