[amsat-bb] FT-736R 1.2GHz Issue?

[Stephen Nelson]

Maybe this was already talked about, but I like to share something similar
I cam across.

I have a old Icom R7000 and the 1.2Ghz operation was not as I had expected.
I thought it was not working, but later found it was off frequency about
20khz.

-Stephen N.
KD6VEX






On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner <
glasbrenner at mindspring.com> wrote:

> If you have a 440 HT, listen for the third harmonic. That can tell you a
> little something about the receiver at least.
>
> 73, Drew KO4MA
>
> > On May 17, 2016, at 10:53 PM, Greg D <ko6th.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > Are you sure it's not working?  I thought the same thing when I got
> > mine, only to find out there was nothing transmitting in the area, and
> > nobody listening either.  The only repeater, the one I had been trying
> > in vain to bring up, had been turned off some years earlier...
> >
> > Looking around, I found the KJ6KO beacon in the Central Valley, and
> > found it, weak, off in the distance, behind a hill.  Then AO-51 turned
> > on mode LU, and all was clear.  Being in the foothills, straight up was
> > the only reliable direction for line-of-sight communication.  Tx and Rx
> > were fine.
> >
> > If a Ham pushes PTT in a forest and there's nobody around to hear it...?
> >
> > Greg  KO6TH
> >
> >
> > Christopher Maness wrote:
> >> I have a fully equipped FT-736R.  The other module works in the radio.
> There is white noise (sounds like it is working) on 1.2GHz, but it does not
> receive or transmit on this band.  Is there a common known issue with this
> module failing in such a way?  Any tips would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Chris KQ6UP
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-- 
Stephen Nelson
斯蒂芬・纳尔逊
スティーブンネルソン
KD6VEX