In the Atlanta area the IC-706 is quite popular but most of those guys there
that I talk to avoid 2 meters and their 706's were'nt bought for the 2m
option. They might use 146.52 on it around hamfests. As far as the receiver
and transmitter on it appears to perform well on HF and 6M. I did hear
from several sources that on the 706 if one were to put the 2m antenna too
close to the 6M antenna the RF saturation from the 6M transmit would overload
the GASFET RX amp transistor and take it out but that could happen to
separate 6m and 2m radios. This can be corrected with a mobile 50W bandpass
filter or one of those mini crossband duplexers. I think some dealers are
throwing in the duplexer with the purchase of a 706 to avoid having the radio
come back with a bad 2M GASFET. On my Alinco DR-150 I use the 2m cables of a
crossband duplexer to keep my Azden PCS-7500 from desensing 2m in the car and
it appears to work well for the close proximity of the antennas. KE4GQE
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