[ICOM] Re Icom Issue

[PA3DUV]

Yes, they are a different run, even a different source.
Contact Virgil Parker from Icom UK.
Virgil at icomuk.co.uk

Cheers, Dick
PA3DUV


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Graham" <degraham at people.net.au>
To: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>; "ICOM Reflector" 
<icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: [ICOM] Re Icom Issue


>
>   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?
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>   >
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>   >  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"?
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>   >
>
>   >  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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>   > ----
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>   > Your Moderator: Dick Flanagan K7VC, icom-owner at mailman.qth.net
>
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>
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>
>   >
> ----
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