Generic info on HF radios
JohnAnecdotal info I have from a tech who worked in the Bahamas is that a good portion of his business was derived from fixing SGC brand transceivers and their tuners as well. I have no personal experience with this mfg. I have had all the other common brands, Icom, Kenwood and Yaesu and never found any to be uniquely better or worse; the I802 does have the most bells and whistles though and can be more easily mounted in the 40.5 nav station space. We mounted our HF (non-removable head type)on a bracket just over the nav desk which does hinder opening the desk somewhat. Also, the split backstay does make antenna placement problemmatic - I used to use a random length wire hoisted with a mast halyard from the std cockpit rail when I wanted to use the radio which wasn't often but as long as you have a decent RF counterpoise and DC ground to the radio, virtually anything should work through a tuner. Not sure any of this helps...Don