[ICOM] 706MKIIG No CW Output

[k0sd at juno.com]

Hello,
   Don't know if this is resolved, haven't seen anything to that point.
   I run a good bit of mobile CW (have paddle sitting on the seat of the
care beside me).   Do you get the cw sidetone when you hit the paddle in
cw?   If you're not getting side tones for cw, you may be plugged in the
wrong plug in back (I've done it, been there), or it's wired wrong.   Be
sure the ground/frame goes to the paddle common, and dot and dash go to
tip and middle ring of plug.  If you have ssb output, and/or can switch
to rtty and get normal power out, I'd look real hard at the cw plug.   Be
sure it is wired correctly for the paddle.   Try screwing the shell off,
and short across the contacts right at the back of the radio, see if that
gives you the cw sidetone, and cw power out.   
   Just some thoughts.   There are times I've used the 706 for code
practice or demonstration.   Move the freq out of the ham band so it
mutes the rf out, and send cw (the sidetone oscillator works real nice
for a demo without rf on the air that way).

73's de Stephen, K0SD in FL

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On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:06:31 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time) "JV"
<kt4u at adelphia.net> writes:
> Bert 
>     I was over there when you called. Fred was a little quick on the 
> trigger
>  Output on CW is only a few milli watts and he did work some one. It 
> does
> receive OK on SSB and CW. Nothing has changed on the radio since it 
> was
> shipped. I am just trying to help him get the radio going. It works 
> find in
> SSB and the SWR antenna settings are in the 1.2 : 1 range. Still 
> looking for
> ideas.
> JV 
>  
> -------Original Message------- 
>  
> From: hamradioguy 
> Date: 06/10/06 12:10:14 
> To: ICOM Reflector 
> Subject: Re: [ICOM] 706MKIIG No CW Output 
>  
> JV, 
>  
> When I talked with Fred about this the other day I suggested that it 
> might
> be a problem with the outside meter/coax connections/antenna etc. in 
> that
> the radio worked fine in all modes when I checked it out before 
> shipping it.
> When I last talked to him on Friday he confirmed that I was right 
> and that
> was the problem. He told me he could hear the signal in a receiver 
> and that
> he had put it on the air and worked someone on CW. That would 
> indicate you
> are now looking for something that has changed since then or 
> reocurred. 
>  
>  
> I'm wondering if there is still a problem that is swr related 
> causing the
> rig to fold back it's output to protect it from a high SWR... 
>  
> Bert W1DFU 
>  
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:09:34 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time), "JV"
> <kt4u at adelphia.net> wrote: 
> > Hi Guys 
> > Need some advise. A friend purchased an used 706MKIIG that will 
> not Tx 
> > on CW. It has full output in SSB mode as displayed on the meter 
> and audio 
> > is 
> > great but zero using CW. We though the meter was not picking up 
> CW. I put 
> > my 
> > meter inline and it will make the needle wriggle showing less than 
> a one 
> > watt out. The radio is in CW mode, BK is on and the red Tx light 
> comes on.
> 
> > Anyone have any ideas. He wanted to work CW in the six meter 
> contest today
> 
> > if possible. 
> > JV 
> > 
> > 
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