[Icom] Buy a rig or two .....

Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:03:44 -0600

I think that your experience is reasonably typical, Andy. I have had the
730, 765, PRO, PRO2 in the latest round of amateur radio and the only one to
ever grace a shop was the 765 which came from the factory with the fan
mis-wired such that it would not run. Everything else has been either no
problems at all or "I fixed it myself."

I forgot - I had an IC-280 back in the 70's that had to be replaced due to
more problems than even Icom could deal with.

With the desk now supporting a PRO and a PRO2, it had better be "no problems
at all" in the future since the days of "fixing it myself" are past!   <:}

73/72, George
Amateur Radio W5YR -  the Yellow Rose of Texas
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13QE
"In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!"

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Guess I may have been really lucky over the 12 years I have been hamming. I
have had a Kenwood 440S, Icom 756, Icom 775DSP, Icom 781, Icom 756 Pro and
now an Icom 756 Pro II. I have never had a single problem with any of the
rigs and have never felt the need to have a "backup" HF rig. Have I been
living on borrowed time or have others had similar experiences?

And my 4 year old Icom 4KL linear seems "bulletproof". Got it when I traded
a used Alpha 374a that had about 15 years of trouble-free time on it--I was
about the fourth owner of that beast.

Thanks, Andy  K5VM