Maintenance; Troubleshooting - Icom ic-450 Instruction Manual

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■ Troubleshooting

If your transceiver seems to be malfunctioning, please check the following points before sending it to a service center.
PROBLEM
The transceiver's power
• Power connector has poor contact.
will not turn ON.
• Polarity of the power connection is reversed.
• Blown fuse.
No sound is heard from
• Volume is too low.
the speaker.
• The volume level is set to 0 (audio muting).
• Squelch is set too high.
• A selective call or squelch function is activated
such as pocket beep or tone squelch.
Sensitivity is low and only
• Antenna feedline or the antenna connector has
strong signals can be heard.
poor contact or is shorted.
No contact possible with
• The other station is using tone squelch.
another station.
Cannot change the oper-
• The lock function is activated.
ating channel.
• Priority scan is paused on the watching
frequency.
Scan does not start.
• The squelch is open.
• Priority scan is activated.
POSSIBLE CAUSE

MAINTENANCE

SOLUTION
• Check the connector pins.
• Reconnect the power cable observing the proper
polarity.
• Repair the cause, then replace the fuse.
• Push
.
• Push
.
• Set the squelch level to the threshold.
• Turn OFF the appropriate function.
• Check, and if necessary, replace the feedline or
solder the antenna connector again.
• Turn ON the Tone Squelch function.
• Hold down
for 2 seconds to turn OFF the Lock
function.
• Push
to cancel the scan.
• Set the squelch to the threshold point.
• Cancel the scan.
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REF.
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