[ICOM] 775 prices

[Adam Farson]

Hans, Igor,

Just to throw in my twopence worth:

A properly-designed DSP IF filter system can be configured to sound
whichever way one wishes it to sound. I have no trouble pulling up weak SSB
or CW signals on any of the IC-756Pro-series radios I have owned over the
last 5 years (I now have a Pro3). I also had the opportunity to get some
"flight-deck time" on the IC-7800, which does those jobs even better from my
perspective. My next upgrade may be to a 7800, if I can justify it in terms
of the amount of operating I do.

I had to spend a certain amount of time re-learning the techniques involved
in adjusting a receiver to "squeeze out the last drop". On numerous
occasions, using the 756Pro series, I have been able to resolve, and copy,
signals which were so poor that they would have eluded even my old IC-781.
When receiving S9+ signals, I can adjust filter bandwidth and Twin PBT for
the most pleasing sound (at least to my ear).

"Digital" sound does not trouble me. Our wireline and wireless phone
networks are all digital, I only listen to CD's (no LP's or turntable any
longer in my home!) and am acutely aware that CBC Radio 2 FM plays digital
CD's into an audio chain which is digital right up to the baseband input of
the FM transmitter modulator. To my ears, it still sounds beautiful on a
good home audio system.

For me, the criterion in radio communications is more "can I understand what
the distant station is transmitting" than "how does the distant station
sound".

Cheers for now, 73,
Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ



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