[ICOM] Icom 775DSP with green display???

[Michael P. Olbrisch]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Renee
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:52 AM
> To: icom at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [ICOM] Icom 775DSP with green display???
> 
> I was looking at ham stuff on Ebay and noticed a completed 
> auction for an Icom 775DSP with a green display!! I had never 
> seen or heard of this before and was wondering if anyone had
> info about it? How many were made, etc.?

My ICOM IC-820H is the only one I know of with a GREEN display.  The way is
came about is because I was too cheap to pay the high price for GENUINE ICOM
lamps.  I bought the cheaper Radio shack lamps to keep it lit.  But they are
cheaper for a reason!  They blow.  Actually, they suck, which is why they
blow.  Well - you get the idea!

So I got on the E-place and bought 60 white LEDs for about $15.  I started
with the 820.  Now every time a radio (or whatever) loses a lamp quits, that
radio gets converted to LEDs.

The "WHITE" LEDs really have a pale blue tint to them.  This pale blue -
when mixed with the yellow display - makes the display look GREEN.

Perhaps this is how it came to be.  Were I you, I would drop the seller an
E-mail and ask how his got that way.

Hmmmm - I shudda put an LED in the IC-551D while it was on the bench.
Oh-well... It will blow the lamp sometime in the future.  I got time!

NOTE:  I <VERY CAREFULLY> take a grinder to the LED and grind it smaller.
In stock form, the light is too sharply focused.  At least grind the rounded
tip flat.

Well - 0430, time to hit the road.  Got to keep making that electricity.

Mike.  KD9KC.
El Paso, Texas.