[ICOM] IC-7000

[Gary P. Fiber]

Now I get to ask instead of answering :-)

I just picked up an IC-7000 transceiver to replace my now 16 year old 
IC-706MKII. I am currently using an old Am-Comm antenna controller with 
my HS-1800 /Pro antenna and it works quite well..
  Most reports I have read say the tuner controllers meant for the 706 
series will not work with the IC-7000 even though the AH-2 through AH-4 
seem to work fine.

I am asking if any of you are using an automatic antenna controller with 
your IC-7000 and what make and model.
I see the Better RF controller is recommended by K0BG. I also see it 
requires installation of an adapter on the radio back along with another 
box for the antenna control. Then there is Turbo-Tuner, don't know much 
about that one though i have sent people asking about a controller at 
the Dayton Hamvention to look them up since I remembered they made such 
a device.

I also have read about doing a mic audio modification to the HS-151, any 
of you had that done or did the one published on mods.dk where you 
actually build a preamp?
K0BG says his findings were merely setting on the rig for good mic 
audio. I have a Heil Traveler headset I have not used yet so maybe 
that's better than the stock mic but then you loose the controls.

OH by the way I was WRONG...I had made some statements about amplifiers 
and FCC ID numbers referring to 24 - 28 MHz operation not needing FCC 
approval.
I had forgot that clear back in 1978 the ruling that 10 meters came 
about.... my mistake for not looking up FCC Part 97 rules.
Though the FCC does not test amateur radio transmitters they did want to 
about amateur radio HF amplifiers.

-- 
Gary Fiber K8IZ
GROL PG-19-6691 with shipboard radar endorsement
Washington State resident