[ICOM] 706MkIIG VHF Xmit Problem.

[Gary V. Smith]

I've had a 706MkIIG in my car for a couple of years.  Since I don't 
travel in my work anymore it was overkill so this last weekend I took 
it out.  I set it up in the shack.  It transmits fine on HF and UHF, 
but now won't transmit on 2 meters.  Whenever I key the mike the 
radio shuts off momentarily.  Kind of like it does whenever you have 
high SWR on HF.  I've tried a couple of different 2m antennas with 
the same result.  The odd thing is that it will transmit on UHF with 
the 2m-only antenna without shutting off.  BTW, I had a tri-band 
antenna on the car and the radio performed fine on 2m the last time I 
used it there.  I hope that it isn't a worse case scenario in that 
the VHF final is bad, but when I look at the block diagram the UHF 
side apparently uses the same final.  Anybody got any solutions for this?

Thanks.

73,
Gary - W6GVS
Dowagiac, MI