[ICOM] Operating Icom's

Thu Nov 11 16:49:38 EST 2010

I use eBay or qth.com


  Mike
  KK2DOG
  Owner/Admin 
  www.hamwave.com


> From: wb9pnu at charter.net
> To: icom at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:34:09 -0600
> Subject: Re: [ICOM] Operating Icom's
> 
> Gary,
> 
> My best luck with selling is on www.eHam.net classifieds.
> 
> 73, John WB9PNU
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Gary P. Fiber
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:56 AM
> To: ICOM Reflector
> Subject: [ICOM] Operating Icom's
> 
> 
> Gordon,
> 
> I am usually generating QRM on 40 meters generally I check into the Noon
> Time net on 7268.50 MHz when I am out and about.
> I was on 20 meters a couple of weeks ago or so and chatted with a fellow
> in Washington, DC then heard another and he was sitting on a mountain
> top in Alaska waiting for the sun to get right to do some photo shoots.
> All from my truck, HS1800/Pro and my 706MKII. Good sunspot activity is
> wonderful for a pip-squeak mobile signal.
> I have since picked up a little digital voice recorder for mobile logging.
> I'll have to look up the 10 meter repeaters and see if the little
> 706MKII or when installed the IC-7000 plays there.
> 
> When you folks get ready to sell some surplus rigs, where do you sell it
> at other than on this list, which seems to work good too.
> I'll check out the rigs before I let them go I have a HP-8656B sig gen
> and a Drake W-4 and Telewave 20 to 1000 MHz meter wattmeter,
> Optoelectronics counter along with a 100 watt RELM flat load.
> 
> Gary K8IZ
> 
> On 11/11/2010 7:39 AM, J.Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT wrote:
> > Gary,
> > OK, live a little and get on the air. Make some noise! It is like 6M
> > before every HF rig started to include it. Now there are guys on 6M all
> the
> > time, both on FM and on SSB/CW. It is a beautiful thing!
> >
> > Thanks& 73,
> > Gordon Beattie, W2TTT
> > 201.314.6964
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On
> > Behalf Of Gary P. Fiber
> > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 6:22 AM
> > To: ICOM Reflector
> > Subject: Re: [ICOM] New shipment of IC-746Pro's at AES
> >
> > Gordon,
> >
> > I can probably count on one hand the times I have used 10 FM discounting
> > using it for antenna tuning.
> > About a million years ago I purchased an add on board for my Icom 730 to
> > allow it to do FM from N9DBX as I remember at the Dayton Hamvention in
> > about 1984 or so.
> > I got around to installing the little circuit board and amazing the
> > IC-730 also sported FM. I played with that for a couple of years.
> > Before i sold the rig in about 1990 or so, sold to a guy I knew as Diz
> > on the old CompuServe HamNet Icom forum but have forgot his call, I
> > removed the board and think I included it with the rig but Diz did not
> > want it installed.
> > I bought that IC-730 new at Dayton in 1982 along with an IC-2AT I still
> > have. Dug out my LDG - Z11Pro tuner, need to look at the batteries I
> > installed them in 2007 but it still seems to tune ok I don't want one to
> > leak.
> > Had some Duracells still in the retail carton that leaked, they were the
> > 9 volt type.
> >
> > So nobody had to modify their IC-7000 mic for better audio as I got no
> > answers that's good.
> >
> > AES should buy more Icom products its the busiest I have seen the forum
> > in a few weeks.
> >
> > Gary K8IZ
> >
> >
> > On 11/10/2010 9:12 PM, J.Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT wrote:
> >> Gary,
> >> The 7200 is off my radar...
> >> It has no FM Duplex and Tone capability, yet it is advertized as an
> EMCOMM
> >> radio. Heck, my little IC-703+ has those capabilities and memory
> > functions
> >> as well!
> >>
> >> Thanks& 73,
> >>
> >> Gordon Beattie, W2TTT
> >>
> >> 201.314.6964
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> > On
> >> Behalf Of Gary P. Fiber
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:49 PM
> >> To: ICOM Reflector
> >> Subject: Re: [ICOM] New shipment of IC-746Pro's at AES
> >>
> >> I thought about a 7200 for the truck but its a bit big for me to mount.
> >> Pretty nice rig, I was doing the demo on it at Dayton this past year.
> >>
> >> Gary K8IZ
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11/10/2010 9:17 AM, gil Kellersman Jr wrote:
> >>> Actually AES is at $999.95.
> >>>
> >>> -- On Wed, 11/10/10, D C *Mac* Macdonald<k2gkk at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> From: D C *Mac* Macdonald<k2gkk at hotmail.com>
> >>> Subject: Re: [ICOM] New shipment of IC-746Pro's at AES
> >>> To: "Icom Forum"<icom at mailman.qth.net>
> >>> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 12:03 PM
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> What is the current street price of the IC-7200???
> >>>
> >>> I already have a non-Pro IC-746 that pleases me greatly.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> * * * * * * * * * * *
> >>> * 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 *
> >>> * (Since 30 Nov 53) *
> >>> * Oklahoma City, OK *
> >>> * USAF, Ret (61-81) *
> >>> * * * * * * * * * * *
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> * "An unarmed man can but flee *
> >>> * from evil. Evil can NEVER be *
> >>> * overcome by flight FROM it." *
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:51:20 -0800
> >>>> From: gilkell13 at yahoo.com
> >>>> To: icom at mailman.qth.net
> >>>> Subject: Re: [ICOM] New shipment of IC-746Pro's at AES
> >>>>
> >>>> Dick a very good point, they are just feeling out the market...At
> $1500.
> >> they might sell them...
> >>>> --- On Wed, 11/10/10, Dick Flanagan<dick at k7vc.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> From: Dick Flanagan<dick at k7vc.com>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [ICOM] New shipment of IC-746Pro's at AES
> >>>> To: "ICOM Reflector"<icom at mailman.qth.net>
> >>>> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 10:57 AM
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I wonder if AES is planning on a Christmas special with that boatload
> >>>> of 746Pros? They are basically a decent radio and if AES were to
> >>>> offer them with a $500 discount coupon or some such they would
> >>>> probably sell them out. Under the circumstances, you just know they
> >>>> bought them for a good price.
> >>>>
> >>>> Dick
> >>>>
> >>>> At 06:49 AM 11/10/2010, someone wrote:
> >>>>> There are literally 100's of used 746PRO's available for sale all the
> >> time.
> >>>>> The current average selling price on eBay is around $900 to $1000 mint
> >> with
> >>>>> boxes. I am sorry there is no way a sealed unit could be worth much
> > more
> >>>>> than this in reality.
> >>>> --
> >>>> Dick Flanagan K7VC
> >>>> dick at k7vc.com
> >>> ----
> >>> Your Moderator: Dick Flanagan K7VC: icom-owner at mailman.qth.net
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> >>>
> >>>
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> >
> 
> 
> --
> Gary Fiber K8IZ
> GROL PG-19-6691 with shipboard radar endorsement
> Washington State resident
> 
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