[ICOM] Icom 7200 at Dayton Big Disappointment???

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

I believe Adam alluded to a 6 kHz roofing filter. 
That would NOT be software defined, if I properly 
understand what a roofing filter does.  A 6 kHz 
roofing filter would preclude "normal" FM which, 
as used in North America, would require a 15 kHz 
roofing filter and would result in greatly reduced 
performance with SSB, CW, and narrow data 
modes.  If the 7200 turns out to be a transceiver 
with greatly improved HF performance at price 
which is reduced from what is currently offered, 
I say BRAVO indeed! 
 
73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 
Oklahoma City, OK 
 
 
 
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> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 13:25:21 -0700 
> From: n6lrv at cox.net 
> To: icom at mailman.qth.net 
> Subject: Re: [ICOM] Icom 7200 at Dayton Big Disappointment??? 
> 
> This can not be the case. The 7200 like so many radios these days is software defined. The 
> inclusion of FM and signaling would have resulted in the addition of very little hardware if any 
> at all. To produce another multimode/multiband transceiver for amateurs and not include FM & 
> signaling is ridiculously stupid. How and why their marketing people would let this get by is 
> incomprehensible. The recent increases in 6m activity on all modes is in large part due to these 
> multiband/multimode radios. The 7200 would sell much better with it than without. What's really 
> ridiculous is that they aren't willing to speak honestly on the subject. When I asked an Icom 
> America rep at Dayton about this he shrugged his shoulders and said "I don't know why". Simply 
> unacceptable. I'm very disappointed in Icom again. 
> Gary 
> N6LRV 
> 
> 
> 
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> D C *Mac* Macdonald wrote: 
> 
>> If, as Adam has suggested may be possible, the FM capability 
>> had been omitted by Icom's engineers to provide a far more 
>> capable HF performance in conditions of intense RF density, 
>> then I'd say that the omission of a mode that might interest 
>> less than one tenth of a percent of operators was a superb 
>> decision! 
>> 
>> 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 
>> Oklahoma City, OK