[South Florida DX Association] Icom-7800 - First Experiences from an owner. (from the Icom list)

[Bruce Phegley]

excellent info, tnx

bmarx at bellsouth.net wrote:
> I received my IC-7800 Friday evening and have been spending quite a bit of
> time exploring its operation.
> 
> I put it on the LAN and promptly discovered that you can connect to it using
> telnet, but nothing else.  It does not respond to "pings" or any of the
> other common protocols such as ftp.
> 
> I scanned it with a port scanner and got quite a surprise.  The POP3 tcp
> port is open.  POP3 is a mail pickup protocol.  May be an oversight that it
> responds or it may be that there is some plan to do something with mail
> pickup.  Sounds strange.
> 
>>From telnet there are no useful commands clearly available.  There is a
> password command but I've tried several obvious passwords and they do
> nothing.  If anyone knows (not interested in guesses) the password I'd be
> interested in hearing of it!
> 
> I'm continuing to explore this.
> 
> Oh yes -- the radio is great.  Already interfaced to DX4WIN, Writelog,
> MMTTY, and MIXW.  Have connected the fiber optic digital audio connections
> to a fiber optic sound card and have that working with MMTTY and MIXW.
> There is a lot to this radio and I'm sure I'll be months finding everything.
> 
> I tested it in an SO2R environment with my 756PRO and worked several
> stations on both radios in this weekend's RTTY contest and the county
> hunter's party.
> 
> Oh yes -- even found one tiny bug in the software.  Nothing that needs to be
> fixed -- just a minor bug.
> 
> I've set up a web page discussing my experiences.  It is at:
> 
> http://www.wa0sxv.us/ic7800.html
> 
> 73,
> Mike WA0SXV
>  
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