[ICOM] Icom kind of disappointing at Hamcomm

[George Lee]

I have never seen hams that were too shy to step up and turn the VFO knobs 
and do some investigating on their own.  Sure seems it would help determine 
what one is hearing and care less about the recording.

Just my .02 worth and inflation is eating on that.

George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry K3BZ" <k3bz at arrl.net>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [ICOM] Icom kind of disappointing at Hamcomm


>I love my ICOM gear. ICOM is certainly not the only one that uses this 
>"time
> machine recording" type of deceptive approach to demonstrating their 
> wares,
> but why does anyone do this? Do they think we won't notice? (Well, I 
> didn't
> 8^) but some of us will and they will spread the word) Like the phony
> IC-7000 they displayed... just a facade... and the actual product won't be
> ready for perhaps half a year!! Is connecting a real antenna such a 
> problem?
> 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
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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