[Icom] IC-745

[Dave Karle]

The 745's will suffer from the plastic trimmer cap syndrome in time (vco's 
go crazy etc). this is especially evident in the 745's with the internal 
power supply (heat is aparently an accelerator of the problem).  If the 
lithium ram memory battery fails the radio forgets that it is a radio and 
has to return to its maker for reincarnation.  Roberto Nardo makes a 
replacement board that is user replaceable and works good as a permanent fix.

For its time this radio is quite good, has one of the best noise blankers 
around, a good recevier a bit high on phase noise but that never bothered 
me until I used better (much better) radios.
If you have the chance to "test drive" the radio for a few hours most of 
the problems will be quite evident if they exist.
73
WB8AUK

At 10:22 PM 2/22/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Some misfortune has left me with no Radio Equipment (Long Story)
>I want to get back on HF at least and have the chance of a 2nd Hand
>IC-745 with the Auto ATU, I have looked on Eham and it seems to get
>really good reviews for an old Radio, I know there are the Eprom
>battery issues, but otherwise I would appreciate anyones info of this Radio
>I know very little about it, it has the FM board with it as well
>Adrian
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