I don't think he's at fault either, and to me they owe him a repair job
or new rig IMHO. That equipment costs too much for something like that
to be thought of. If they knew it was this way, and did not have it in
the operations manual, that's just wrong and they owe him. There's
nobody that ought to have to read a schematic to see how one is before
they ever use it. That's BAD engineering practice if I ever seen it. If
I was Don, I'd call um up and raise he** until it was settled! Plus, I'm
glad he told it here so I know about Icoms, and whether I could trust
them now on what they make.
Will
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:03:26 +0000 (GMT), Roger Parsons
<ve3zi@yahoo.com> wrote:
Don is blaming himself for this problem.
My feeling is that Icom should not offer/have offered
equipment with a defective design!
All Don did was to connect an auxiliary receive
antenna to the auxiliary receive antenna connection.
The rig fails to operate correctly in those
circumstances and ultimately fails catestrophically.
It is quite unreasonable to expect a user to closely
examine a microscopic schematic before using the
equipment, particularly when the proposed usage is
described in the operating manual.
FWIW, I am sure that all the older Icoms suffer from
the same defect, and suspect that many other rigs from
most manufacturers are the same.
73 Roger
VE3ZI
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