Last night, December 11th. I also heard a pop and smelled an electrical odor.
No TX. I called an Icom service center this morning. They told me the driver
transistor probably went out. I purchased this 7000 new from AES on April 5,
2012. It goes back for repair today.
I've been considering purchasing a second new IC-7000 for my motorhome
but now I may go to Yeasu.
-Tom, W3TLN
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:57 AM, 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
