[Icom] Rig advice

[Tony Hwang]

Hi,
Not a factory mod but tracking sidetone mod for CW op, PIN diode mod, 
PBT mod comes to mind.
765 is still good radio.
73,
Tony, VE6CGX

Larry wrote:

> Graham,
>
> I agree with you however there are some special circumstances. I live 
> in Seattle 300 feet from an electric bus system intersection which 
> means lots of monstorous bursts of rf from bus feelers skipping off 
> the overhead wires. Which in turn generates a lot of QRN.
>
> I borrowed an audio DSP system & the noise-limiter function did an 
> excellent job removing the noise. But, because that puts it outside of 
> the AGC system, the IC-765 tends to get overwhelmed.
>
> By the way, you said "get the factory upgrades". I live about 9 miles 
> from Icom so, if I keep the 765, I could get those upgrades. What are 
> they? I'm not aware of any.
>
> Thanks
> 73 - Larry W�NFU
> larry_w@attbi.com
>
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