[ICOM] New IC-7700 announced at Dayton

[Alex]

Hi Adam,

>I would have liked to see Dual Watch; I often use it in conjunction with
>Split. During 20m or 40m QSO's with friends in the US, I sometimes transmit
>below the US phone band to get away from the QRM. Split + Dual Watch comes
>in very handy for such cases. (Canada has no sub-bands by emission type, so
>there is no regulatory issue here.)

I most often use it to find out where the DX is listening when they are split and are using RIT, or even just to see how the pile up is behaving for timing purposes. During contesting I use it to find multipliers on the same band, and if it's a rare one I may just have it sit there waiting for the pile up to thin out a bit before wasting too much energy calling the mult when it's impossible for to get through anyway. The omission of Dual Watch even in a contest rig is rather strange.

Since the rig is not approved yet by the FCC (has an application even been sent yet?) things may change, and this announcement may be a feeler to see what people think of it. Maybe there's a chance they'll put it back in (together with an analog meter, pretty please? :)  ).

73,
--Alex KR1ST