[ICOM] IC-718 relay integrity

[Joe]

If the 718 is anything like this Kenwood TS-430S what you are doing is a 
good thing.

This radio has the bad habit of the bands that are not used often the 
contacts on the relays go bad, and you do not hear anything. The main 
one that this happens to first is one band that is 4.0 to 7 MHz 
obviously that range never usually gets activated. and when I got mine 
it indeed was dead. as well as ten meters too. was intermittent.

But the cure fixed it fast and has worked ever since.

I guess the old adage use it or loose it fits pretty well.

Joe WB9SBD
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On 7/28/2014 1:47 PM, Patrick - KB8RTZ wrote:
> Over the years I made a habit of turning the dial to switch frequencies and using the buttons to switch bands. I was always concerned about the integrity of the relays in memory scan mode as the radio switched bands. Has anyone plugged a slew of frequencies into memory covering multiple bands and utilized the memory scan feature? How have your relays held up to such rapid switching? The only memory scan I have ever done was band edge scanning on a single band.
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