On Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 07:09:27 AM MST, Craig- KB4RU via groups.io <ki4coa@...> wrote:
Inspiration for others.
Hopefully this helps someone else have some hope in restoring their IC-7000
Your story reinforces what is a very typical scenario during repairs of most anything.? Yes, sometimes thing fail in spectacular ways (lightning strike, water damage) that make a repair attempt futile but in most cases the issue is confined to a specific part or functional assembly.? In a past life I was a commercial radio bench tech and fixed thousands of radios, most of that was isolating the fault to a given part, replace it, and off it goes again.? Odds of fixing it are in your favor, *if you try*.? Hams get freaked out over surface mount and yeah, sometimes getting in there to poke at a test point with a scope can be a challenge, but there's nothing magic about it.? Take your time, be methodical and odds are you'll find something obvious.? You'll never find it if you never try.
Mark K5LXP
Albuquerque, NM
