On 3/2/2016 11:49 AM, lstavenhagen wrote:
I don't doubt at all that Icom's high end rigs are good rigs with good performance, but the K3 and K3S at the core of the Elecraft investment still far outperform them for less money. For me anyway, Icoms offer nothing comparable to the K line at the upper end of the $ range, not even close.
If you look at test data from both Sherwood and ARRL, I don't believe you can consider any of the Icom rigs (ProIII, 7600, 7700, 7800) to be "high performance" (I'm holding judgement until I see test data on the 7851). In all cases, phase noise and 2 KHz IMDDR3 are barely adequate with 2 KHz IMDDR3 between 70 and 80 dB and phase noise in the 125 - 130 dBc/Hz range 10 KHz from carrier. Those numbers put Icom's top of the line rigs behind well known "High performance" rigs like the Flex-1500 and Yaesu FTdx3000! 73, ... Joe, W4TV ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
