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by WB4TJH on October 24, 2003	Mail this to a friend!
I have had an Icom 703 for several months now and am for the most part very satisfied with it. I have the 250hz cw filter and it is like a straight razor on qrm. My primary station antenna is an Alpha Delta 40/80 meter combo dipole up 35 feet fed with 100 feet of radio shack 300 ohm twinlead. With a small 4:1 qrp balun in the shack connected to a couple of feet of coax to the rig, the built in antenna tuner in the 703 will work all bands 80 thru 10. I have worked VE7SL while he was running 100 milliwatts cw on 20 meters. He was in British Columbia, Canada, and I am in Sarasota, Florida. That speaks highly of the Icom receiver. I also have a Kenwood TS570SG which is a better all around cw radio, but I use the Icom more because it is so much fun on qrp.I have found the Icom's receiver vastly superior to the FT-817, at least on cw. But everyone has his own opinion, after all, this is just a hobby and discussing and comparing equipment is one of the more fun aspects of it. WB4TJH

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by KD5MBZ on October 29, 2003	Mail this to a friend!
Sounds like you are looking at some nice radios, but you might also want to consider the SGC2020. I think mine is a great radio, and I am comparing it with my FT-817 and ICOM706MK2G with is the same as the 703 but with more power. That is where the 2020 is nice it is a small compact QRP rig that is capable of 20w if and when it is needed. Just my thought to help muddy the waters of decision. Most important, get one, and get it on the air! QRP 73 Tom

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by SERGEANT on January 4, 2004	Mail this to a friend!
Overpriced? $600 for just about the BEST receiver & QSK on the market? Not overpriced at all, in my opinion. K0BHC

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by VE3DPC on January 6, 2004	Mail this to a friend!
What is better for a first QRP rig a Rockmite or SW+Series. I was planning on putting the extra audio filter into the ROCKmite as well. But now I might even look at the KX1 Confused or what! The KX1 is of course more exspensive. NEW CW FrEAK! Dave

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by XE1UFO on January 6, 2004	Mail this to a friend!
Travelling much of Mexico and the world, my goal was reliable HF communications in a small package. I needed omething I could also backpack into Mexico's mountanaous ountry with. After reading all the reports about failed finals on both the Yaesu FT817 and the Icom 703, I decided to choose the SG2020 with ADSP2. Wow! What a radio! Sure, you don’t get 2 or 6 meters. But this radio could survive a tornado!

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