so I left a VX-3R in my shirt pocket and transmitted 5W about 6 inches away (yes, on the same frequency, not like it would matter to much)
now it seems that the receive in tiny HT is not so good anymore,
seems equally attenuated in the HF bands, 6M, 2M, and 440
attenuation is about 5 S units,
so mainly I post this as a warning to others not to do this,
but if anyone knows what part may have got messed up, I would love ideas on what to try changing first
there is a very tiny ESD protector chip right at the antenna input, maybe I fried it ? but the output of the radio is still perfect
maybe I fried the gate of the first mosfet, but would that just make it not here anything at all ?
I just don't have the experience to know the likely cause, and with all the parts so very small, I would rather mess with as few of parts as possible