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

[Don\]

Agree completely - but the emotion demonstrated by some is quite 
entertaining!

K1VSK

OK Guys, Enough is enough !! This is getting old quick. Can we move on? 
Obviously. Some of you Like the rig while others hate it. SO WHAT? Get over 
it. 3 days of bantering back and forth on here is starting to sound like a 
school yard.




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> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 04:37:14 -0700
> From: pearly732003 at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [ICOM] Icom 7200 at Dayton Big Disappointment???
> To: icom at mailman.qth.net
>
> Gerry, wake up there is more important stuff than FM.
> I left that mode alone when I got my Extra Class
> License! Go out and buy yourself a FM radio and that
> will be the smart thing to do....
>
> Paul, KD3JF
> --- Gerry Pement  wrote:
>
>> Hello Icom !!
>>
>> Wake-up Where's FM on the new IC-7200? I was shocked
>> by the omission of
>> that mode. FM was missing on the IC-718. Prior to
>> the IC-718 every other
>> Icom introduced in the past 1/4 Century had FM mode.
>> Even the venerable
>> old IC-740 had FM as a option. Available as a
>> option also in the IC-745
>> and low end Rigs IC-725-707. Higher end rigs and the
>> great old IC-735
>> all had FM Mode standard equipment. What good is
>> having coverage on 6
>> Meters and completely MISS THE BOAT on the new
>> IC-7200 by leaving off
>> the FM Mode? That 7200 will be Icom's First Rig to
>> have 6 Meters and
>> leave off FM Mode. Come On ICOM Even your old IC-726
>> & IC-728 early HF/6
>> Meter rigs had FM standard equipment! Even the
>> Venerable Old Yaesu
>> FT-757GX included FM as Standard Equipment and that
>> Classic Celebrates
>> it's 25th Birthday this Month. I think it was
>> introduced at Dayton '83
>> and first Advertised in June '83 Issue of TCA Mag.
>> Canada's equivalent
>> of QST Mag. at that time put out by CARF. The "New"
>> IC-7200 is not gonna
>> create much excitement, and is not very New by
>> leaving off the Important
>> *FM mode for 6 Meter operators. *I'm afraid Yaesu
>> these days are
>> offering Hams more than Icom in the lower end of
>> rigs. I thought that
>> new IC-7200 was something exciting when I first saw
>> the Photos at the
>> Tokyo Ham Fair event last August. That IC-718 is now
>> getting Stale on
>> the market is now outgunned with Yaesu's FT-450 and
>> FT-897D offerings
>> doing so well in the "Affordable" market. That new
>> FT-950 Yaesu
>> introduced at the same time as the IC-7200 was
>> Talked About and is still
>> only "Talked About", was on the Dealers Shelves and
>> in shacks 6 weeks
>> weeks later. Was the IC-7200 shown at Dayton even
>> working Yet??? or just
>> a stagnant display Item! That FT-950 is giving the
>> now getting stale
>> "Trouble Prone" TX and Display Backlight failure's
>> Galore IC-746Pro a
>> good run for It's Money. So far no major Reliability
>> Problems have
>> cropped up on the new FT-950 like the Dead TX issue
>> of the IC-746 Pro. I
>> am afraid Yaesu today has become No 1 in the
>> marketplace.
>> 73
>> Gerry VE7BGP
>>
>> Alex wrote:
>>
>> -------------- Original message from Gary
>> : --------------
>>
>>
>>> I was very disappointed by the lack of
>>> FM and signalling (according to the brochure). I
>> found the control head easy to
>>> use and had every hope of buying a couple 7200's
>> this year but without FM and
>>> signalling I may not buy at all. What was Icom
>> thinking?
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like it's going to be a replacement for the
>> IC-718 (and the IC-78 probably). I think that the
>> omission of FM is a good thing because then you
>> don't have to design a rig that has to pass a wide
>> FM signal through its filters. But for your
>> application that may indeed not be a good thing.
>>
>> "What, no FM?" Now that is truly an omission of a
>> feature to pack more performance in a small package.
>> ;-)
>>
>> 73,
>> --Alex KR1ST
>> http://www.kr1st.com
>>
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