[Elecraft] icom 7300

interested in contacting icom 7300 users of 1500 watt linear amplifier Brian Phelan bjphel...@verizon.net __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post:

Re: [Elecraft] Icom 7300 is available

Folks - yes, this thread was closed earlier today. Please take this to private email. We are way past the OT POSTING LIMIT. 73, Eric Moderator - Really! elecraft.com --- Sent from my iPhone 6S > On Mar 2, 2016, at 9:38 PM, dave wrote: > > Eric has closed this thread but I

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Eric has closed this thread but I think this needs to be responded to: > So what does that > mean? It seems to suggest that the dirtier your signal is the better you will do!!! I don't think you understand what the WRTC is. Do some research and you will find that the kind of dirty TX you

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Wow. Elecraft seems to be fooling a lot of contesters into using their modest, yet competent radios! :) 73, Josh W6XU On 3/2/2016 8:43 PM, w7aqk wrote: since it really is not designed, with all the glitz and 500 knobs, to be a contest radio. Rather, it is designed to be a modest sized, but

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I'm trying to "get my arms around" the following statement by Joe, W4TV: "The observation I would make on this is that the poor performing Icoms were good enough to capture all 3 of the top positions in the recent WRTC. IIRC there was one Elecraft and 5 Icoms used by the top 3 teams." Joe seems

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Yes, and a Flex 6700's ADC evidently didn't crumble in the big signal jungle on topband and garnered #1 USA (assisted/unlimited) in the recent CQ WW 160M CW contest. 73, Barry N1EU On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:56 PM, dave wrote: > > The observation I would make on this is that

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On Wed,3/2/2016 9:56 AM, dave wrote: The observation I would make on this is that the poor performing Icoms were good enough to capture all 3 of the top positions in the recent WRTC. IIRC there was one Elecraft and 5 Icoms used by the top 3 teams. ICOM provided rigs at no cost to those who

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Folks - Let's end this topic now to relieve others from email overload. 73, Eric Moodulator /elecraft.com/ On 3/2/2016 9:34 AM, lstavenhagen wrote: oh, I totally agree - even my K2 nips at the heels of a 7700 and probably even a 7800, especially in a pileup. I just didn't want to bury Doug's

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The observation I would make on this is that the poor performing Icoms were good enough to capture all 3 of the top positions in the recent WRTC. IIRC there was one Elecraft and 5 Icoms used by the top 3 teams. I don't want to read too much into that, op skills play heavily in the results.

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oh, I totally agree - even my K2 nips at the heels of a 7700 and probably even a 7800, especially in a pileup. I just didn't want to bury Doug's point, which I think is a good one. A rig purchase is often a compromise, where it's often ok to sacrifice one feature set for another to suit one's

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On Wed,3/2/2016 8:24 AM, Doug Person via Elecraft wrote: If you have spent serious time with an IC-7600, IC-7700, or IC-7800, you would absolutely NOT say their performance is mediocre. They are worse than mediocre with respect to cleanliness of transmitted CW. See k9yc.com/TXNoise.pdf 73,

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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

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Excellent points, Doug. Still, the bang/buck ratio belongs to Elecraft, especially at the high end, in my view. For example, if you took that $4,269 on the K line, added approx $2000 more to it and put it into an IC 7700, say, you come out far behind performance-wise and 2 grand poorer too. So I

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Hard to compare other modern Icom transceivers to the 706 which had about the worse rx of any of their rigs in the past 30 years. It was, after all, a mobile rig designed several decades ago. The IC-7300 does represent an interesting step forward in technology. Large, touch-enabled, menu

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IC-7300 may be a radio between IC-7100 or IC-7410. Its price probably will fall to $1000 like of 7100. Ultimately direct SDR is less expensive technology. Regarding strong-signal handling, sometimes I set SDR-IQ (14 bit) as skimmer in 160m contests. Despite zillions of strong signals, SDR-IQ

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On 3/1/2016 4:52 PM, Barry N1EU wrote: N5AC made some interesting comments on the topic: https://community.flexradio.com/flexradio/topics/adc-overload-myths-debunked N5AC is "talking his book" and totally out of touch with reality. While he claims the issue of ADC overload is blown out of

