[Icom] For Sale: 756PROII

[David J. Ring Jr - N1EA]

Mac,

Solution?  Sell the older rig.

With the PRO2 you have a new band - six meters - and this band has been very
active recently.

Try parking the receiver on 50,099.0 KHz and make yourself some new DX QSOs.
I've worked Europe and Arizona with a dipole this year.  I like Aurora
QSOs - they remind me of spark.  (Yes, I used spark - a back up transmitter
on a ship used it...)

Try putting the DSP on the PRO2 on during mid summer QSOs and rotate the
"intensity" control to change the amount of processing.  Your OMNI 6 Plus
has DSP but nothing like this.

Your ears will appreciate this if you come from Zero Land - because you guys
have QRN that blankets 80 meters and 40 too during the summer.  Try
operating 40 (or 80 meters - or even top band) with the PRO2 for an hour:
then try the OMNI - you soon find the difference.

When conditions get tough, you have the option of actually changing the
selectivity - you can go down to 50 Hz and get razor sharp rejection skirts.
I know that an expert ear can copy CW through tons of moderate QRM with a
2.8 kHz filter - but with SEVERE QRM it makes the difference between copy
and no copy.  I know I am a former commercial radio officer - if got those
trained ears.  This receiver works.

All those controls means you can change the waveshape of the sent CW.  You
can make the rise and fall times faster - resulting in easier to copy code
at QRQ - or make it quite soft for a pleasent 20 wpm QSO.  (I remember KFS
had very soft keying on 17026 kHz - lovely to copy but when the "hot shot"
operator came on at 35 wpm, he would be too fast for the transmitter - but
lovely to copy at 25 wpm.)  (No, the PRO2 won't make you sound like a bell
like he did.)

I think the PRO2 is the best bargain in ham radio today - except perhaps for
the IC-706.

I urge you to at least keep it a while longer so that you see what I'm
taking about.  YOU deserve this rig.

73

David Ring, N1EA



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Kr01a@aol.com>
To: <icom@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Icom] For Sale: 756PROII


> Hi All,
>
> Regarding my previous For Sale posting.  I've received several
> offers that include partial "trades."  I probably should have
> included that I have no interest in any trades in the original
> posting.
>
> I've also received a number of messages suggesting I stick with
> the learning process on the PROII.  I want to thank those that
> took the time to write but this is not causing me to drop out
> of ham radio or anything that drastic after 50 years as a ham.
>
> My present station also includes an Omni 6+ and a backup
> Omni 6 that I use for HF CW where I spend 98% of my time.
> I admit that the PROII seems to have lots of interesting features
> but most of them relate to phone or digital activities where I have
> no interest.  I bought it to see if I would consider it a significant
> improvement over my Omni's but I haven't seen that it can do
> anything that I really need that I cannot do with my Omni's.  I
> guess what I am trying to say is that I am very comfortable with
> the Omni's and would prefer to spend my spare time operating
> rather than spending it reaching the same comfort level (if ever)
> with the PROII.
>
> Once again, thanks for your kind offers of help and moral
> support but guess I just prefer the simpler life :>)
>
> 73, Mac, KR0I
> Kansas City, MO
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