[ICOM] IC-706 Programming

[Mike Morrow]

It is very painful to almost everyone.  If you follow all of the steps in
the book, it works but even then it takes lots of practice.  They certainly
were not thinking when they did that part of it!  NOT THINKING AT ALL!

It does work but what a pain.

Mike/W6XXX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Eimer" <ad5pe at familynet.net>
To: <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:33 AM
Subject: [ICOM] IC-706 Programming


> Greetings,
>
> I'm helping an elderly ham install and set up a -706 Mk II G in his Jeep,
> and I've run into a problem with programming it.  HF works fine, but I
can't
> for the life of me figure out how to program an FM repeater (2m and 70cm)
> into it, and then get them into a memory.  The problems are getting it to
> take the proper repeater offset, and to transmit the PL tones.  The manual
> seems rather vague on parts of this process.
>
> Anyone who has experience with this radio - your help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jay Eimer
> AD5PE
> Tulsa, OK
>
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