Well, I took the 396XT to a recent event and wish I had brought the RX7 instead.
Traveling with a family, lawn-chairs, cargo-pants full of sunblock, cameras, baby-wipes, glasses, you name it, and the lightness of the RX7 would have been very welcome. Even with an SMA stubby duck attached (bundled with the RS Pro-137 along with the regular duck), the mass of the 396 was swinging around and banging my knees. There was no way I was going to annoy everyone with the audio, so I was using headphones anyway as the event was pretty loud.
Security doesn't want any transmitters like GMRS/Family or other personal radios, and fortunately I didn't have to explain that the switch on the side isn't a PTT. No worries there with the RX7.
The RX7 *could* have been used front-pocket, BUT with the headphone jack on the side, and requiring an adapter for stereo headphones, it would have been impossible. ICOM - put the headphone jack on the top since the RX7 is meant to be portable / pocket ops!
Still, every ounce counts as the hours wear on so the RX7 would have been preferable. And I didn't want to wear it on the belt smacking it around in the crowd.
Last edited by hertzian; 10-19-2009 at 04:20 PM..
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