[Elecraft] Icom 7300 is available

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

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