[Icom] Extensive 756 Pro II Review

Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:05:00 -0600

George-

Thanks for the info. I think I was a little hard on the reviewer because he
may well have been giving his honest opinions. I still consider you and Adam
Farson--and a select few others--to be the Icom "guru's". Sandy Sandberg,
N5NBW, has been in contact with Adam off list and learned that Adam gets to
Dallas from time to time. Sandy and I (and some other locals) would love to
take you and Adam out to dinner for a good ICOM "brainpick" next time Adam
is in Dallas. BTW, rumor has it an $8,000 plus 781 replacement is nearing
completion and announcement with transceive capability up into the gighertz
range--the Pro may at last have some competition! :-)

Andy  K5VM

----- Original Message -----
From: "George, W5YR" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Icom] Extensive 756 Pro II Review

> Andy, I just finished the review and am, to put it mildly, astounded at
the
> guy's "findings" re the PRO II.

> I do appreciate the time and effort the gentleman put into the report and
I
> suspect that he was sincere in calling the shots as he saw them. I was
> gratified to see that he presented the links to Adam's website for perhaps
> another viewpoint and certainly as a source of technical information.
>
> Thanks, Andy, for asking my opinion. I wonder now how many people will
> agree with my assessment both of the review and my own observations?
>
> 72/73/oo, George W5YR - the Yellow Rose of Texas
> Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe
> Amateur Radio W5YR, in the 56th year and it just keeps getting better!
> QRP-L 1373 NETXQRP 6 SOC 262 COG 8 FPQRP 404 TEN-X 11771
> Icom IC-756PRO #02121  Kachina #91900556  IC-765 #02437
>
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>
>
> [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > Very weird review and seems to contradict all other advice about minimal
use
> > of the PRO pre-amp to get maximum receive sensitivity. I don't think
this
> > guy likes Icoms, period. Recent articles in ham magazines regarding DSP
> > radio tuning for maximum sensitivity contradict this guy's approach. Who
is
> > correct?? :-)  George?  Adam? thoughts? No preamp or "at least preamp
2"?
> > With my Pro, I seem to be able to get clearly readable SSB audio when
the S
> > meter doesn't move at all and I'm not sure what signal report to give
:-)
> >
> > Andy  K5VM
>
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