Audio amp is also quite, it’s a good trick to remove the aerials and turn up the volume as a rough guide on ten meters.Ĥ, TX audio quality good, on par with pro2 or 746p and for the audio files out there check out some of the other postings on this site.ĥ, The external build quality is very good, all controls have a solid feel and are well spaced out, the display is large and clear, I need a clear display as my vision is no longer what it once was. The noise floor on receive is also one of the best I have encountered. ģ, Audio quality on receive with external speaker or headphones is the best I have heard yet on an amateur transceiver. TX over shoot regarding tubes no problem. I consider this to be a slight problem, it would depend on mode and gain of your aerial and proximity of other hams. Note I do not use CW…just SSB…but there is a sign of unsuppressed carrier… carrier suppression was checked and is now up to spec minus 45db. I have had a slight problem so far after 18 months constant use …with unsuppressed carrier. I have used two amps so far ,one uses a single 3-500 and the other amp uses a single gs35b triode. I do not consider this a big problem for me.Ģ, TX over shoot and unsuppressed carrier. My ic-775DSP has all the filters including voice chip and high stability crystal oven plus the rarer 6kc AM SSB filter and rack mounts.ġ, The second VFO should be tuned to a redundant band as there is miner breakthrough, Well where do we start, I have held fire on writing this review for some time.Īt present I have an IC-781 and IC-775DSP and in the recent past: TS 870, IC756-P2, IC-746P, IC-7400 and have owned and tried many more. This radio is awesome on receive and is better than any other HF radio I've ever used. I have owned most of the Kenwoods, Yeasu and Icoms. They are hard to find and not many were made! If you have the chance to get one, do it. Nice feature, but since I am using an amp, I am forced to use an outboard tuner for the amp's sake. When I use my outboard tuner since I have an amp in line, the radio's tuner kicks in when I try to tune the SWR. It is a big radio and not prone for portable operation. It truly performs well past some of the current models out there and equally well, if not better, then some of the models now selling for 5 figures! Trying to find a better rig IC-781 FT-1000D FT-1000MP MKV etc etc.Guys all the rigs have there good and bad points.This one has many good points about it.We don't have to go into that.Just a very very good all around rig. īeen using this rig for a two year period and it just gets better. You can write your own review of the ICOM IC-775DSP.

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