Lew Phelps, N6LEW, mentioned the FT-736R. I have one, and used it for many years when I was living on top of a decent hill in New Hampshire.
I briefly flirted with the idea of buying an IC-9100 to replace my IC-746Pro AND the FT-736R, but after reading many review articles, as well as the discussions on this list, I bought a K3 kit. I love it for HF work, but I'd also like to see an integrated desktop replacement for the FT-736R to cover 6m (or 2m) through 23cm (or perhaps 13cm?). The FT-736R was touted as a satellite radio, but I'm not personally interested in the more esoteric satellite features (such as reverse VFO tracking), as I preferred to do weak-signal work, with some cross-mode and FM operating. I still have the "brick" amplifiers for 2, 222 and 432 MHz that I used with the FT-736R, and they're still currently available, so I'm thinking that the envisioned Elecraft product only needs to put out 5-10W, but should have separate per-band relay keying lines. Just my 20 millidollars' worth of daydreaming... Brandy, N1HO ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
