[CQ-Contest] IC-746PRO -- evil incarnate or not?

[Igor Sokolov]

Indeed 746PRO has serious quality problems. My brother sent it back
for service already twice within the firs year of use. Now the radio
needs to be sent for service yet again. Almost everybody who has got
one ran into these quality problems.
I want to argue that 870 is better then 850. 870 relies entirely upon
DSP as far as filtering is concerned. As a result its close up
dynamic range makes 870 useless for contesting. Here I have 3 active
HP contesters within less then one kilometer distance. It was
absolutely impossible to operate contests here with 870 while I have
almost no problems with IC765.

73, Igor UA9CDC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat1242 at ispwest.com>
To: "Bill Coleman" <aa4lr at arrl.net>; "Kelly Taylor" <ve4xt at mts.net>
Cc: <CQ-CONTEST at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] IC-746PRO -- evil incarnate or not?


> I have just the opposite opinion. I've owned both the TS-850S/AT
and the
> IC-746PRO and would take the ICOM any day. The '850 has serious
leakage
> around the filters while the '746PRO has none at all. If you wanted
to
> stay with Kenwood, the TS-870S is a much better radio than the '850
> where filters are concerned.
>
> I will say the '746 has had some quality problems - mine went back
to
> the factory twice in the first couple of months, but it's been a
year or
> so since then and it's been perfect since.
>
> _______________________________________________________________
>
> Original Message:
>
> Bill Coleman <aa4lr at arrl.net> wrote:
> > On Mar 6, 2005, at 9:22 PM, Kelly Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Seriously, though, the TS850 is a great radio. I'd pick it over
an
> > IC-746 any day.
>
>
>
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