WA2EHZ Icom IC-706 Tuner Mod Part 2

 The Postie arrived Thursday bringing with him an envelope containing the resistor and capacitor I've been waiting on to get the tuner mod built.

Soft wired to test

Testing this initially led me to think I'd buggered it up. It just didn't work. Some fiddling around later and I remembered that the radio was in Memory mode rather than VFO. The only reason I even noticed with the bizarre behaviour of being stuck with a split frequency when having been in memory mode and having been on a repeater. 

Fix that ID-10-T error, and bam! The Tuner button now works. 

Off to the shed for a quick solder job, then a round with a lighter to shrink the heatshrink. I really should buy something else for that.

There is actually heatshrink under that insulation tape... it just decided to not grab the molex as well as I'd like. Sealed up.. ready for action.

And that's it. A couple of dollars worth of resistors and capacitors - and that's only because I wound up with quantities rather than one of each, plus the molex off an old 4pin standard size to floppy adapter I've had floating around since prior to the IC-706 being built. 

You may note the fan sitting there - I'm still not game to do the fan mod to this radio yet, but keeping this fan on top is helping dissipate reasonably well, even with the tuner sitting on top of it.