[ICOM] PRO III VS PRO II

[Massimo 'Max' MUCCI - I8NHJ]

Hello group,
Yesterday I got my PROIII and during the night
I made a cheek-to-cheek test with my old PROII.

I'm not an in-deep electronic technician and my test was
based just on what and how I can heard signals through the
bands from both the radios.

Well, I have to say that rarely I found a so clear
difference between two radios. The PRO III seems to belong to
a different class. Any signals in both CW and Phone are
always much readable, solid and clear. Moreover the S/N
ratio improves using the preamps while the feeling from the
PROII, in the same condition, is just a S-meter reading
improvement.

The noise blanker from the III is impressive,
very efficient.

I noticed also that, at last, the AGC works much better, just as it should.

The overall impression is the PRO III sounds like an old
tubes radio equipped with all the new digital solutions.

For me, it worths the extra money I spent.

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73 de Max, I8NHJ/NH7CU
one of EL2PP, 1A0KM, JT1Y, E30GA, T77V, TT8MM, T32R, K5K, XR0X, S05X