[TenTec] re 756pro2 vs omni 6 plus

[Jim]

Saw just the opposite here.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kenneth m cubilo" <kce@freeway.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:50 AM
Subject: [TenTec] re 756pro2 vs omni 6 plus


> I had a chance to compare the icom and tentec radios side by side.At the
> risk of toe stepping keep your omni 6 plus, I found the icom 756 pro rx
> performance to be very user exhaustive, from my days as a commercial
> telegraph/telephone op a real measure of rx performance was how long you
> could keep the cans on your head without feeling like you wanted to pull
> your hair out. The icom audio was rough and to me tinny no matter how
> you adjusted the filters, the dsp well built up on a pedestal is no
> match for xtal filters nor can the icom pull out any weak sigs better
> than the omni in fact i give the omni a slight edge on weak sig work.
> sure the omni 6 plus doesn't have all the useless bells and whistles but
> when i purchased the omni I wanted a practical radio.I had recently
> listed my omni 6 plus for sale, but after hard thinking decided to keep
> it as I just am not going to find anything better.this is one radio you
> can listen to for a 48 hour contest without getting a headache and if a
> big gun parks a few hundred hz away from you with proper filters you can
> still dig out the weak ones.
> ken w8ob
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