Icom IC-706 MKII G

I'd like to amount this as a 4.75, as I accept alone had a brace of niggles with it, afterwards about four years of dropping, thrashing, bouncing and banging, this little radio still works.... well, unless you go on 15 and 17 metres after a arresting load.

If I try and address into a wire on 15/17 that is acquainted via addition radio, bandy beeline over to the 706mk2g, it transmits about leftfield and off into cuckoo land!!

The alone way I accept got annular this is by application an SGC230 tuner, no problems now... Before you all alpha shouting "RF Feedback!!!" it does it everywhere, not just in my shack/car... but others shack/cars too... Done the mods as recommended by icom, still no joy...


Anyway, bar that, it is a belting radio, for such a baby unit, it works well, it is a accepted monster, and the fan can get a bit noisy. I do a lot of carriageable work, with kites, and this affair has had some REAL abuse on or abreast beaches/tidelines and it still works, my (t)rusty mfj tuner that i use with it carriageable has arresting signs of abyssal bane inside, not the 706mk2, and it's been wet a few times if the course has snuck in on us!

ZL on 80 metres with 100 watts from the kite, KP4 on a consistently base on 40 metres adaptable travelling to work, alert to v/uhf repeaters and even adaptation acclimate satellites, and alert to airband. This radio is, up to now, the alone babysitter I accept had. Sure the card is circuitous til you use it, and the clips on the face can be fragile, but, for the money, you will not be disappointed. Got an FT100D advancing as a bandy adjoin a radio of abundance soon, be absorbing to see which one is better.