[ICOM] IC-7000 i Is There Anything You Don't Like???

[Dan Gaylord]

Mike...
   I think I'm doing this off-reflector, since opinions are like fannies, 
everyoone has one, or sometimes 2 & I don't have the time to sift thtough 
all the good stuff that comes across my e-mail... but I may be the only 
one... Hi!
Re the 7 K,  It's the greatest thing to come down the pike since peanut 
bread & jelly ! Period! The PBT, dual notch filters, the ... everything is 
just peachy!   I use is mostly mobile CW and it's the living end.
   Compared to the 756 Pro II I use in the shack, It will do some things the 
pro won't.  There are only two things that make it a bit of a challenge (for 
me, at least...)
Getting to be an old timer, my attention span/concentration abilities seem 
to be getting shorter and the learning curve for all the menues and sub 
menues was/is a bit steeper than it would have been when I was a kid, and 
you definately don't want to drop the rig in the car and motor on down the 
road expecting to take advantage of all the bells & whistles on the fly... 
With that being said, once you get the feel of the 'flow' of the menues and 
know how to get to the feature you need at the time, it gets easy.
   Noise of any kind tends to disappear when you twiddle the knows... 
signals jump out of the noise floor.  The system does wonders for QRM/QRN 
right up to and almost including the LID who zero beats YOUR DX station on 
YOUR frequency(HI) and spends 20 minutes trying to tune his antenna and load 
his 3 KW.  If the guy is off freq even a few, you can uually clear him right 
of the picture.
  For a mobile application, the biggest drawback (not the lease bit of fault 
for the radio) is the antenna system.  I use a screwdriver manufactured by a 
guy up in the part of the world from Brush Prairie, WA.  I picked the KW 
verision because of the efficiency, and it is somewhat narrow and needs to 
be re-tuned if you qsy to any real degree.  But boy, oh boy, when you get 
the ant tuned, sit performe like nothing you've ever seen short of a huge 
array at the home stn.
   There has been mention of some sort of 8 khx signal issue, but I haven't 
noticed it on mine.
   Guess what I've been trying to say is that it's a superb rig! It even 
surpases, in most areas, my '56 Pro II, and that's a lot to say!
   Let me know if you have any more questions and I'll do the best I can to 
answer them.
73 & CU on the bands!

Dan
W7IDG
 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Crestohl" <W1RC at Verizon.net>
>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:58 AM
Subject: [ICOM] IC-7000 i Is There Anything You Don't Like???


>
>   I am considering purchasing one and would like to know anything
>   that  you  as  an  owner  don't  like  about the radio.  Are there any
>   service
>   issues, bugs, glitches, etc.
>   Thanks for your wisdom.
>   73,
>   Michael
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