[Icom] Icom 740 comments

Sun, 25 Apr 2004 07:45:45 -0700 (PDT)

I would say that the 740 is one of the best radios
Icom has ever built along with the 751A and the 765.
They are clearly a cut above all the other Icom radios
and they NEVER break. Good luck.
--- John Geiger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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