[Elecraft] K3 vs. IC-7200

[Julian, G4ILO]

OE3ZK Gerhard wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> just testing a cheap Icom IC-7200.
> 
> It has an very interesting feature which I miss in the K3: The USB Port..!
> 
> The USB connection presents the IF baseband in PCM format and CI-V data
> (for radio control and PTT) to the computer running the Icom drivers, thus
> bypassing the sound-card entirely for digi modes.
> 
> Very smart... no other wires or interface "boxes" are required!
> 

As a programmer, my initial thought was of envy: there are some interesting
possibilities with that. Then I read your post again, and saw mention of
"Icom drivers." Presumably these are Windows-only, and this feature will
become completely obsolete in ten years time when the version of Windows at
that time doesn't support this driver and Icom has no interest in writing a
new one.

If they had made it an Ethernet port then it really would have been
interesting.

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