[ICOM] IC-756PROIII No Transmit

[Alex]

> 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.

What should amaze you more is that manufacturer's of radios don't build in this kind of front end protection while they do include protective measures to prevent a PA from transmitting into a bad load. I'm not surprised that some hams come to expect such a protection to be there, especially since it's such a well understood problem and has been around since RX-only antenna options have been added to radios. Of course someone's going to say that it would make a rig more expensive...

73,
--Alex KR1ST
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