"Martin Ewing" wrote in message
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Hello,

I am doing market research for a new HF rig, and the Icom IC-746pro
would be a leading choice, but I'm worried about the "no transmit" and
other problems discussed at length on the web.

Of course, you take your chances whenever you get a new high-tech toy.
My question is how does the '746pro stack up against the competition in
terms of actual failure rate and reliability? This is something the
manufacturers are keenly aware of from their warranty data, but they
probably aren't going to share it with us. :-(

Most of us don't see enough different examples of enough types of rigs
to have first-hand data, and anecdotes on the net are hard to calibrate.
Given the bad press on the '746pro, I am pretty leery now, but if it's
really only a small percentage of units that are affected, I might
reconsider.

How would you decide?


I picked one up about 6 weeks ago, liked the price with the
recent promo. So far I rather like it :-) As far as I could determine,
the various problems you refer to occur only on earlier serial
number 746s. Check with me in a couple years about the
failure rate ...

Do I like it as well as my Kenwood TS-850?
Not sure yet. Certainly don't like the 746 less than the 850,
but I'm not yet certain I like it better.

Mostly CW DXing and SSB ragchewing.

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... Hank

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