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Good places for repairing ICOM IC-2720H?	Reply
by KI4YTF on May 9, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Greetings everyone, Fairly new to the ham world, and so I'm wondering if I can lean on the knowledge of the community for a bit. I've got an ICOM IC-2720H that is having some problems. In all likelihood, it's the final transistors, since I'm gathering that's a known issue with these, and since the characteristics of the problem (Tx power falloff, continued power drain) are consistent with it being that. I've contacted ICOM about repairing it, but at ~$90/hr plus shipping and parts, it's probably not worth fixing it through them. And I'm having trouble, it seems, finding another worthwhile shop. So, anyone have any recommendations? I'm in NC, so something fairly close would be nice, for shipping costs/time, but not essential. (of course, if someone could offer advice about what it takes for this radio to be properly user-serviced, that would be useful, too.) While I'm at it, was there ever a mod or flash for this radio that introduced alphanumerics? Anecdotally, I'd heard that it was an intended feature, just somehow got missed, so in theory the memory architecture could support it. Did anyone ever manage to get it in? Regards and thanks to everyone in advance. -KI4YTF

RE: Good places for repairing ICOM IC-2720H?	Reply
by W3LK on May 9, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
<< I've contacted ICOM about repairing it, but at ~$90/hr plus shipping and parts, it's probably not worth fixing it through them.>> I doubt that you are going to get it repaired much cheaper anywhere else. 73, Lon - W3LK Naugatuck, Connecticut

RE: Good places for repairing ICOM IC-2720H?	Reply
by KI4YTF on May 11, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Thanks for this. I certainly hope that I do manage to do better, but hope is just that, so I'm also going to presume you know what you're talking about. And in that case, I have a feeling I'm fast approaching a scenario where the cost of getting this working wouldn't stack up against putting the same money into a new one. I believe that's called a "total loss." Here, for sake of what's likely a transistor, that's like one of those silly totalings where an old car's airbag just went off for no reason. I could be wrong, though; does anyone have any real figures on how much it cost them to repair one of these? Alternately, is it worth trying to do repairs myself? It looks like pretty tight surface-mount architecture, which is a bit above my skill (and tool ownership) level, but if I'm just going to own a brick otherwise, even a temporary fix wouldn't be a net loss. Has anyone tried it?

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by N4ATS on May 12, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I would be happy to take a look at it for you free and at least let you know what needs done. www.n4ats.com N4ATS Bill

RE: Good places for repairing ICOM IC-2720H?	Reply
by KU4UV on May 23, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Try Scott Malcolm with MTS.

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