I've been wondering this as well...

I was looking at getting an Icom r5 unblocked. Anyone here had experience with this radio?

Very compact, can get pretty much any freq (from what I read), and from the yahoo group devoted to this model, they all seem to love it.

Its what i was looking at getting for a radio...

Kris
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