[Icom] Icom IC-211 (was: Orion)

[Dave Wood]

Gang, It is interesting to follow threads such as the one on the IC-211 and 
other vintage radios with technical issues.  The IC-211 and others in that 
era are "good performance/used price" sets to consider, but probably only 
for the technically adept.  Certainly not for the plug-n-play crowd.  The 
challenge of hunting down 20 or so intermittent platting connections is the 
fun in it for me!  73 Dave



At 03:01 PM 3/13/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi, Jerry, and everyone else,
>
>I hope you don't mind me crossposting this to the Icom reflector.  What
>you've written (and I've tried to expand on) is a very good description
>(and one far more detailed and technical than I could have given) of the
>defects in the IC-211 and other Icoms of the same vintage.  Considering
>that there are folks on the Icom reflector considering these as good
>used rigs to buy, I think it needs to be seen there.   Besides, this is
>
>
>Take a good look at eHam, eBay, or a large hamfest.  There are a lot of
>IC-211s still in service.  I still hear them on 2m SSB now and again.
>Many have had the repairs made, but many have not.  It's impossible to
>tell which are which and if an owner of one of these is less than honest
>you can end up with a doorstop, or at least a tedious repair job.  The
>performace of the IC-211 really isn't that awful if everything works.
>That's a huge "if".  Methinks saving a few more pennies and buying newer
>technology makes a whole lot of sense.  That, or else buy older
>technology.  The ancient, analog IC-201 and IC-202/S were reliable and
>had very nice receivers indeed.
>
>73,
>Caity
>KU4QD
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