[ICOM] Icom 756PRO as a CW contest rig

[Larry Young]

John; Having owned both a 756Pro and now owning a ProIII, The 756Pro is a good cw rig, but  understand that any rig in cw contesting will perform better if a narrow roofing filter is available.The 756pro has another issue under strong signal conditions. Due to insufficient +8volt IF amplifier supply decoupling causing artifacts in the IF. This defficiency can easily be remedied by the addition of a 1000uf filter capacitor to the +8volt power rail. It has been written about and can be found on the internet.
  To be very competitive in CW contesting You may want to look at other rigs.
  Larry K4LXV.

--- On Sat, 1/1/11, John Geiger <aa5jg at fidmail.com> wrote:

From: John Geiger <aa5jg at fidmail.com>
Subject: [ICOM] Icom 756PRO as a CW contest rig
To: cq-contest at contesting.com, "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>, okdxa at mailman.qth.net
Date: Saturday, January 1, 2011, 8:47 PM

How does the Icom 756PRO do under heavy CW QRM?  Some of the eham.net reviews weren't very flattering in terms of CW performance.

73s John AA5JG
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