[Icom] Using PBT on the IC-756 PRO 2

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Hi to all that read this.

I have owned my pro 2 since Dec/01. Last week, during the IARU(ssb) contest, 
I used(tried) the PBT and think I maybe missing something in operation or 
maybe expect it do something more than it can do. Yes, any contest can be 
pretty brutal for
congested bands and interfering signals close by signals so it may not be 
fair to judge the PBT capabilities of the pro 2 to harshly.

I first set my pro 2 for a 2.1 bandwidth and sharp filter mode. While 
listening to a station on say 14.200.00 and having another station 
transmitting on 14.201.75, I thought that by using both controls together  on 
the PBT and shifting to the left or right side, I could pretty much reduce 
the interference from that other station(14.201.75) by shifting the passband, 
as displayed on the lcd. It seemed to me that by moving that PBT,  just 
muffled the interfering station and/or increasing the pitch of the 
station(s). I may not be to exact here, as it was very early in the morning 
and I was quite tired. I am going to try to find 2 stations that are very 
close and experiment again with the pbt controls. It won't be contest qrm, 
but hopefully close enough to try. Yes, I know some of you are saying, during 
a contest, who has time to fiddle with all that, as its just work em and move 
on. I know, but wanted to see the capabilities of the pbt and I was done for 
that contest.

I also tried to use one of the 2 controls on the PBT, but found that mainly 
all it did was to further reduce the passband, say from 2.1 to 1.6 and of 
course the narrower the pb, the less intelligable and higher pitched the 
signal becomes. At least to my ears, anyway.

Thanks again to all that read and reply.

vy 73's... 
Larry.. N2LH