Re: how do R2 die?

Short of doing as you suggest, this little radio is practically 
INDESTRUCTIBLE!


--- In [email protected], Dan Jacobson <jidanni@d...> wrote:
> Let's start my first message to this group off on a morbid note: 
how
> did your last IC-R2 die before you bought another one? (or else you
> wouldn't be still here reading this)
> 
> I mean what should one _not_ do that I should watch out for.
> Ok, if not the whole radio, which of the keys fails first? Yes, I 
hear
> that belt clip and antenna connector might go sooner...
> 
> Or maybe there is some data that wouldn't produce a Clone Error, 
but
> instead actually harms it for good?
> 
> P.S. Priority watch: I hate the 125 ms dropouts every 5 sec while 
it
> checks the other station.  They seem to come just during the 
critical
> parts of the main conversation you are listening to.
> 
> PS/2 what if I'm tired of batteries and weld transformer wires to 
the
> battery contacts.  I suppose I need a 'torid' to wrap around the 
line
> in or else I will hear transformer hum?  Maybe change the Subject 
if
> you just answer this.
> 
> PS/3 anybody use a program to get frequencies like 300 Khz into a 
9khz
> model? http://uk.geocities.com/blakkekatte/clone/icomclonedoc.pdf
> doesn't explicitly mention that range below 495 khz. How low can 
the
> radio really hear in this unadvertised zone? 
> 
> P.P.S. I will investigate the mailing list nomail option, as I 
read this
> on gmane.recreation.radio.hardware.icomr2 on gmane.org NNTP server.
> -- 
> http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780


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