Anyone out there still using this 20 some year old radio and is it good
enough for serious SWLing. If so what are they going for in good shape?
The reason I ask is for a short time I used a borrowed about 20 years ago
and kind of liked it but my memory isn't that good.
tnx

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73
Hank WD5JFR

Henry Kolesnik wrote:
Anyone out there still using this 20 some year old radio and is it good
enough for serious SWLing. If so what are they going for in good shape?
The reason I ask is for a short time I used a borrowed about 20 years ago
and kind of liked it but my memory isn't that good.
tnx

I remember reading reviews and talking with guys on the old Fido BBS
nets that either loved or hated the radio. No middle ground. As I
remember it had some Icomisms that you had to get used to. One was
having to re-tune when switching modes and of course it lacks direct
keypad entry and memories. And dxing.com notes some undetailed problem
tuning at the margins of the bands?? But in the right hands it was a
good radio.

Here's a pretty good summary at: http://www.dxing.com/rx/pcr1000.htm
altough the valuation seems high to me. More details if you speak
German are at: http://www.dr-boesch.ch/radio/icom-r70.htm The google
translation to english is a bit rough, but readable.

Thanks for the pointers. Does anyone know for sure if the R-70 have to be
sent back to the factory if the internal memory battery dies?
tnx

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73
Hank WD5JFR

"Henry Kolesnik" wrote in message
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Anyone out there still using this 20 some year old radio and is it good
enough for serious SWLing. If so what are they going for in good shape?
The reason I ask is for a short time I used a borrowed about 20 years ago
and kind of liked it but my memory isn't that good.
tnx

--

73
Hank WD5JFR

Henry Kolesnik wrote:
Anyone out there still using this 20 some year old radio and is it good
enough for serious SWLing. If so what are they going for in good shape?
The reason I ask is for a short time I used a borrowed about 20 years ago
and kind of liked it but my memory isn't that good.
tnx

I have one. It is excellent but the band arrangements by HAM vs. Non-Ham
is inconvenient to ME,,,,also the tuning knob fixed by some odd-sized
allen screw keeps falling off

But it's an excellent radio till i find my lost RX 320

anyone got one to sell?

Yodar