[Hammarlund] RE: Early Super Pros

[DJED1 at aol.com]

Well, I'll venture my .02 worth, having had a BC-779 when I started playing  
with radio, and have had a SP-600 for several years now.  As band cruisers,  
they have a similar feel as you tune across the band.  The most noticeable  
difference is the tuning arrangement, where the '600 has no bandspread, despite  
having two tuning dials.  The main tuning dial read frequency, and the  other 
dial serves as a logging scale.  The tuning is geared way down, so  that you 
have to really spin the knob to cover several Mc (this is helped by a  weighted 
tuning shaft on the '600).  However, I think the tuning speed of  the '600 is 
uncomfortably fast on the upper three bands.  Perhaps OK for  SWBC, but 
definitely hard to tune 20M SSB.  They are similar in that both  require you to go 
to manual RF gain and increase audio to receive  SSB/CW.  I think the '600 is 
more stable than the BC-779, and it has the  advantage of double conversion on 
the higher bands.  I'd definitely  recommend having at least one of each.
Ed  WB2LHI
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