I'm not a ham operator yet, but have been a listener for a very long time. I just was gifted one of these radios by a friend. From what I see here, quite an impressive radio. Need to make my license, but I would enjoy just tuning and listening too.
I am looking at purchasing a nice used unit from another HAM operator. I need a high quality portable all-band unit. I am looking to retire and do natural disaster support for agencies/organization using my diesel quad cab truck pickup with dual batteries for power. Great demonstration - you covered all of the key features. Thank you for taking the time to share this knowledge.
Nice demo. This is my first HF rig. I love it. I'm thinking about getting some filters to go with it. Hoping to pick them up at the next regional hamfest.
Thanks for the demo. I just got this radio, and also have its competitor a Yaesu 857D. It seems to be very difficult to come across a reasonably priced tcxo and filters for either radio. I'm curious though which antenna port does the AM broadcast use?
I am waiting (very impatiently I might add) for my 706 to come in. I am old school used to boat anchors with dip and tune. So I am not that familiar with menu driven radios. I am currently using a Yaesu 817 like the one in your video and I have learned the fundamental menu functions. Your video has shown me the the radio is simple to use. It is the best video I've seen so far ( haven't seen them all yet). I do wish you had spent some time demonstrating cw. I operate cw 97.8% of the time. I will disagree with you on one point. I am going QRO because my location is not qrp friendly. If circumstances were different it would be QRP to the grave. Tnx 73 de WB5HQO.
Hi there. I had not noticed before that the mic socket is under the front right side on that radio. it seems to be an unusual idea to have put it there. ?.
Yes. Probably because the designers ran out of space on the front. Actually, there is a second microphone connector on the rear apron (the same RJ45 socket) so you can plug in the microphone there as well.
a tip for the noise problem unplug all the power adapters in your room and cheap wacky LED lights or CFL lights get some high-quality LEDs or use halogen bulbs
If I run the radio from a 12V battery, and subsequently throw the AC main breakers to OFF (meaning the whole house is without power), the noise is still there, unchanged. The noise is not generated in my house. It comes from the 10kV above-ground wiring that runs through the street. It is the collective noise from all residential homes connected to it in the neighborhood. Unfortunately, here in the US we are to cheap to put 10kV AC cables under the ground. That's why I have this problem.
I actually recommend the IC-7100. It is a fabulous radio, it is what I replaced this 706 with. I need to make a video of it one of these days. It is SDR based, meaning you can make any filter bandwidth you want without having to buy filters. It also has a touch screen, and can handle all HF+VHF+UHF bands just like the IC-706MKIIG. And easily set for MARS/CAP operation. Last but not least, it has DSTAR built-in. Not the IC-7000 was the successor of the 706, the IC-7100 really is the successor of the 706. Cheers.
thinking about picking one of these up for PSK31 and other data modes, seems they've been discontinued for awhile now, is there a successor ICOM model, another affordable alternative, or am i basically looking at used market only?
I agree with Patrick Wall. The IC-7100 is a great radio, I own one now. I can recommend it. Digital IF filtering, touch screen and lots of other features. It also does not get as hot as the IC-706 (the 706 gets pretty warm even when only used receiving)
Hello I’m not sure if you still have this radio this is quite an old video I did not know the FL102 fitted right into the 706 is that true...Or does it have to be modded
A slight mod is needed on the main PCB. It is a long time ago that I did this and I do not have the radio any more, but you should still be able to find details about this mod on the web. The IC-706MkIIG is an excellent radio, but the designers went out for lunch on this AM (and FM) filter issue. The stock AM and FM filter is wide as a barn door with also a lousy shape factor. Applying the FL102 in combination with the mod fixes all that. Cheers.
Item 4 in the radio's settings menu (called "back light") allows you to set the brightness. See page 50 of the IC-706MKIIG user manual. You can download that manual from the Icom website. Hope this helps.
Hi. friend of mine has one of these and it appears the freq counter is about 10 kcs off, any ideas anyone, he hasn't got clarifier in or split button. from Fred g4vvq in England.
Same for everyone remember ssb the carrier is suppressed so the reading will be an average if you change to a mode with a carrier cw am fm youll find a consistent reading more near your set power output because it has a consistent carrier.
There's a Priority mode (p.44) that will watch a frequency while scanning but I don't know that it works while listening to another frequency. There are two independent VFOs though. You could set VFO-A to an FM frequency and VFO-B to any ham frequency and then manually switch back and forth quickly.
@@TexnikMain A home made vertical, 24 ft long with the base at about 20 ft high. Tuned with a Collins 180S-1 coupler from inside the house . The antenna withstood hurricane Irma (a cat-2) without problems a few years ago. Ian, which hit us with almost cat-5 strength, turned out to be too much unfortunately.
These are not manufactured anymore. They are/were better than the subsequently released IC-7000 in my opinion. As for power levels, "L" outputs a little under 5 watts and "1" a little over 6 watts. Inasmuchas the final transistors for these radios are not available, I NEVER run my 706 any greater than than level "8" or about 80 watts so as save the finals. Word to the wise.
