[ICOM] eHam 2720 Reviews

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In a message dated 10/02/2005 22:37:32 Eastern Daylight Time, 
k2gkk at hotmail.com writes:

<< If you want .25 uV sensitivity over broad band,
 you   WILL   get intermod.  Wideband coverage
 seems to be what  MOST  buyers want.  >>

My first ICOM (an IC230) was larger than most contemporary radios and had 
only 10 watt output.  It covered 146~148 MHz and contained helical resonators in 
the front end.  With that radio, I never knew what intermod was.  It cost 
almost $400, new,  in the late-70's.

The demand for wideband coverage, low price and a small physical package all 
combine to give us the current intermod problems which we complain about.  The 
price of a current radio, plus a band-pass or notch filter, is still less 
much less than the (unadjusted for inflation) price of a VHF-FM radios of the 
70's and 80's.  A filter, when necessary, can be mounted between antenna and 
radio, even outside of the passenger compartment of the vehicle.  The total 
physical volume (radio+filter) is less than that of many older radios.  (Anybody 
else remember the size of the Clegg  VHF-FM transceivers?)

While I could live without broadband coverage,  I prefer not to and buy 
filters instead.  I like having a NWS receiver in the car as part of my VHF or 
V/Uhf transceiver.

Like so many other things, I get what I am willing to pay for.

73,  Blair k3yd