While the PRO is good, I find that I can work a DX station on the Omni
VI+ while I'm trying to get the whistles to blow and the bells to ring
on the PRO.
In the mean time, with the OMNI, I'm off working another DX station.
FYI: I've used both as a 10M IF for the EME station. I hear signals on
the OMNI that I can't hear on the PRO.
73
Bob K4TAX
George W5YR wrote:
>
> Nathan, I have to echo your statements based upon my experience with the
> PRO over the past several months.
>
> But, I would take minor issue with the notion that the spectrum scope, dual
> receive, keyers, etc. are "bells and whistles." Maybe a few years back they
> would have been considered as such, but any "current" top-line radio should
> have those capabilities. They, and the other features of the PRO, are now
> just as vital a part of my operating tool kit as the more customary
> features that we all discovered a few years ago and have come to expect on
> a quality radio.
>
> I am *not* saying that the OMNI VI is not a good radio - it is just a very
> different radio from the PRO in its design and implementation. The PRO and
> the tools it provides happen to fit my needs almost perfectly, and with
> nearly 56 years of knob-twisting to look back upon, I have worked up some
> pretty good "needs." <:} I am sure that many others feel exactly the same
> about their OMNI VI!
>
> But, "bells and whistles?" Nope, not any longer . . .
>
> 72/73, George W5YR - the Yellow Rose of Texas QRP-L 1373 NETXQRP 6
> Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe
> Amateur Radio W5YR, in the 55th year and it just keeps getting better!
> Icom IC-756PRO #02121 Kachina #91900556 IC-765 #02437
>
> Nathan Moreschi wrote:
> >
> > The IC 756 PRO is a far better radio than the OMNI VI. I owned and OMNI VI
> > for seven years and loved and recently upgraded to a PRO three months ago.
> > The DSP filtering is awesome as is the spectrum scope, dual receive, cw and
> > voice keyers and all of the other bells and whistles. I loved the OMNI VI,
> > but it is old on a technology basis. The rig for me is the PRO.
>
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