[ICOM] ICOM-R7000

[Floyd Petri]

Has anyone done this before on the R7000 that can tell me who has the
capacitors? I am extremely rural and will have to order them on line.

Floyd

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From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Gary
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:44 PM
To: 'ICOM Reflector'
Subject: Re: [ICOM] ICOM-R7000

Floyd,
These radios are old enough to be suffering from capacitor failures
especially electrolytic capacitors. Assuming no other obvious cause I'd
start checking the caps in the RF unit, PLL unit, IF unit, etc.
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Floyd Petri
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 8:05 PM
To: icom at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [ICOM] ICOM-R7000

I have an icom R7000 Receiver that started out with bad sensitivity and now
it does not hardly receive on any frequency except on local good time radio
stations just fine. I can dial up my local volunteer fire department VHF
frequency of 155.865 and receive nothing although a walkie talkie setting
beside it receives OK. Now I can put a signal generator on 155.865 and put a
piece of wire on the output and crank the signal up to 100K microvolts and
receive that just fine.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions on what may be wrong and how to fix it?

 

Floyd

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