[ICOM] Icom kind of disappointing at Hamcomm

[jduerbusch at charter.net]

Jerry I do not take acception to anything you said except that Icom and SteppIR/USTower did work together at Dayton and that antenna was the one used on the IC-7800 for the Icom Special Event station.  The IC-7800 was operated in real time by some very gifted operation.

Joe K0BX


From: "Jerry K3BZ" <k3bz at arrl.net>
At Dayton, maybe ICOM could have worked out a deal with the guys at SteppIR
to use that huge 40M to 6M MonstIR yagi that dominated the sky over the main
entrance... that could have been quite a demonstration...

73,  Jerry K3BZ



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From: "Tim Duffy K3LR" <k3lr at k3lr.com>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: <dross at sirinet.net>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: [ICOM] Icom kind of disappointing at Hamcomm


> There was no contest going on this weekend. What you heard was a time
> machine recording that was playing back. It really sounds like it is
> real, but it was a recording. They did the same thing at Dayton.
> The time machines record an entire sub band with VHS tape and can play
> it back allowing a user to tune across the band after a contest is over.
>
> 73,
> Tim K3LR
>
> John Geiger wrote:
>
> > Just got back from Hamcomm where I was hoping to see
> > the IC7000 prototype.  It wasn't there-the rep said it
> > was already in Japan.  They also didn't have any
> > literature concerning it, or if they did, it was gone
> > by the time I got there on Friday afternoon.
> > According to the rep there, it is supposed to hit the
> > market in December 2005, and it is a completely
> > different radio from the 706MKIIG.
> >
> > Now the $64,000 which I asked Icom "Will it have a
> > better receiver than the 706MKIIG?"  The rep mumbled
> > something about it having 2 32bit DSP chips, and that
> > was about it.  I didn't ask about the DSP, I asked
> > about the receiver.  My guess is that either he didn't
> > know (more likely), or it doesn't, but he didn't want
> > to say that.
> >
> > Anyway, the Icom booth had absolutely nothing about
> > this rig, and you would never know it was in the
> > pre-release stage by what I saw there.  Glad to know
> > that Texas scores way below the Dayton treatment.
> >
> > Did get to see and play a little with an Icom 7800
> > there.  Very impressive.  What contest was going on
> > this weekend?  In the 20 CW band the 7800 was picking
> > up some contest with lots of people sending their
> > state.
> >
> > 73s John NE0P
> >
> >
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