[ICOM] IC-756PROIII No Transmit

[Lawrence Young]

Guys: Products like the Burghardt BEV-756 are designed to serve as a front end saver for those hams who may not understand that one cannot safely transmit on one antenna and leave another one such as a Beverage receive antenna  still connected to the receiver. I am amazed at the number of hams that I know who may do this without realizing the possibility of damage to the radio.
Larry K4LXV

--- On Tue, 3/24/09, k0bx at arrl.net <k0bx at arrl.net> wrote:

From: k0bx at arrl.net <k0bx at arrl.net>
Subject: [ICOM] IC-756PROIII No Transmit
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 10:31 AM

I had this problem twice with my PROIII.

1st time I sent it to ICOM East.  He repaired the rig and had it back in just a
few days.  It was a front-end part.  I am at work so don't know what part it
was.

2nd time was on 9 months after the first repair.  Same problem.  No transmit.
Same part.

This time I decided to sent it to: Burghardt's for repair.  They advertised
a small board to prevent the frontend problem.

http://www.burghardt-amateur.com/

The part which they make is:

 BEV-756 Burghardt In IC-756/756PRO/756PROII/756PROI 79.95 

I had them install it while they were doing the repair.  So far I have not had
anymore problem.  But who knows??  But why would a company like burghardt take
the time to design/build and sell a modification if it didn't have a market
for it?

Joe K0BX