AFAIK the Icom has rather high distortion in AM, which means it's more a
ham/ute thing (when unmodified at least).

I use my Kiwa audio upgraded R71a 95% on AM and have no trouble. A friend of
mine has a completely stock radio and I could never find fault with it. Depends
on how critical your ears are I guess.


jw
wb9uai

I use my Kiwa audio upgraded R71a 95% on AM and have no trouble. A friend of
mine has a completely stock radio and I could never find fault with it. Depends
on how critical your ears are I guess.


jw
wb9uai

Hi

My receiver has the Kiwa audio mod and I have absolutely no complaints
with it. I also replaced the stock wide filter with an LFH2SK 3.7 KHz
filter from Kiwa. Even with a narrow bandwidth such as this, I can get
very acceptable audio quality by turning the passband tuning knob to
either the 10 or 2 o'clock position. It sounds at least as good as my
Kiwa modified (filters and expanded audio upgrade) FRG-100 using the 6
Khz bandwidth. The R71 is a fine receiver and I personally wouldn't
trade it in for anything else.

Cheers

Andy