On Nov 14, 10:02 pm, Joe Analssandrini
wrote:


I do not want to get into a discussion about the merits of the AR7030
'Plus' vs. the Icom 756Pro-III, especially as I have never seen one of
the Icoms, but I would ask that people here cease repeating the old
canards about operating the AR7030 'Plus' as they have long-since been
discredited. First, even if one wishes to use the radio with its
controls alone, it is just not that hard to do! If one can operate a
VCR, a DVD player, one of the new HD televisions, or even a cell-
phone, he/she will find operating the AR7030 a "piece of cake." We
have ALL learned to use "menu-driven" products in the last ten years!

When people complain that the menu system is 'complicated', I don't
think they mean that it is complicated in the sense of 'difficult to
understand'. Rather, they mean--or at any rate, I would mean--that it
is complicated in the sense of requiring a larger number of movements
or 'button pushes' and/or 'dial twists' per setting change. If you're
DXing weak signals you will likely be continually adjusting some
setting or other. It's not like a VCR or HD television, where you get
it set up and then just let it go. Adding just a single modest step to
the process of adjusting filter width or notch might not seem like a
big deal, but you have to imagine it multiplied many thousands of
times.