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how much should i be looking to pay for one of these? whats their price range?

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seen them on fleabay fetch up to £500 6 months old.£400 with no warranty.
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i just paid £430 delivered, should be here by the middle of the week. its got serial-usb adapter and the comp to radio lead, cant wait to try it out emoticon emoticon emoticon

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good price you wont be dissapionted.i wide banded it myself its the first time i opened a radio.
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this one is already done so i wont have to go in there, i have heard they are pretty easy to do. now i need to get myself another SWR meter that has good coverage 0-30 be a start as i dont think i'll be using much above that

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it has a built in SWR
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what and it actually works some sense?? emoticon blimey i am suprised, ive never trusted built in swr meters. how accurate is it? oh and prepare for loads of questions icom 706 related as i'm sure there is goin to be loads of things i want to ask emoticon

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Internal SWR meters are perfectly ok on most HF sets, no need for another insertion loss emoticon

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ah i se, it must be just cb ones that say what they like. i can se i have more antennas to buy/make now, gotta have a listen on all the bands

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the only down side to 706's is they dont half drawn the juice,so watch when out mobile ????run mine off separate battery,110amp leisure.
catch ya soon for report,
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