low power

Hi All, I just bought 01 icom ic-v8000 mobile and it's having a strange behavior. Suddenly, the emitted RF power it's not going over 38W at 144-148 Mhz band. Useless to say that I checked whatever is related with antenna feeding, cabling, power supply and so on? Do u belive that is possible that...

Today and yesterday, while making my usual visits to the drive thru at breakfast, I've fired up the Signal Stalker feature of my new Pro-106. I searched the entire spectrum and watched as an attendant talked on hers not 5 feet from me, yet nothing was detected. (This was at a Chick-fil-A)...