[ICOM] Lack of antennas for "live" demos

[Scott Honaker]

>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?

Icom was the only one I saw.  It has nothing to do with deception, it's
practicality.  I understand someone drove the MonstIR to Dayton from
Washington (state) and clearly someone had to drag that US Tower trailer out
there.  Icom was able to ship their radios but then they had to deal with
getting permissions for the structure and the 1000' cable run into the
building from the event organizers, fire department, planners, etc. and
overcome their every objection.  Then came the actual construction/erection
of the whole thing.  That got exactly ONE radio on the air.

When I visisted the Kenwood and Yaesu booths too and I didn't notice any
signal source on any radios.  Yaesu brought all three versions of the
FT-DX9000 and I wanted to play a bit (since they want more than the
IC-7800).  There was no signal.  The bandscope didn't work, I couldn't try
using any filters, switching modes didn't get me anything, etc.  It was a
pretty lame display.  I don't blame them at all for not having an antenna,
but not even a VCR on their new $13K+ rig?!

Scott N7SS