"Bill Crocker" wrote in message
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The IC-R7000 came out around 1986. The IC-R7100 was around 1991. I think
the 7000 had a better build quality, than the 7100. The 7000 had
florescent
blue-green display on a black background, the 7100 had black LCD with
amber
backlighting. The 7100 scanned a little faster than the 7000, but they
both
scanned too slow to really qualify as a "scanner", in my view. Many of
the
7100's had the cellular band blocked. Most all the 7000's were wide open,
but I do recall in it's last year, or so of manufacturing, a few 7000's
were
sold that were blocked. The blocked versions were undesirable, not so
much
because they lacked cellular, but because they were missing a lot of the
800MHz band that was still legal to monitor. The 7000's internal A.C.
power
supplies ran really HOT! The 7000's also had capacitors that failed after
about ten years, and would require replacement.

That's about all this old fart can remember.

Bill Crocker

Because of the above information, which is the most comprehensive I read so
far, I will look for a used R-7000. It's remarkable how many sellers do not
know if their 7000 is blocked or not. What is the best way to ask them test
their rig to see if it's blocked. Thank you.

Cordially,
west