The IC-756 ProII in my opinion is BETTER than the newer IC-7300 and many other radios. But this is definitely not a deal breaker. With a menu/numerical, I could simply set it to 15, 75, or whatever setting/power I needed. With a knob instead of a menu numerical setting, I have to test power out before transmitting into amp. I use different amps, and each requires a different amount of input RF power. Everything is basically on the front panel. My only complaint, but it's strictly a personal thing, is that I prefer a menu to change output power instead of a knob. Excellent mic audio with mic gain and Compression. make this one of the best receivers I've ever had. Isolates noise superbly and allows me to hear QSO's that my Yaesu loses in the noise. Couldn't be more please.įull power out 105+/- watts. I was able to get this one mint condition for $800. A ProII if you can find them is still around $1,000. New, the ProII and ProIII are close to $2,900. Unfortunately, customers are still very proud of their used IC-756's and the price.

When first produced, it was one of the best radios on the market. While I was doing the work, I modified the 756 to add the use of the 60m ham band to it's range of transmit frequencies.The IC-756 ProII is an excellent radio.

Wow.was I ever relieved to hear this!īob and I worked the deal, the faceplate assembly from his 756 arrived at my doorsteps this morning, and it's already on the rig and looking good as new. I was about to send the front of my rig to him to have his new display kit installed (I couldn't possibly handle all the SMD soldering and such), when I got a message from Bob wa8ulw stating that he had an old 756 that had been struck by lightning and that it had a good display. In recent years, a ham Richard Rosenberger PA7FA in the Netherlands designed a replacement display for it. I continued to put up with the problem, and it continued to get worse and worse.to the point where I could almost not read the display and had to rely on HRD and a CI-V interface to read some functions and frequency on the computer in the shack. They came out with the Pro-series 756's, and had no displays for the repair of the $2500+ radio I bought in '95. It has been a great radio, except that the display began to fail a few years ago and Icom would not support it.

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