[ICOM] ICOM PRO II VS PRO III

[Jerry Flanders]

Well - actually, some of us haven't yet seen any reason to sell off the 
original PRO. I had the original 756 before the PRO, and there were lots of 
good reasons to get the PRO, but I have studied the II when it came out, 
and now the III, and I am not sure I see any real differences between the 3 
that count in RTTY contesting (my interest).

At first, it looked like the III would hear better, but now it looks to me 
like the ARRL testing didn't agree with ICOM's advertising claims. Maybe I 
misinterpreted something in the ARRL data.

Jerry W4UK  Owner of two 756PROs.

At 13:23 3/2/2005, Michael W Elliott wrote:
>Has it really been worth the bucks to upgrade from the
>PRO II to the PRO III??
>
>Seems like Yaesu when they came out with the Mark V
>did not do such a great job on the improvments that it
>marked the extra price with the features.. The
>Ft-1000mp IMHO is still better.
>
>Incidently the dealers are fast running out of the PRO
>II.  AES has a few left.
>
>For those who have the PRO II and PRO III side by side
>what major differences have you seen??
>
>Is it really worth the $900 bucks??
>
>Another tidbit the yen is up and the dollar down and
>look at the IC 706 now selling for $949 bucks.  Wow
>
>Your thoughs please..
>
>
>
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>Michael W. Elliott