[ICOM] Water damage to PW-1, now FIXED!!

[Jim Miller]

Occasionally, something goes right.

73, Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Gauthier (K8UT)" <K8UT at arrl.net>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [ICOM] Water damage to PW-1, now FIXED!!


> Thanks to all for your suggestions. I am happy to report that the PW-1 is
> back on the air and working fine.
>
> The diagnosis? Hoping to discover something amiss, I removed the cover
again
> and found that the flat ribbon cable connecting the PA1 board to the
> Splitter unit had become unplugged. In fact a piece of packing tape that
> folded the ribbon cable over and shortened it had peeled away from the
> ribbon cable and may have stuck to the outer cabinet. When I hurriedly
> removed the cabinet trying to minimize the effect of the water, I must
have
> popped the cable from its connector.
>
> I consider myself to be a very lucky guy!
>
> OK - so let's get ready for next weekend's SP DX RTTY contest. And what
> frequency is the BS7H DXpedition on? ;-)
>
> -larry
> K8UT
>
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