Hi Phil.

If it is like most Icom radios, you'll never want the operating manual very 
far out of reach.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 09:56 AM 10/31/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>I was going to buy the Icom 706 from Ham Radio Outlet here in Denver, along
>with a number of other things, antennas and the like, and so I talked with a
>guy, faxed in my long list of add on CW filters, narrow SSB filters, voice
>card for the 706 and the like, and the guy at the store called me back to
>ask me some questions.  He told me that the 706 will only handle two filters
>of your choice but the 7000 had all filters built in including the speech
>card.  Plus, if you go to the Icom America sight and read about both rigs,
>you will see that the 7000 is a far superior receiver with filtering up the
>ying yang.  Furthermore, the 7000, purchased in the store at HRO, is 1300
>dollars.  The 706, with my extra filters, was going to cost me 1,350
>dollars.  Plus, Icom is giving a 50 dollar rebate on the HF radios right
>now.  So, I emailed John, who builds the QSYers, and he confirmed he could
>wire the QSYer keypad for the 7000 and strongly recommended I get the 7000
>instead.  The Digital Signal Processing, adjustable crystal filtering, not
>to mention the noise blanking capability, reads like a Star Wars movie.
>Anyhow, if you are going to spend 1300 dollars on a new radio, it is the
>better deal when you read all the filtering capability that is built in.
>Plus, I am a big shortwave listener, love hunting for beacons, love tuning
>the low wave bands below 500 KHz, and I have, my whole life, just about,
>been a big timer A M broadcast band listener for DX.  The 7000 is the CW
>operators dream beyond the imagination, but all
>that filtering for broadcast listening and shortwave listening is beyond
>anything I can imagine.  I never even looked at the IC 7000 because I
>figured it was one of those 7000 dollar radios, with that big model number,
>or at least 2 grand, which I couldn't afford at the moment, but I'm glad
>this salesman told me, plus I've heard others talk about the 7000 on this
>list.  The DSP description alone blows me away and I already have that in my
>Icom R75 receiver but have never felt it was worth bothering with after
>hours of trying it.  I hate learning new stuff, on the other hand, but this
>will be worth it.  It took me long enough just getting used to using and
>tuning the R75 receiver but I also noticed the 7000 runs 35 watts on 70
>centimeters instead of 20 with the 706.  No, that isn't any big deal but it
>is just one more improvement.  I like the recording ability, too, for
>contesting, calling CQ, or whatever you wish to record plus other incoming
>recording capability.  Anyhow, I just typed in a google search for the
>IC-7000 and found the full description, of course, on Icom America's site
>and the features list alone read like science fiction.  And to think I was
>in hog Heaven, as a novice 42 years ago, with a DX20 running 10 watts
>output, a 100 foot long wire and no tuner, and a BC 348 receiver with a 2
>KHz crystal filter that didn't filter anything out.  Just thought some of
>this might be of interest.  I'll report more once the antennas are on the
>tower, the amp is up and running, and the bands are opened, which could be
>11 years from now the way things are going.  Besides, it may take me that
>long just to learn how to switch this radio on.  I hope I don't forget the
>code before I learn how to use the radio.
>
>Phil.
>K0NX
>
>
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