[ICOM] 756PRO - let some smoke out

[Kelly Taylor]

Hi Adam,

Help!

What's the board immediately behind the antenna connectors? I hooked my PRO 
up today after a hiatus that included a trip to VE4VV for WW and could not 
get any power out. I returned to my TS850 and everything was fine, which 
seemed to point to something inside the PRO. (The PRO's receive audio also 
sounds thin and noisy.)

Sure enough, between the silver rectangular box in front of the 'PURPLE' 
coax connector are the charred remains of something... Whatever it had been, 
part of it is in a semi-liquid state on various parts of that board. It is 
about two inches forward of the ground bolt.

VV indicated that he had trouble getting the PRO to hear when he hooked it 
to an SB200 (through a buffer device on the key line). He said it was fine 
with the SB200 off, but deaf when the SB200 was on.

That I was able to hook the 850 back up without blowing it up seems to 
indicate it wasn't something here that blew the PRO up.

Your thoughts? Am I looking at an expensive repair? Perhaps an insurance 
claim in the making...

Thanks and 73,

Kelly
ve4xt