A friend and I tore into the receiver, but the ultimate “fix” in my case was to leave the receiver powered up continuously for almost a week. The manual is large and it is expensive, but it also is complete. Ultimately I bought the service manual for the receiver, the only item which Icom would sell. I don't know whether he has changed his mind about it. Tim said that he would not touch the receiver either (at that time) since he also could not get parts for it from Icom. I then called Tim Moes at his shop and asked him for help. Curiously they were still servicing the earlier R9000s! Icom simply would do nothing to support the 8500. I first called Icom America and learned that they had just discontinued all parts and service *totally* for the R8500. Several years ago my R8500 developed an electrical breakdown somewhere in the RF chain, leading to unstable howling oscillations and no reception.
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