Re: [Elecraft] Icom 7300 is available

;Bill" <w2...@nycap.rr.com>; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: 3/1/2016 3:08:00 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Icom 7300 is available Hi Barry, Interesting. I wonder how it will compare to my KX3. The only direct sampling complete rig that I was aware of was the Flex 6000 series. I al

[Elecraft] Icom 7300 is available

Hello JOe, Checking from websites in JA, street price in Akihabara, Tokyo is far cheaper for IC7300. 73 Johnny VR2XMC 寄件人︰ "Joe Subich, W4TV" <li...@subich.com> 收件人︰ elecraft@mailman.qth.net 傳送日期︰ 2016年03月2日 (週三) 5:18 AM 主題︰ Re: [Elecraft] Icom 7300 is avail

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This is argument to upgrade to *KSYN3AUPG. *And also describes why the K line is unbeatable. 73, István, ha4zd On 3/1/2016 10:52 PM, Barry N1EU wrote: My experience with direct sampling radios (ANAN-100D & Flex 6500 in the shack alongside my K3s/P3) is that their front ends are plenty robust

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I will keep my KX3 then. I like the idea it is 1/5th the size! All the other good features are bonus cream on top. But, since Icom America Headquarters is just a few blocks from my house (probably 15 minutes walking time) I will wait for a bit and then wander down to see if they have the

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The real question is … does anyone actually care? Maybe on an Icom list (?) Grant NQ5T K3 #2091, KX3 #8342 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm

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Well, that would be my point, of course :). With Elecraft rigs, "you get what you pay for" means a completely different thing than it does with Elecraft's competitors. IMHO, of course. And honestly, now that I've put the new synth in my K3 and just bought a K3S, I don't think there's a better

Re: [Elecraft] Icom 7300 is available

I submit that an 'entry level' rig is often a handed down or used rig. The 7300 is an 'economy' model direct conversion (which is not unattractive to some)... however... The IC-7300 should have had VGA/HDMI output for a larger display option (ideally a Bluetooth link to extend the entire

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load-myths-debunked 73, Barry N1EU Message: 23 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 12:08:00 -0800 From: Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> To: Barry LaZar <k3...@comcast.net> Cc: Bill <w2...@nycap.rr.com>, elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Icom 7300 is available Message-ID: &l

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On Tue,3/1/2016 1:29 PM, lstavenhagen wrote: even my K2 runs circles around my 706MKIIG in terms of RX performance. That's a very unfair comparison -- the 706, like the Yaesu FT100D, FT847, and FT897, in all their incarnations combine a lousy receiver with el cheapo noise generators that

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I guess you get what you pay for. To my knowledge, only Elecraft is capable of producing receivers that top the charts over at Sherwood engineering but still cost only what their competitors' "entry level" rigs do. I don't think the Icom leopard is necessarily going to change its spots with the

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If one is not a backpacker or wants 100W output - perhaps for mobile work - the "traditional knob" interface, built in tuner, support for the AH-3/AH-4 tuners at the antenna, 100W, etc. make the IC-7300 quite interesting. IIRC, the 7300 will do PSK31/RTTY with an internal decoder and attached

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YES! In addition to being a great mobile and fixed station rig, it's a backpacker's dream! Last summer, I loaned my KX3/KXPA100 with a 20Ah LiFePO4 battery to AF6RT and W6JTI, who dragged it up a 2 mile trail with a 1,000 ft gain in elevation to light up a rare 6M grid. They were also

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> > Beyond that, the KX3: > > - has built-in stereo audio and CW/RTTY/PSK31 text decode with a PC Typo. I meant "without" a PC. (But it will also work with one :) Wayne __ Elecraft mailing list Home:

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Hi Barry, > Interesting. I wonder how it will compare to my KX3. > > The only direct sampling complete rig that I was aware of was the Flex 6000 > series. I also wonder if it will be as flexible in operation as a KX3. Ah > technology, and so little time. ;-) Since the 7300 uses direct

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: "Bill" <w2...@nycap.rr.com> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: 3/1/2016 2:02:32 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Icom 7300 is available Most of the dealers are showing the 7300 as either in stock or soon to be in stock at $1499. Unique, in that it is a direct sampling receiver,

[Elecraft] Icom 7300 is available

Most of the dealers are showing the 7300 as either in stock or soon to be in stock at $1499. Unique, in that it is a direct sampling receiver, has a live scope, and depends upon a touch screen for control. Not really my cuppa, but it will be interesting to watch this rig make its debut.