[Lowfer] HiFERs NC and GA in OK?

Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:11:59 -0700

Hmmm, yeah that does suprise me.  But I do not have a 706;  I have an ICOM
718.  And it does very well.  If you wish to have a reasonably good HF
transceiver for other uses, atleast consider one.  For the price, which is
often just over $500 during sales and promotions, I am happy.  Very good
stability and clean TX for my digital modes.  Sensitivity is so-so on LF and
very adequate everywhere else.  I hear the west coast Loran very well<G> and
some of the 25 watt NDB stations in the 200-400 kHz region around the west.
Using a piece of wire that rates somewhere between god-awful and
you're-not-serious, are-you as an LF antenna.  Somewhere I have (I think ;-)
some Argo plots of a cold start against WWVL for 12hrs.  If you wish, I will
look for them.

Now the downside....if you want to run Argo on 185.300, you can't go up on
7070 and run psk31 or mfsk16 in the evenings<G>

Gary WA6DTX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] HiFERs NC and GA in OK?

> Hmmmm...I think you guys may have tried to tell me that before.  I don't
> think I remembered that the IC-706's stability was that lousy.
>
> I believe it, though.  Everything I've tried so far sucks as soon as I try
> to go much slower than 3 sec dots.
>
> ok..sold.  Now if only _I_ could run across one for $375 ...
>
>
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Bill Ashlock wrote:
>
> > Eric says:
> >     I think I've decided on the IC-706 over the R-75 ... since the $$
are
> > extremely tight I like that it is a transceiver for about the same $$ as
> > the R-75 ... but admittedly, not as nice a receiver :(
> >
> >
> > Have you asked any of the LF guys owning an IC-706 what they think of
the
> > QRSS30 to 120 performance? Might change your mind.  Sometimes the R75s
show
> > up on the used market for $375.........
> >
> > Bill A
> >
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