So have had my 705 for a month, and I am super happy with it. Excellent receiver, good audio. Haven't made an HF contact yet but I've certainly give it my best shot. Today I was set up on 20M, and my mic refused to transmit. I removed the pic and put it back in, and it still refused to transmit. Buttons worked fine, and the mic had audio since it is a speaker mic, not no transmit. Jiggled the mic jack and the radio transmitted briefly and then refused to transmit. Sounds like a mic jack problem. Anyone else experience this? I will be calling Icom Monday to tell them the radio is coming back (I do not relish the cost of sending it back). Other than that this is a damned fine radio for the price. On a side note, good thing I held onto my FT817 LOL