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PAULGBLUNDELL
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Rating: 5/5
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Jun 17, 2010 15:14
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R5 with major improvements
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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My Icom R6 wideband hand held arrived yesterday (as did my Pro 2035 so I had two radios to program last night Wink )
After spending some time programming it up with around 160 channels I can report a few positive things about it.
- The scan and search speed is MUCH better then the R5 was, I would say close to 40 - 50 channels a second with them all being in order, it can scan the UHF CB band (40 channels) in less then 1 second. Searching the Air band was also very quick and that would be around the same speed or maybe even a little quicker.
- The CTCSS tone decode works very well, it takes a few seconds to find the right tones but at least it can be turned on and off as required.
- Programming is very easy and I was able to do most of this (except adding alpha tags) without ever looking at the manual.
- From my limited testing last night (I did have another radio I needed to play with too Grin ) no major problems with any bands and overload / FM BCB or TV audio being in places it should not.
- Finally Icom have got it right and you can link scan bands together and scan any mix of these, no longer is it one bank or all bank scanning like on the R2 and R5.
Overall if you took the R5, increased the scan / search speeds, added the multi bank scanning and reduced the battery drain you would end up with the R6. I used to own an R5 a few years ago and was very happy with this except for the slow scan / search speeds and bank scanning being limited to one or all banks, in the R6 Icom have fixed this.
Paul
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