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

Thu May 22 13:15:35 EDT 2008

I will second that motion.
--- Cyrus Turner <w5dxe at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> 
> 
> 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
> >>
> >> ----
> >> Your Moderator: Dick Flanagan K7VC:
> >> icom-owner at mailman.qth.net
> >> Icom Users Net: Sundays, 1700Z, 14.316 MHz
> >> Icom FAQ: http://www.qsl.net/icom/
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----
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