Hi Eric, Well, re the 703, and 703+, Gary lee, in IN, who's on this list,
has one, as does Ron Miller, in FL, who's still on here I think.
Jack Mcspadden in AR, and I've had one, and we both liked it, you can
control it nicely via computer, and honestly, you can do pretty well with
the millenium QSYER, and a lil patience.
The ut102 speech board is nice, but will only give you freq, S-meter
reading, and mode read out, and you can get mode and freq readout with the
updated/giving CW read out, qsyer, so you may not need to spend the around
50 bucks for the speech board. Icom had some issues,/(keyjack grounding and
or lack of it, and a couple of other problems some of which resulted in
blown finals and other weirdnesses,)that they finally admitted and offered
to fix for free in both the original 703, and 703+ units/don't know if
they'll still fix them for free or not, /likely will, but there's a good
group/Yahoo reflecter I think, that's got a lot of helpful stuff.
John's definitely right about the HRD and interface suggestions. There's a
radio shack scanner programming cable/the nomenclature of which I forget,
but I've got in some of my old email,I'll go back and find it if you wish,
//Iposted it to the blind-hams list when I got it...anyway, it was a
radioshack scanner programming sirial cable that RS closed out for less than
five dollars, that'll work just fine with a computer and HRD, to do a "Jam
Up And Jelly Tight/to quote an old Tommy Rowe song, job of interfacing, and
for a hundred dollars or so less than the Icom interface. Of course that
interface will work with more than one radio, so I've been told, , so I
guess that's one reason for the costliness of the Icom Interface. Check
with your local and not so local ham store, watch Universal Radio and other
places/get on the Yahoo 703 group, and advertise on the eham.net, qth.com,
qrpl, hfpack and ft817 lists, you'll likely find one of those rigs
somewhere. And when you find it, you're gonna find that That tuner's about
the best in-rig tuner you've ever run across, I know it's about the best one
I've ever experienced HTH, Danny.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Clegg" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 7:37 PM
Subject: Icom IC703 Questions
> Does anyone on the list use an Icom Ic703 Plus.
>
> I'm considering getting one of those rigs if I can still find one!
>
> I already have a Millenium Qsyer keypad and will probably get the speech =
> board for the rig.
>
> I have some questions.
>
> Can the rig be controled via a computer? And if so, will Ham Radio =
> Deluxe work with it.
>
> If I do get this rig could someone the list give me some pointers for =
> using it.
>
> A few years ago I had planned to get a Ten-Tec Argonaut IV and read the =
> digital display with an Optacon.
>
> Of course, by the time I made up my mind the rig had been discontinued.
>
> I'm going to try to not let this happen with the Icom.
>
> Emotionally I still like the idea of getting a Yaesu FT817ND for qrp =
> work but what has sold me for now on the Icom IC-703 is the built in =
> tuner the speech board and the fact that one can program the rig's =
> memories using the Millenium Qsyer keypad.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> If anyone wishes to call I can be reached on evenings and weekends at:
>
> (916) 444-3158
>
> 73,
>
> Eric
> KU3I
>
>
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