On Aug 5, 9:38*pm, CountFloyd
wrote:
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:07:30 -0700, Bushcraftgregg wrote:
On Aug 4, 10:42*am, John Plimmer wrote:
Yes, my magnificent Icom IC-7700 has been sold. It was definitely the
finest and best radio I will ever own, but at the end it was a huge
overkill in my small town and not being able to go to the coast for
DXpeditions sounded its death knell. It would not run on batteries and
at 35kg's/80lbs packed it was just too heavy to take anywhere.

So it will be replaced with an Icom IC-7600, a portable radio that will
run on 12v DC auto batteries. It has many of the fine features of the
7700 and is quite pricey at $4000, but aw shucks, you only live once
and you can't take it with you. Unfortunately the dealer has no stock
in Joburg and it may be a few months before he gets new stock in, So I
will just have to be patient and hope the ball and chain doesn't get
her hands on the boodle from the 7700.

Also I will sell the old Icom IC-756PROIII that I am currently DXing
with, and that will be replaced with a laptop and Perseus SDR - then I
will be fully up-to-date with the world's other top MW DXer's.

Later in August it is DXpedition time again, this time the beautiful
Jongensgat, so I hope for good weather and wonderful propagation.

Good job John, that is a pretty good chunk of change.

I got my Hammarlund 129X with Heathkit Q Mutiplier back yesterday,
totally recapped and realigned. The fella even added on for me a new
digital readout for an extra $30.00

Total cost $152 - why the extra two dollars I will never know. But I
know my Hammar really likes the broadcast bands.:-)

I have a great HQ-145XC. *It has been totally gone over. *Who did your
digital readout? *That sounds like something I would be interested in for
my old HQ!


Yeah, I have the 140X also, that will be next in
getting tuned up. There's all kinds of people all
over the internet that do that type of work, apparently
there is nothing to it.