[ICOM] The IC-471A Service Mystery

[Mike Olbrisch]

Scott Malcom - MTS at toledotel.com.  He is absolutely fantastic on the older
ICOMS.  E-mail him first with your problem - if it is an easy fix he will help
you do it, or you can send it to him anyway.

Good luck - take care.

Mike - KD9KC.
El Paso, Tx.
DM61rt

Molon labe. [mo-lone lah-veh] Google it...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf
> Of Rich Dailey (Gmail)
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 10:45 AM
> To: ICOM Reflector
> Subject: [ICOM] The IC-471A Service Mystery
> 
> Well, it's a mystery to me, at least.
> 
> I've done repair on various models of Icom rigs on and
> off for the last 20 years - mostly 735's, 751(a), 761, and 765's.
> Not a business, mind you, although I did have an electronic repair
> business up until 2005. I repair my own rigs when I can, and help out others
> when asked.
> 
> So I buy a 471A for a good price, my first Icom 70cm multimode.
> Knowing it has issues, I purchase intending to investigate the problems
> on my own.  Little did I realize that it would be so difficult, if not
impossible,
> to find service data for this rig.  I've been told that a service manual was
never
> published for this radio. I do have a schematic, a block diagram, and the
owners
> manual, but no technical description, no alignment procedures, none of the
> information that I need to carry out a decent diagnosis and repair.
> 
> So I ask:
> 
> * Does Icom repair this radio?
> * Any outside repair shop? How do they do this without the service data?
> 
> If there is a shop that can do the repairs (I suspect vco trimmer problems,
not
> unlike the 765 issue), please contact me off-list if you can help.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rich, N8UX
> http://home.windstream.net/ferncity/icom.htm
> 
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