[ICOM] 2 meter receive out on Icom 706

[Peter Markavage]

Check to see if the "yellow wire" mods were done to the rig. These were
well documented  in the "early " days of the 706 to improve reception in
the VHF range (excluding 2 meters). Maybe something is screwed up with
those.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 22:25:51 -0800 (PST) John Geiger <johngeig at yahoo.com>
writes:
> I picked up an Icom 706 original off of ebay last
> week, and the HF and 6m side is working great. 
> However, the receive is extremely low on 2 meters.  It
> is putting out the full 10 watts, but I can just
> barely hear a couple of the local repeaters, and tried
> a SSB QSO with a friend across town and couldn't hear
> him.  Did a full reset and the problem remains.  The
> antenna and coax is fine as I am getting the local
> repeaters full scale on my Yaesu FT8900.  
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?  Any ideas as to
> what might be wrong with it?
> 
> 73s John W5TD