Hi.

I love the synchronous detection on my Drake R8A and my Sony ICF-2010.  If
the Icom implementation is as good, it should be a really great receiver.
--Lou K2LKK

At 08:08 AM 1/5/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Phil,
>
>I'm always more comfortable with knobs and switches than I am with menus,
>which is why I like my 751A and am reluctant to change to something
>else.  Unfortunately, though, menus are the way of the world today, and if
>we want the newest features we just have to suck it up and learn to live
>with them to some extent.  I'll get just enough of a handle on them to
>change what I want to change, and leave the rest alone.  While I like the
>idea of using the computer to set things up, I really don't want to tie my
>radios to the computer.  However, I am interested in the R75's transceiver
>capabilities.  I have to read some more, but from the little I've read, I
>think it can be used to control my 751A, and that makes for some
>interesting possibilities, especially on AM where I want to use synchronous
>detection.  Lots to explore here.
>
>Steve
>
>On Tuesday 1/4/05 22:57 Phil Scovell wrote:
>
> >Steve,
> >
> >You have an individual set button which serves the purpose of getting into
> >the menu structure or switching between a long wire or coax antenna.  There
> >is no doubt that if a blind guy would memorize, or write down all the
> >various menu choices and how they would be changed, it could be done without
> >sighted help.  You use the same memory up and down keys on the bottom right
> >panel of the radio to make changes in the menu settings.  Like I said, I'm
> >sure you can do all that through the software but I'm getting too old to
> >screw around with all that software crap now.  Plus, I had my computer tied
> >to my transciever for years for different functions and it was a pain in the
> >butt horsing around and changing everything all the time.  I like just
> >grabbing knobs and pushing buttons.  I hate tuning rigs and amplifiers now,
> >too, so that shows you how old I'm getting.  I also refuse to climb my tower
> >any more for fear it might bend or buckle due to wait.  My weight.  Worse, I
> >might experience a heart attack while up there and they would have to call a
> >hospital rescue helicopter to come and get me.  How embarrassing.  I hope to
> >live long enough to own a good 80 or 90 foot crank up tower where I just
> >push a button in the shack and away she goes.  Then, and only then, I will
> >get me a 2 element 80 meter beam.  Of course, if we happen to have one of
> >those huge corona mass ejection's on the Sun that we had last year that,
> >fortunately, was faced away from the earth, there won't be any more ham
> >radio once that mass reaches earth.  I mean, when 100,000 square miles of
> >the surface of the sun blows out into space, you best be living way under
> >ground because it is about to get hotter than an Arizona summer.
> >
> >Phil.
> >K0NX

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