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HI folks,

DOn't know who was asking about the 2720, but we had one in
the radio room at University hospital.
THe 2720 is difficult to access, and ours acted squirrelly.
FOr some reason ours decided without any intervention from
any human anywhere to start demanding a ctcss tone on
receive when we only had one set up for tx.  IT operated
flawlessly through the hurricane and its aftermath.

My xyl was trying to help me with something on that radio
and with herbig hands ended up punching about every stupid
button on that control head when trying to reorient it one
day.  NEver did get it totally set back to rights.  Had her
scouring the manual for the great microprocessor reset
control so we could start over from square one but never did
find it.

From her reading the manual to me I can tell you the manual
is not well written and finding information you need in it
is  therefore a pain.

PErformance wise the 2720 had a decent receiver and
delivered clean audio to the transmitter, but I didn't
really like the rig from a user interface standpoint.
Exeternal speakers improve the audio by leaps and bounds,
the internal speaker sucks swamp water btw.  tWo of those
radio shack mobile communication speakers, the old ones not
the new ones did the trick there.

IF this is for an eoc or something similar you're better off
with another brand.  SOmething like the v7a would be a more
versatile choice imnsho.

ON the subject or lemons I've got a Kenwood tm-261a in my
van which resembles that too.

Btw our 746 at the hospital decided to eat its transmit
final power
amplifier when there were but two days on the warranty.
THat's one reason I took my old antique Icom 740 to the
hospital with us when we deployed for the storm.  Also had
my old trusty rusty mfj ant tuner.

Liked the 746 pro even without speech, but wasn't fond of
the 2720 at all.  Icom gets an F for usability on that rig
from this operator.


73 de nf5b geratol 2472
Richard WEbb,
Electric SPider Productions,
Eads Tennessee


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