[ICOM] Re Icom Issue

[Don Graham]

   Hi Duane,

   I can be brief on this one!

   The original ICOM 756 does have the display flaw described.

   Having  bought  the  radio  new,  I had to replace my original display
   after  a  few  years  and  now  the  replacement  is  showing the same
   intermittent lines.  :-((...

   I have obtained yet another one to instal but have not done so as yet,
   so  cannot  say  whether  it  will  be any better in the long run as I
   understand it is a "refurbished" one from ICOM.

   There  was  supposed  to  have been a substitute sourced in Taiwan but
   I've  been  unable  to  verify if those were other than a very limited
   run.

   You could be lucky!

   73...Don VK6HK

   >  I  have an Icom 756 that I bought used in August 1998. It has never
   given me

   >  a  bit  of trouble. The many Hams I know with the original 756 have
   not had

   >  the  issue described below. Nor have I heard it mentioned among the
   Hams I

   > know who use Icom equipment. Which is 'not' to say it is untrue, but
   it does

   >  make me wonder if the issue is perhaps "inflated to a higher level"
   than it

   > should be?

   >

   >  Is  it  perhaps  caused by user errors or is it a factory flaw that
   lurks,

   > waiting, and then ZAP! A done deal, not "if", but "when"?

   >

   >  I  would  appreciate  the  "facts",  preferably  from owners of the
   original

   >  Icom 756 with experience. However, all with factual based input are
   very

   > welcome!

   >

   > Duane Fischer, W8DBF

   > dfischer at usol.com

   >

   > Message sent to Duane from interested buyer:

   > Yesterday I spent a good part of the day doing what research I could
   into

   >  the  756  vs. 756 Pro.  Comparing the sets and reading everything I
   could

   >  find.   They both sound like good radios (better than anything I've
   ever

   >  had),  but  the  earlier  "Plain  Jane"  one has one big problem or
   issue.  It

   >  tends to develop "blue horizontal lines" in the display screen that
   makes it

   >  difficult  to  read (one man said his had 12 lines).  Occasionally,
   leaving

   >  the set on 24/7 will clear it up, but not often.  From what I read,
   it's

   >  less  a  matter  of "if" it develops the lines, but "when" it will.
   Icom no

   >  longer  has any displays in stock as Sanyo who manufactured them no
   longer

   >  makes  them.  Icom says they will "try" to repair existing displays
   at 250.00

   >  a  pop,  which  you  pay  whether  they're  successful  or not (and
   apparently most

   >  of the time they're not successful).  A lot of bad feelings towards
   Icom out

   > there over this "issue".  So, if I had a choice to make, it would be
   the

   > "Pro".

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