{"id":52961,"date":"2022-06-15T06:01:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T10:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52961"},"modified":"2022-06-07T06:01:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T10:01:46","slug":"servicing-older-icom-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/servicing-older-icom-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"Servicing older Icom radios?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mark Irish, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Icom America has indicated that it no longer services Icom radios manufactured after December 2010. Please let me know if you have a recommendation for someone who repairs older Icoms, preferably in DC metropolitan area or in North Carolina and in Virginia. Thank you, Mark<\/p>\n

Thank you,<\/p>\n

Mark Irish<\/p>\n

Thank you for your question, Mark. <\/strong>You’re in luck because my friend Vlado (N3CZ)<\/a> does repair Icom radios of pretty much any age.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He has extensive experience with Icom, but also routinely works on Yaesu, Kenwood, Elecraft, Sony, Panasonic, and numerous other brands. If it’s solid state (meaning, not vacuum tube or valve gear) he can fix it.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Vlado lives in Asheville, NC, but he has customers all over the world. You can reach him through his website at: http:\/\/hamradio.repair<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Irish, who writes: Icom America has indicated that it no longer services Icom radios manufactured after December 2010. Please let me know if you have a recommendation for someone who repairs older Icoms, preferably in DC metropolitan area or in North Carolina and in Virginia. Thank you, Mark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[2884,9847,4547],"class_list":["post-52961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","tag-icom","tag-icom-repair","tag-radio-repair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dMd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16250,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/icom-ic-r72-a-repair-story\/","url_meta":{"origin":52961,"position":0},"title":"Icom IC-R72: a repair story","author":"Mehdi Asgari","date":"December 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In this post I'm going to tell you how I repaired my Icom IC-R72 receiver. 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