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DT593
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Rating: 5/5
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Mar 1, 2004 02:16
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What I Was Hoping For
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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Bought one on e-bay for about $500 total . Got a nice clean rig without any mods done to it. Seemed a bit weak on receive so found a shop manual online and tuned only the IF's and re-adjusted the S-meter. the results couldn't have made me happier. Compared to my Pro-2006, my Icom-PCR-1000, my BC-780 and my BC-895 it is just a "bit" better in regards to sensitivity than all of them (Comparisons made with a splitter going from various antennas to the R-7000 and what ever radio I was comparing it to.This seemed to be true across the entire received spectrum. No bad capacitors or bad solder joints (as of yet). I am not at all disapointed in what I got for my $500...True Quality all the way.
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KA2AYR
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Rating: 5/5
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Nov 29, 2003 04:05
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Taking a Licking and Still Ticking
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I bought my R-7000 sometime around 1985/ 1986. I've added CTCSS/ CDCSS decoder displays, modified it to add another set of 99 channels and used a variety of preamps and filters with it. Over the years it has needed to have the electrolytic capacitors in the DC - DC converters replaced several times (de-valued electrolytics cause display and RX sensitivity problems over long time periods), but each time it comes back as strong as the day it was unpacked. Probably the most reliable piece of communications equipment I've got.
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