Hi Phil.

Well, it makes you a better SWL!

--Lou K2LKK

At 03:14 PM 1/4/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>Well, for Christmas, I purchased the Icom R75 receiver.  Man, I can't
>believe I spent that much money on just a receiver but I am still a big time
>broadcast bander DX sort of a guy.  I can now take the loudest A M broadcast
>station in Denver, K O A on 850 Khz, and tune just 10 Khz up or down and
>copy weak out of state signals.  My Sony 2010 could never do that.  By the
>time I purchased two additional filters for CW and the voice card, it nearly
>touched 900 dollars.  I had a little 25 foot piece of thin wire running
>around my office here in the house for several days and it worked well.
>Today, however, we might end up with 8 inches of snow.  The last time they
>said that, we ended up with 32 inches of snow.  So, last night, my son
>pulled about 80 feet of wire off my roll and tied the middle of it off at
>about the 40 foot level of my tower.  Sure made a big difference.  No, the
>speech doesn't say everything you would like it to say but so far, I've been
>able to figure everything else out and it isn't all that difficult to
>master.  The speech reads S meter readings, the frequency, and the current
>time.  You can turn any of these readings off in the menu but unfortunately,
>the menu does not speak at all.  I use the Kenwood v7a 2 meter 70 centimeter
>rig with the voice card and it is the same way, of course.  That is, it
>doesn't read anything in the menu settings.  You can, with either radio,
>interface them to the computer and make all the settings you want but that's
>too much work for me.  Frankly, I found the R75 receiver easier to learn to
>set up than the v7a dual band radio but that just could be my advanced age.
>So, I finally achieved my desire of owning a big time general coverage
>receiver.  I wonder if that makes me a better ham now?
>
>Phil.
>K0NX

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