"jimg" wrote in message
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anyway....thanks to you all....
i bought a new icom r-75 on ebay for a great price and already ordered
all the kiwa mods. craig also gave me a deal here as well. when i told
my wife i wanted to bid on the r8 too, well, you know....so i got the
whole thing for $500usd.

in the end i wanted the adaptive dsp on-board. i know the r-75 IF
fltr(s) and adj chnl performance are not as good as the r8 and the
r-75 sync det sucks without the kiwa pll loop filter mod. the
sensitivity specs are damn close and only slightly better than my
r-1000 which i have decided to keep.

it sounds like dxace and others have owned both, and i probably
screwed up big time...someday, i hope to get an r8b and compare
station by station....but i'm sure they're right...

what is wild is that there are so many subjective and definitive
comments when performance parameters like
selectivity/sensitivity/bandwidth/attack times/etc...are matters of
documented performance. you'd think there would be some clear criteria
based on the specs as the receviers have become more
sophisticated....not so....

thnx again...for those dedicated to the r8, chalk it up to stupidity
on my part and you already know i'm gonna regret it...for those who
favor the r-75, chalk it up to slick marketing...after the kiwa mods,
i've read nothing but glowing comments.


jimg
Oregon
USA

You're going to love it once you get used to using it and it's features. I
guarantee you'll haven't heard SSB and Hams this good till you've tried the
R-75. And the ECSS is just superb. Hook a good antenna to it and you're
going to be up late nights

Check out Phil's CookBook in the Yahoo newsgroup files section. Great place
to start besides the manual.

Have fun
Lucky