Eric F. Richards wrote:
Peter Maus wrote:



Now, why am I not surprised.....



Yeah, I know, I sound like phil blathering on about the R-75...


Actually, I was expecting you to give the other side's
perspective.


Well, I think that the radio gets a lot of hard knocks that it doesn't
deserve. Aside from the filters and some missing features, it is a
*good* radio.




I've never met a radio that I didn't like. Even the worst had
their charms. But IC-R8500 is fine. Not an R-9000, but what is.


As I said, I'm not a big fan of widebands.





A real surprise to me was seeing how Robert Sherwood ranked it in its
performance at

http://www.sherweng.com/table.html

...every time I see Bob at a hamfest I bug him to get the R-75 numbers
up there so we can do an a/b comparison.

But in the mean time, check out noise floor, ultimate rejection,
preselector, sensitivity, compared to, say, the RX-340.




Impressive.





How you been Eric? Things going better?


A little bit, but still touch-n-go for the moment. Sold off my R-75,
HF-150, FRG-7 and DSP-599zx, leaving the two 8500s, the RX-340, the
R-392 and the WinRadio G303i. I'm still plodding along, although the
rest of the year will be wicked, next year should improve.




Of the ones you've lost, you'll miss HF-150 the most. The ones
you kept will leave few wants.


Congrats on hanging on through a tough year. There were a couple
of times I thought I'd have had to wok the dog, myself, a few years
ago. Patience, and determination, count.