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Assaulter
| | Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 11:40 pm: | 
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Anyone used this rig? Is it good for shortwave/cb/pirate listening?
73's |
Bruce
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 8:18 am: |
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I work on icom radios and all i delt with have been good quialty The ic-718 is very low priced a excelent buy for a begining ham very wide band should make a first rate shortwave radio
icom page.....
http://www.icomamerica.com/amateur/hf/ic718main.html
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Ca346
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 10:41 am: |
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I own an ICOM706MKIIG, and it is an exceptional rig, but this is probably what you are needing to read:
"http://www.mods.dk/index.htm"
Click on ICOM and go down the list.
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Tech8541
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 7:35 pm: |
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like the army ranger's motto... 'icom leads the way'.
icom makes high quality communications gear. the failure rate on their products is very low. i have worked on both motorola and icom radios and the icom have a lower failure rate in -my- opinion. i think one reason is because many motorola products are made in china where production is cheap and quality is..well not the best. icoms are designed and made in japan where workers take more pride in what they do. when compared to the kenwoods and vertex, i can't comment because i don't have enough experience with those.
i do not have any experience with this rxer, but from my experiences with their LMR(land mobile radio; police, fire, etc) and ham equipment, i feel that this rxer would do you fine. i do have experience with the icom r5 rxer. for a cigarette pack, its 1250 ch's rx like a champ. |
707
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 8:58 pm: |
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it's good and i think they are giving the DSP away with it for free right now. |
Assaulter
| | Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 9:34 pm: |
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is it pretty good as far as 11m transmit & recieve? I know it has a 6khz filter for narrow as far as the specs.... |
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