[ICOM] Smoked PROII

[Ed Swynar]

I've News For You...

ICOM neglected to incorporate any sort of grounding relay in the 751A
either...! And it came out some 18 years ago.

I had to build up an external arrangement for my set-up here to prevent
self-destruct mode whenever I had my Beverage antenna hooked-up to it ---
you should have seen the SB-610 monitorscope pattern before I did that!

Curiously enough, my Yaesu FT-980 DOES incorporate a built-in grounding
relay for its separate receiving antenna jack...go figure.

~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ



----- Original Message -----
From: "JV" <kt4u at adelphia.net>
To: "Z Icom" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 9:02 AM
Subject: Fw: RE: [ICOM] Smoked PROII


>
>
>  Adam
>     Icom wins the fur lined pot for this blunder, hi hi.
> CUL
> JV
>
> -------Original Message-------
>  Subject: RE: [ICOM] Smoked PROII
>
> Hi JV,
>
> Icom's designers did not put a T/R switch in the receive antenna input of
> any of the IC-756 radios, going right back to the original IC-756. It
would
> have been a simple matter to include an additional relay, but the product
> planners' decision to omit it was most likely based on the requirements of
a
> broad spectrum of amateur and non-amateur end-users world-wide.
>
> Cheers for now, 73,
> Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ
>  ==============================
> Adam
>
>     You mean to tell me that Icom didn't have the intelligence to put a
> relay switch in the receive antenna circuit. To con a phrase "What in the
> #$%& were they thinking"!!! I guess my 756pro is the same way.
>
> JV
>
>
>
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