[Yaesu] Yes the Icom 7200 at Dayton A Big Disappointment!!!

[John Geiger]

Wouldn't affect me at all if they left AM off also!

73s John AA5JG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Ed Moore" <k5bm at swbell.net>
To: <yaesu at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:42 PM
Subject: [Yaesu] Yes the Icom 7200 at Dayton A Big Disappointment!!!


> Hooray for no FM. It's a waste on my rigs. Get a handi talkie.
>                                  Tom
>                                 k5bm
>                       
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gerry Pement" <ve7bgp at shaw.ca>
> To: <yaesu at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:17 PM
> Subject: [Yaesu] Yes the Icom 7200 at Dayton A Big Disappointment!!!
> 
> 
> Hello Fellow Yaesu Users
>   Where's FM on the new IC-7200? Kenwood has only 2 HF rigs now nothing
> new from Kenwood at Dayton. 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.   Even Icom's 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 very Stale on the market is now
> out gunned with Yaesu's FT-450 and FT-897D offerings doing so well in
> the "Affordable" market. That excitting 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.
> Read its very favorable March 2008 QST Review. Was the IC-7200 shown at
> Dayton even working Yet??? or just a stagnant display Item! Another
> year? Waiting For What ICOM? Missing FM Mode?? before that rig see
> Dealer Shelves. 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
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