Ron, Amazing isn't it? Well, we never miss an opportunity to ask folks to take this issue up with the makers of radios. As long as hams sit back and keep quiet about it and continue to lay out thousands of bucks for a radio that doesn't support basic command sets, the makers of radios have no incentive to even listen let alone do anything about it. It probably takes ten minutes to scratch out a brief letter and put a stamp on it.
Cheers, Courtney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Stordahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brendan Minish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Jim McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dxbase Reflector" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [DXBase] IC-756PROII VFO B not captured > Brendan Minish wrote: > > > The pro and pro2 have no way for the software to tell that it is in > > split VFO mode as opposed to single vfo, it's Icom's fault not the > > software.. > > this probably applies to toer icoms too > > > > At 03:56 31/03/2004, Jim McDonald wrote: > > > >> My new IC-756PROII is working fine with DXbase using the IC-756PROII > >> selection as Radio 1, except that it doesn't read the transmit VFO when > >> working split. Thoughts? > >> > >> Jim N7US > >> > >> > And would you believe that the new $10,000 plus IC-7800 also does not > provide a way to tell that the radio is in Split or Dual-Watch!!!!! I > raised hell about this shortcomming in the 756 series, both in person > with Ray Novak, the ICOM National Sales Manager and also via e-mail. He > took note of my comments and forwarded them to the design group in > Japan. Now they have done it again! > > The Kenwoods, Yaesus, TenTecs provide this function. > > The 756ProII is a nice radio, but this really burns me. > > Ron N5IN > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >
