[ICOM] ProIII and TX5C

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

And what makes you an authority on what they are experiencing when you
are not even there!

I have had no problem working them on SSB with my Pro III.  The biggest
issue I see them having is the constant calling on top of the station
trying to be worked even on CW.  No filters in the world make a
difference in that case...

Mike, W1NR


Jan Robbins wrote:
> 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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