[ICOM] IC-7800 hardware upgrade availeble

Jan Robbins swanman at cfu.net
Thu Feb 16 21:03:01 EST 2006


Tks for the info, Anders.  This suggests that Icom has finally figured 
out that DSP is not even the future, let alone the present (RF engineers 
could have told them that a long time ago--evidence Ten-Tec) of good 
receivers, and wants to build a radio that will compete with anything.  
Wonderful news, even though I will never spend money on a 7800, since it 
won't do much more than the 775 with roofing filter already does, even 
with the new front end.  Vy 73!  Hope all is well your end.  Jan N0JR

Anders Janis SM4RNA wrote:

>Hi all!
>
>>From a newsletter released from our local Icom supplier the following is announced!
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>IC-7800 gets a aditional 3 kHz roofingfilter 
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>ICOM has made an hardeware upgrade kit with a aditional 3 kHz roofingfilter.  The kit includes RF and PLL Unit  for A and B receiver, that is  PCB's with three different kristall filters in the first MF with 3, 6, and 15 kHz roofingfilter
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>Quite much work and thereby $ is involved to do this work.
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>Probably this upgrade will be standarad in the future for new IC-7800's.
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>A new  PLL unit is included in this upgrade and phase noice is said to be reduced.
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>This upgrade will involve $$$ and is more or less availeble upon preorder!
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>/Anders
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