[ICOM] Icom 756PRO as a CW contest rig

[mschellur at earthlink.net]

Hi Larry,

What rigs do you recommend for CW contesting?

Best and 73,

Mike KF2LF

-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry Young <k4lxv at bellsouth.net>
>Sent: Jan 2, 2011 11:15 AM
>To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [ICOM] Icom 756PRO as a CW contest rig
>
>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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