[ICOM] ProIII and TX5C

[Jan Robbins]

I'd hold on to the 781.  The old 775 I had did lots better than a ProIII.

Mike Olbrisch wrote:
> I find that an interesting comment.  Perhaps the IC-781 isn't going anywhere for
> a while yet.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
>> [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jan Robbins
>> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 6:43 PM
>> To: ICOM Reflector
>> Subject: [ICOM] ProIII and TX5C
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>> Boy, it is really amazing to see how badly the ProIII's are 
>> working on SSB at TX5C.  You can see great--top of the 
>> world--performance by the CW guys, while the poor SSB guys 
>> are sitting around waiting for the AGC to come down to the 
>> point where they can hear at least a 20-over signal.  
>> CW rates are three to four times the SSB ones or more, 
>> because the SSB ops are twiddling their thumbs.  I thought 
>> this had been shown in any number of previous DXpeditions, 
>> but I suppose if you are offered free radios, you take 'em 
>> even if they can't do the job.  Doesn't ANYONE know what a 
>> roofing filter is and why it matters?  They would have been 
>> better off with 765's.
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