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Harry Krause
 
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Default Problems with ICOM IC-M502 VHF

Marcus AAkesson wrote:

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:10:56 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

I was "rafting up" with a friend in his boat, and while we were
negotiating the boat hookup, I tried to stay in touch with the VHF. He
could not hear anything at all when I transmitted at the one watt
setting, but could hear me with some signal breakup at the 25 watt
setting. We tried several channels; same results.

It's not the antenna or its fitting, as far as we can tell, because we
hooked up a spare VHF and it did fine.


Check the incoming power for oxidation or loose connections, anything
that causes a voltage drop when the TX load kicks in. Common problem
and easy to overlook.


/Marcus

Hope you are right. I will be checking those danged connections again.

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