[ICOM] 2 meter receive out on Icom 706

[Bob John]

This is because the 706 has an extremely poor receiver for 2 meters with low 
sensitivity and high intermod and is totally deaf off the amateur bands . 
The 706 was pretty much useless when it first hit the market.
Bob, AA8X

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Geiger" <johngeig at yahoo.com>
To: <icom at mailman.qth.net>; <ic706 at yahoogroups.com>; 
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Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 12:25 AM
Subject: [ICOM] 2 meter receive out on Icom 706


>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
>
>
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