[Icom] $8000!!!

[Matt Erickson]

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>A prospective IC-788 buyers "wish list".
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>$8000.00 !!!!  The ham screams!  But I want it for a hundred dollars, and
>I'll complain about it even then, he says.
>The "self-important" ham states that he deserves the highest level of state
>of the art, bleeding edge technology, but we don't want it to cost much more
>than the trusty old Drake I used as a young lad.
>I also want it to transmit at no less than 15KHz on SSB, and the DSP should
>remove 100% of the power line noise coming from the 350KV line that runs a
>few hundred yards from my shack.
>The receive audio should be sweeter than my $12,000 Yamaha stereo.
>The rig should be able to run on any type of power source I choice to plug
>it into.
>An RF power output of somewhere between 300-800 watts would be a real plus,
>but 200 would do, in a pinch.
>The ATU must be able to tuner my 2 meter beam on 160 meters with 0% loss!
>It should be self-cleaning too.
>VGA display, hummm, 17" should be OK, bigger if possible.
>No menus! They are far to hard to understand!
>Oh yea! Lots and lots of crystal filters too...
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>But, I'm not going to pay more than $300 for all of it, and it better work
>the first time I turn it on, and continue to operate for not less than 75
>years, with zero failures of any kind, that includes the problems I caused.
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>Now, it that to much to ask a manufacturer to do for US?
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