dxAce wrote:

John Plimmer wrote:

Wow! impressive. Thanks for that Ace (I forgot to look in "wideband")
Maybe if I tell the tooth fairy I want one she will tell farmer Christmas?
Or maybe the stockmarket will treble?
Or pigs may fly..................

I wonder if it will run as hot as some of their earlier offerings did.

I've always been somewhat leery of 'wideband' receivers. To me, 'wideband'
equates to 'compromise'.

dxAce
Michigan
USA



That's always been my thinking. Although, I have to say, that of the
widebands, ICOM has done a pretty creditable job of taking measures to
keep IF performance pretty close to what's required for performance.
Instead of the impossibly wide first IF's shared by the HF and V/UHF
stages found in many widebands.

IC-R8500 was pretty decent. Although the AOR direct competitors to
R8500 seemed to do a better job on HF.

My attorney had a pair of R9000's in his office. And I shouldn't be
surprised at how well it did HF. For the price, it should have poured my
tea. I'm reasonably confident R9500 will be at least as good, if not
better than most quality HF rigs out there.

I'd also like to think ICOM got the audio right on this one, but
that's too much to ask for only $15k.

BTW, have you noticed that WLS has gone to the dark side?

The trashing is complete. Now I can't listen to anything on the lower
half of the AM band but WGN and WIND.