[Icom] Icom 740 comments

[John Geiger]

Lately I have seen some good deals on Icom 740, and am
thinking of getting one of these radios.  Most of the
comments I see on eham.net mention how quiet the
receiver is, and how well the NB works.  It seems like
most of the newer equipment I have had gets pretty
noisy in receive, and on current Icoms I don't think
the NB switch is connected to anything.

Can anyone verify these good points to the 740? 
Anything bad I should know about, other than the lack
of general coverge receive, which I dont consider a
bad thing.  It doesn't seem that this model had the
trimmer caps problems of later models.

Having owned a 720 and 730 in the past, I missed the
green LED readout and the solid feel of the icom
switches.  A rig with a band and model switch?  What
will they think of next?

73s John NE0P



	
		
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