Re: [amsat-bb] W32 and desense

["James" <kb7tbt@xxxxxxxxx>]

I like Icom and this was one of there worst products I have ever seen, 
within our group there is  1 or 2 of them we pass around as a junk/slave 
radio.

One of them we have just starts to drift off freq for no reason at all, it 
can be sitting monitoring or under heavy transmit, no matter what all of a 
sudden it will start to fade away, the final resolution to this radio is to 
drop it on the ground or hit it with a hammer and it will fix itself..

We have tried to isolate the problem and just cant find it, we even set the 
freq dead on and would drift almost 8k off again. Does not matter if it is 
2m or 440 both sides do the same thing.

weird radio.



KB7TBT
http://www.kb7tbt.com
DM33

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Bostwick" <lihan161051@sbcglobal.net>
> To: <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] W32 and desense
>
>
>> Yikes, didn't know they were that bad.  Never had that problem with
>> my TH-79AD.  Had other problems, namely the LCD drive voltages
>> leaking over into the transmit audio (which earned me plenty of
>> gripes and not-very-helpful "helpful" suggestions on 2m repeaters
>> since the buzz was around 60Hz), but didn't have that problem .. ;-)
>>
>> On Feb 2, 2006, at 1:00 PM, James wrote:
>>
>> > Unfortunately a W32 is probably the worst idea to have when
>> > attaching an external antenna.
>> >
>> > Twin band operations with just the standard rubber dummy antenna is
>> > marginal.
>> >
>> > Icom discontinued the W32 because it was a hunk of junk but people
>> > kept on asking for it because it was the cheapest true twin band HT
>> > radio out on the market. So of course if they can sell a product
>> > they will regardless if it is worthless.
>> >
>> > I owned a W32 for 1 day, the intermod and desence was unbelievable.
>> > I brought it back and got a T7H.
>> >
>> >
>> > KB7TBT
>> > http://www.kb7tbt.com
>> > DM33
>> >
>> > Remember: You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter!
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Bostwick"
>> > <lihan161051@sbcglobal.net>
>> > To: <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
>> > Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:08 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] W32 and desense
>> >
>> >
>> >> It's desensing in crossband full duplex?
>> >>
>> >> On Feb 2, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Howard Stephenson - K6IA wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Does anyone have a solution to my desense problem with a new W32A HT
>> >>> and the arrow beam using the in boom duplexer?  It so bad that I
>> >>> can't
>> >>> hear my downlink.
>> >>> Howard Stephenson K6IA
>>
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