Anyone tell me how these are for general and ssb reception please
thanks
Rikk

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:31:02 GMT, "Rikk"
wrote:

Anyone tell me how these are for general and ssb reception please
thanks
Rikk


Pretty sucky. ICOM's lost weekend.

WRONG!

It's kind of a cost-reduced R71, not as many features, but overall a
pretty nice set. It was panned by the critics because it was not a
bigger-better set than the R71 it replaced, but I had one and liked it.
Performance on par with an R75.

Did Mr. "pretty sucky" actually own one?


"David" wrote in message
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On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:31:02 GMT, "Rikk"
wrote:

Anyone tell me how these are for general and ssb reception please
thanks
Rikk


Pretty sucky. ICOM's lost weekend.

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:16:26 GMT, "John Black"
wrote:

WRONG!

It's kind of a cost-reduced R71, not as many features, but overall a
pretty nice set. It was panned by the critics because it was not a
bigger-better set than the R71 it replaced, but I had one and liked it.
Performance on par with an R75.

Did Mr. "pretty sucky" actually own one?


I would not buy a ''communications receiver'' without an RF Gain
control and defeatable AGC.

http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/1193

http://www.dxing.com/rx/r71a.htm

"Rikk" wrote in message
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Anyone tell me how these are for general and ssb reception please
thanks
Rikk


With regard to the R72........................................
Would I find much improvement over my dx394
rikk

I've had 3 R-72s and really liked them (wish I had kept one!) Not as
feature "packed" as the older R-71A or R-75 but definitely an order of
magnitude better than a DX-394. I would have to rate them pretty close
to the Yaesu FRG-100. A very "solid" receiver in my experience. Were
poorly rated due to the excessive price when they were new.

Frank
K3YAZ
Tucson