[ICOM] eHam 2720 Reviews

[Robert John]

I also had the first IC230 and it was the best radio Icom ever built. The 
IC-2700 is total junk and the reason I would never buy another Icom product.
Bob, AA8X

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Ynkedragon at aol.com>
To: <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [ICOM] eHam 2720 Reviews


> 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
>
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