[VHFcontesting] ICOM

[John K9IJ]

At 10:07 PM 4/18/2003 +0000, jon jones wrote:
>"Vox Clamantis in Deserto" writes:
>
>>In the ad, Icom seems to take a dim view of VHF/UHF weak signal operators:
>
>>"* HF or HF & 6M only.  Icom's engineers focused on the bands that really
>>mean the most to QRP operators. A VHF/UHF rig is called a HT!"
>
>>"A VHF/UHF rig is called a HT!" is actually italicized.  It is the only 
>>italicized text in the ad.
>
>I just received my May 2003 QST and saw the ICOM ad for the '703 too, Ken.
>6 Meters is a "VHF" band, ICOM! And there is considerable QRP activity on
>2 Meters and up. I use an old IC-490A for QRP SSB/CW on 70 cm and have worked
>over 1,000 miles with it to Florida on tropo. It is definitely not "a HT."
>
>Is is disappointing ICOM's ad writers would make such a statement. What were
>they thinking?

Everybody going to Dayton should stop by the ICOM booth and explain to them
the definition of an HT, the fact that they haven't made a VHF/UHF SSB 'HT" in
many years, and that the 703 has nothing really new to offer to the 
marketplace.

JOhn - K9IJ


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