....Get a look at the ICOM R-9500 receiver Owners Manual, in PDF format
at: http://radioworld.ca and navigate your way to Icom 9500 site,
and scroll to left for pdf brochure and/or manual. The manual runs to
almost an incredible 200 Pages...WOW
This receiver is amazing..it does everything except wash your car and
win you the lottery (which you'll need if you hope to buy one).

On Feb 28, 3:38*pm, SW4ever wrote:
- ...Get a look at the ICOM R-9500 receiver Owners Manual,
in PDF format at: *
- http://radioworld.ca*
- and navigate your way to Icom 9500 site,
- and scroll to left for pdf brochure and/or manual.
- The manual runs to almost an incredible 200 Pages...
- WOW
- This receiver is amazing..it does everything except
- wash your car and
- win you the lottery
- (which you'll need if you hope to buy one).

SW4ever,

Maybe it should be called the I¢$M I¢-R95$$ ! Receiver
http://www.grove-ent.com/r9500.html
http://www.universal-radio.com/catal...rxvr/0095.html
http://www.icomamerica.com/en/produc...0/default.aspx
http://www.icomamerica.com/en/produc...fications.aspx

eHAM - Reviews for Icom IC-R9500 Receiver
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/6577
Evidently 4 People must have Won-the-Lottery !
http://www.rigpix.com/icom/icr9500.htm

~ RHF

On Feb 28, 6:38 pm, SW4ever wrote:
...Get a look at the ICOM R-9500 receiver Owners Manual, in PDF format
at: http://radioworld.ca and navigate your way to Icom 9500 site,
and scroll to left for pdf brochure and/or manual. The manual runs to
almost an incredible 200 Pages...WOW
This receiver is amazing..it does everything except wash your car and
win you the lottery (which you'll need if you hope to buy one).

Probably be hard in a " blind shortwave test" to differentiate between
this one
an R8
& an Icom R75

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:51:20 -0800 (PST), David
wrote:

On Feb 28, 6:38 pm, SW4ever wrote:
...Get a look at the ICOM R-9500 receiver Owners Manual, in PDF format
at: http://radioworld.ca and navigate your way to Icom 9500 site,
and scroll to left for pdf brochure and/or manual. The manual runs to
almost an incredible 200 Pages...WOW
This receiver is amazing..it does everything except wash your car and
win you the lottery (which you'll need if you hope to buy one).

Probably be hard in a " blind shortwave test" to differentiate between
this one
an R8
& an Icom R75

Okay folks.........get ready for yet another round of the R75 vs R8
debate.

As to the blind test I would be more than happy to participate, I'll
bring an R75, 100 feet of wire and an ICE 182 along with some rope &
insulators etc to put up the test antenna. I'm sure there are many R8
owners who might wish to participate.............anyone out there with
the Icom 9500? Oh, and if the other participants cannot travel to a
mutual location just ship me your radios & I'll do the test
myself...........though it sure may take a long time to get conclusive
evidence 8-}

On Feb 28, 6:25*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:51:20 -0800 (PST), David

wrote:
On Feb 28, 6:38 pm, SW4ever wrote:
...Get a look at the ICOM R-9500 receiver Owners Manual, in PDF format
at: *http://radioworld.caand navigate your way to Icom 9500 site,
and scroll to left for pdf brochure and/or manual. The manual runs to
almost an incredible 200 Pages...WOW
This receiver is amazing..it does everything except wash your car and
win you the lottery (which you'll need if you hope to buy one).

Probably be hard in a " blind shortwave test" to differentiate between
this one
an R8
& an Icom R75

Okay folks.........get ready for yet another round of the R75 vs R8
debate.

