If the Icom radios were as accessible as the Kenwood radios, that's all I 
would use.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: IC735


> John,
> i too used a 735 a hundred years or so ago.  Good receiver; great
> Field Day rig.  There were memories - I used them for band edge
> marking - always had a reference point and could interpelate tuning
> knob turns to approximate frequencies.  Don't remember a whole lot
> else about the rig except it was pretty easy and straightforward.
> Pat, K9JAUAt 09:27 AM 7/29/2009, you wrote:
>>Hi John;
>>I used an ic735 about one hundred years ago and it was a fun little =
>>radio.  As I recall there wasn't a menu system to battle with.  At the =
>>time I believe the qsyer was made by someone else but a qsyer will =
>>definitely work.
>>Richard
>>
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>>   From: John J. Jacques=20
>>   To: [log in to unmask]
>>   Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:52 PM
>>   Subject: IC735
>>
>>
>>   Hi all, I have a chance to pick up an Icom IC735 at a very good price =
>>and
>>   I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this rig?  I =
>>know
>>   it doesn't have  a voice chip, but it does have a 25KHz marker, =
>>thouugh
>>   the switch is internal.  Does anyone know if it can be computer =
>>controled
>>   or if you can use a QSYer on it?
>>
>>   Thanks in advanced and 73:
>>   J.
>>   John Jacques
>>   Amateur Radio Station: KD8PC
>>   "Where Cat Is,  Is Civilization!"
>>
>>
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