[ICOM] re: 706 on HF

[Hart]

I have been using my 706mkIIg for the past year with an mfj 989d tuner, butternut vertical and a Ameritron amp. For HF use I find that this rig has a serious design flaw and that is there should have been a manual notch filter on it. The ANF is ok but it is only good for filtering out operators who tune up or cw transmitions. Living here in the city you get a lot of buzzing noises and it would have been nice to have that manual notch to zero out these types of problems. The other is that the DSP filters are not really all that good when the bands are noisey, you have to get yourself a DSP unit that runs in line with the audio out. Other than that the radio is an all round good rig. The radio does tend to heat up but that is normal for these types of all band compact rigs to that.