- As to the blind test I would be more than happy to participate,
- I'll bring an R75, 100 feet of wire and an ICE 182 along with
- some rope & insulators etc to put up the test antenna. *

GH - For a 'true' Side-by-Side using one Antenna you will
need some sort of an Antenna Splitter/Combiner :

The RF Systems SP-2 2-Way Antenna Splitter might help
so that you can use the same Antenna, MT and Feed-in-Line
and do an actual side-by-side for the two radios.
-or- RF Systems SP-1 Splitter/Combiner;
LF Engineering SPL-2/50L VLF-HF Two-Way Splitter/Combiner

The only other 'cheap-and-dirty' way is to simply use 100 Feet
of 300 Ohm Twin Lead -or- 450 Ohm Ladder-Line. +plus+
Use a a common 8-Foot Ground Rod for 'both' Receivers.
Use the Receiver's HI-Z Terminals for the Antenna Inputs.
* One of the Parallel Wires to One Receiver and the
* 'other' Parallel Wire to the 'other' Receiver.
=YES= I know it ain't perfect but it does work better than
a single Wire Antenna Element etc; and then Switching
back-and-forth between the two receivers.

~ RHF

In article
,
RHF wrote:

On Feb 28, 6:25*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:51:20 -0800 (PST), David

wrote:
On Feb 28, 6:38 pm, SW4ever wrote:
...Get a look at the ICOM R-9500 receiver Owners Manual, in PDF format
at: *http://radioworld.caand navigate your way to Icom 9500 site,
and scroll to left for pdf brochure and/or manual. The manual runs to
almost an incredible 200 Pages...WOW
This receiver is amazing..it does everything except wash your car and
win you the lottery (which you'll need if you hope to buy one).

Probably be hard in a " blind shortwave test" to differentiate between
this one
an R8
& an Icom R75

Okay folks.........get ready for yet another round of the R75 vs R8
debate.

- As to the blind test I would be more than happy to participate,
- I'll bring an R75, 100 feet of wire and an ICE 182 along with
- some rope & insulators etc to put up the test antenna. *

GH - For a 'true' Side-by-Side using one Antenna you will
need some sort of an Antenna Splitter/Combiner :

SNIP

Unlike yourself most people have this sort of thing figured out already
and it would comprise of more than passive splitters but thanks for
trying.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

David wrote:

Probably be hard in a " blind shortwave test" to differentiate between
this one an R8 & an Icom R75


Do you feel the R75 is as good for utility listening as it's cracked up
to be? Any experience with the digital sound module for that set?





mike

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:26:47 GMT, m II wrote:

David wrote:

Probably be hard in a " blind shortwave test" to differentiate between
this one an R8 & an Icom R75


Do you feel the R75 is as good for utility listening as it's cracked up
to be? Any experience with the digital sound module for that set?


mike

For utilities it's great. Mine was bought used with Kiwa mods and
additional narrow filters for SSB, though in reality the filters are
narrower than I've neede. Have considered pulling them and getting
decent wide filters for AM, though in reality the amount of time I
spend listening I'm not ready to spend the bucks. In many cases I'll
do the ECSS thing and get sound quality a bit better than in AM or
AM-Synch. I've never done an A-B test with an R8 so I can't comment
on how they two would stack up, though knowing Drake I do believe
anyone who says they find the Drake audio notably better. BY digital
sound module do you mean the voice synthesisor (sp?) or the DSP? The
DSP is okay - more effective the NIR-10 I used to use on my ham
xceivers but it didn't knock my socks off. Overall a good radio in
it's price class.

In article
,
David wrote:

On Feb 28, 6:38 pm, SW4ever wrote:
...Get a look at the ICOM R-9500 receiver Owners Manual, in PDF format
at: http://radioworld.ca and navigate your way to Icom 9500 site,
and scroll to left for pdf brochure and/or manual. The manual runs to
almost an incredible 200 Pages...WOW
This receiver is amazing..it does everything except wash your car and
win you the lottery (which you'll need if you hope to buy one).

Probably be hard in a " blind shortwave test" to differentiate between
this one
an R8
& an Icom R75

I think it would be easy. These two sets have very different audio
characteristics.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California