[1000mp] Was => Pro III -- FT1000MP comparison

[Pete Smith]

Inability to report that the radio is split is an Icom "characteristic", all right, but with N1MM Logger the cure is simple - if you command splits on and off from the program, then it knows the state of the radio and QSX spots are handled properly.  So you need to keep your hands off the front panel, that's all.  Easier said than remembered at 4AM, perhaps!

73, Pete N4ZR

At 01:39 PM 4/3/2006, Tod - ID wrote:
>Although I said that I was through with this thread I received off-reflector
>a note about a "significant" difference between the ICOM 756 Pro series [and
>I think all ICOM transceivers] and the FT1000X series.  I thought I would
>post it and see if people who own (have owned) both could confirm what I
>think I was told.
>
>Here what I was told,
>
>"Because the ICOM computer interface fails to implement a capability to
>determine if the radio is currently running in split/dualwatch it's
>impossible to properly use the radio with logging/contest programs.  I have
>complained for years about this oversight (you can sense just about
>everything else you can imagine...but this critical command is missing) to
>ICOM America in person and by e-mail.  The ARRL technical staff is also
>aware of this and has been in the loop.  The problem is that, and this was
>told to me directly by the ICOM America manager, Japan simply ignores our
>plea.
>
>All the competing radios from Yaesu, TenTec, and some others properly
>implement this.
>
>The issue arises when you want to properly respond to a  DX Spot with a QSX
>in the comment field, and then when you wish to issue a spot to the DX
>Cluster.  In the later case only the ICOM of the top radios cannot generate
>a QSX spot because the ICOM is incapable to telling the programs if it is in
>split mode."
>
>We have all seen QSX spots and I have generated them while using my
>FT1000MP, but I have never tried to do so using my ICOM 756 Pro II [now in a
>different State than I am again]. 
>
>Can anyone confirm that this is (1) real and (2) significant? Maybe it is
>simply a vagary of the logging software in use?
>
>Tod, KØTO
>
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