[ICOM] IC 725 Won't Transmit

Randy tnfarmer at bellsouth.net
Wed Oct 17 14:53:47 EDT 2007


Try Replacing the fuses inside the radio.I had the same problem a year 
ago,did that and right back to full power from that point.That was the 
problem.
Randy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Mairs (SAG)" <lmairs at sagcorp.com>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [ICOM] IC 725 Won't Transmit


> Gary -
> No dead spots that I noticed, TX light comes on.  Don't know about AM or 
> CW.  I will have to get the radio down from the shelf and try it out.  It 
> took me awhile to even recognize that the problem was with the radio and 
> not the antenna system.
>
> Very subtle failure - all of a sudden nobody was hearing me...
> 73 de Lee
> KM4YY/8
>
>
> Gary Fiber wrote:
>> Lee,
>>
>> Any other symptoms like dead spots in the receive while tuning the main 
>> dial? Does the TX light illuminate when you press the PTT? Will it 
>> transmit in AM, CW ?
>>
>> Gary K8IZ
>>
>> At 06:26 AM 10/17/2007, you wrote:
>>> My IC 725 started out to intermittently refuse to transmit.  I could fix 
>>> the problem by cycling the power off and then back on after a few 
>>> seconds.  I wasted a good six months convinced that the problem was in 
>>> the Tarheel antenna system in my mobile, but after lending the radio to 
>>> a friend discovered that the problem was independent of being mobile.
>>>
>>> The radio now is virtually unusable as the period between intermittent 
>>> failures is only a few minutes.
>>>
>>> Any clues out there?
>>>
>>> 73 de Lee
>>> KM4YY/8
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>> Gary Fiber K8IZ
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