With the exception of the poor AM audio, the R75 is a good receiver throught
its whole tuning range, especially after you remove the MW/LW attenuator.
It is very good for dx, but because of the audio quality, I only turn it on
once or twice a year, and that is for about 20, minutes at a time. One of
these days, I will do the audio mods.
Even Icom's general coverage amateur transceivers do a good job throughout
their entire tuning range, once you remove the MW/LW attenuators. I had a
735 years ago, and it did work better than the Sony 2010.
I would suspect that something must not be entirely right with your 735. The
2010 is a very good receiver, but it is not in the class of the general
coverage amateur transceivers unless you take the AM Sync detection into
account.
Some of the older crystal controlled amateur band transceivers might not
work very well out of their normal tuning ranges, but that would be because
of the input bandpass filters that were limited to the amateur bands.
With the newer upconversion transceivers, this is no longer an issue since
suboctave filters are now being used in the front end. This allows optimum
performance over the entire tuning range of the radio.
I hope this helps.

Pete

"Bob Miller" wrote in message
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On 16 Dec 2006 11:41:04 -0800, "GP" wrote:


Thanks to all the info...Will probably get the the R75 in the near
future...

Cheers

Greg

With Icom's background in amateur radio, I suspect the r-75 is better
in the ham bands than it is in general sw receive. The Passport Radio
review seems to bear that out. My little Sony 2010 is better for sw
listening than my Icom 735... but the 735 is better at ham stuff.

Ya makes your choice.

bob
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