[ICOM] 7546 Pro II

[JOE DE GREGORIO]

My thoughts exactly.....Joe, W3JO



  You Know .......
   I wanted to ask the VERY same thing hi

  Dave Edwards wrote:

  > Um...was it a 'good' idea to leave a Pro 2 on full transmit for 10+ 
  > minutes??

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  >> Hi all,
  >>
  >> A question for you guys. I was testing out a new dummy load to see how
  >> "good" it was, last night. I tuned to 20m and FM and left the rig on 
  >> (into
  >> dummy load) for about 10+ minutes, at full power. The dummy load 
  >> passed the
  >> test with flying colours! However, after the test, the Pro II was 
  >> getting
  >> rather hot at the back and then refused to transmit on SSB, it indicated
  >> very high SWR's which I could not correct with the "tune" function. 
  >> By this
  >> time I was on main aerial and not the dummy load. So I did a Bill Gates,
  >> switched everything off, waited a few minutes and then switched 
  >> everything
  >> back on and all worked just fine. Made a number of FB SSB contacts on
  >> various bands.
  >>
  >> Is there a heat sensor within the rig that stops transmissions until the
  >> unit has cooled down?? Just for information the receive side worked
  >> perfectly.
  >>
  >> 73's de Tony G8DQZ