Purchased a used Icom IC-735 that arrived today. Seller said it worked fine. I used to own an IC-735, so I'm pretty familiar with them, but it's also been a long time and maybe I'm just forgetting something basic. When hooked up to either a dummy load or an antenna, there is zero transmit signal. When the mic is keyed, the meter pegs hard left, and won't budge with any voice level or mic gain or RF power setting. Monitoring from a Tecsun shortwave received nearby, there is absolutely no signal. Receive seems to work fine.
Not a huge deal if this sounds like it's dead as it has a 30 day return. But I just don't want to go through the trouble of returning it if I'm missing something basic here that would cause it to not transmit. I'm thinking it could be something as simple as a bad mic, or something as bad as a blown PF.