"gareth" wrote in message
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I/ve been studying the spec of this rig and am surprised at the
degree of provision of facilities, including narrow CW filters at
the outset and the included automatic ATU.

But, assuming that one has space available for a shack, is it necessary
for everything to be so compact? For example, fiddley little buttons
and knobs?

My own shack (mainly a museum) covers a whole wall with 5 sets
of shelves and countless boxes beneath the tables, so compaction
is not an issue.

I hate the small sets also. I have a large computer type desk and the main
rig is an Icom 746. It does have a reasonable large display,but could use
larger knobs and buttons with lables on them large enough to see from a
distance. Too bad Icom does not have a rig like that any more in the same
price range. Does everything up to 2 meters. If they had just put 440 in
it they could probably have sold a lot of them. Could not have been much of
a problem as the later 706 rigs had it.

For the small packages, rigs such as the Icom 706 I have is fine.

I guess they are trying to shave a dollar or so off the ammount of materials
used in the home type rigs.



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