Same for me. Radio was powered on and idle the first of November. Scott at MTS Tech services suspected ICOM has the bias on the driver set above manufacturers spec. Note that is not confirmed yet. My 7000 is on vacation with him. He does have a backlog, but I feel he will do a first rate job and stated he will drop the bias to spec if that is the cause.
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--- In ic7000@..., Teddy Edwards <teddy.edwards52@...> wrote:
Hey All I am VP2ETE and have been running an Icom 7000 for just over 6
months. I have been using it for SSB only and on Deember 11th 2012 at about
607 UTC while in the heart of some DX ing I heard a pop and then observed
smoke coming from the radio. I immediately shut the station down and waited
a while before bringing it back up. I restarted the Icom 7000 and surely it
is receiving OK but not transmitting.
I have been running the radio on 90 watts and the temperature gauge never
went into the red area. I have been keeping the room quite cool via AC and
a fan. I have no amplifier in the shack and at the time of the incident
been using an inverted Vee antenna cut specifically for 40 meters up about
35 feet.
I would like some suggestions from the group as members are much more
experience than I am as I have only been a ham for 24 months.
Thanks all VP2ETE
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