RTL-SDR Pan-adapter using HDSDR with the IC-751A

There is little doubt that the RTL-SDR tuner dongle radio receivers are the hottest new thing for the amateur radio experimenter.  Re-purposing the $10 tuner dongle to be an extraordinarily wide-band software defined radio is the subject of countless internet articles and videos.  Here I am adding my experiences to the crowd.  What I will describe [...]