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I am pleased with this RadioIt has a very sensitive receiver; there is a preamp but it digs to the noise floor with the preamp off. There is a plethora of filters, dual passband tuning, notch filters, noise blanker and noise reduction. It has a full featured CW keyer, which works really well. There are four CW memories, so I can set it send out "CQ CQ CQ DE AL7X AL7X AL7X" at the push of a button. In a contest, this may be useful. There was a bit of residual SWR at the low end of 20 meters ... a push of the tuner button and it is now 1:1. The overall feel is simply "smooth." But there is sure a learning curve to this unit. Way to go, Icom! Part A: The Tower Part B: Temporary 20m Dipole Part C: The Hex Beam Part D: Aiming the HF Antenna Part F: AL7X goes Digital! Return to XAlaska main page Copyright 2013, Ramon Gandia |