You are right about the Icom 706. Frontend "broad as a barn door!"
My rover station has much filtering on those bands to greatly reduce
interstation interference, which helps when at locations with lots of
"non-ham" RF! Nothing works on "in-band" noise, except DSP!
The local channel 13 transmitter noises up 222 Mhz here terribly...
Not only that, someone is making something that just hammers the heck out
of the 23cm band... Get into a populated area and see what I mean...
Eric
KB7DQH
> Don't sit under a water tower. I didn't give this any thought, but the top
> of the water tower is prime space for antennas, and there was a whole lot
> of
> intermod! Not sure who was using the systems, but 2m, 220, and 432 were
> very
> noisy in spurts, and I had to work around these spurts to make contacts. I
> think it was the local fire department, because it was quiet, then really
> noisy for a while then it was quiet again.
>
>
>
> Just a thought I wanted to share. I know Tom, K9TMS, sat under the same
> water tower and didn't have similar results, maybe706's just are not as
> sharp as his radios!
>
>
>
> Joe Serocki, N9IFG
>
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>
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