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N5PG

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Re: IC7610 New one in the pipeline?
« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2021, 07:57:24 PM »

Anyway wonder if you ever came across my mentor g3rpb (sk) Keith Spicer? cheers Geoff w6uxb/g3uxb

Butting in, sri, but g3rpb is sk, when?
Wks him in 60s mini times when I was G3RRF.
73 Paul N5PG
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VE3WGO

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Re: IC7610 New one in the pipeline?
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2021, 11:44:50 AM »

With Hamvention cancelled again this year, one can only hope that there will still be some new radios announced in the mid-year
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K0UA

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Re: IC7610 New one in the pipeline?
« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2021, 04:48:55 PM »

Looks like the 7300 just got a free face-lift with the 1.40 firmware upgrade. Many changes, most of them small, but a lot of convenience features.
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Re: IC7610 New one in the pipeline?
« Reply #18 on: March 01, 2021, 12:24:46 PM »

There's a big hole in the ICOM line for an all-band mobile replacement for the IC-7000/7100 that's small enough to mount in a vehicle and rated at full power. An IC-705 with an attached power amp might be an option.
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Re: IC7610 New one in the pipeline?
« Reply #19 on: March 01, 2021, 12:33:39 PM »

With Hamvention cancelled again this year

Bet everyone was happy about that. I am happy someone else makes my decisions.
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G8FXC

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Re: IC7610 New one in the pipeline?
« Reply #20 on: March 01, 2021, 12:56:34 PM »

There's a big hole in the ICOM line for an all-band mobile replacement for the IC-7000/7100 that's small enough to mount in a vehicle and rated at full power. An IC-705 with an attached power amp might be an option.

It would seem to be a worthwhile low-cost option to put the 705 guts into some derivative of the 7300 case and produce an up-to-date 100W shack-in-a-box.

Martin (G8FXC)
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VE3WGO

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« Reply #21 on: March 01, 2021, 05:35:46 PM »

...or better yet, a desktop dock with built-in 100W PA's and DC power, maybe even an HF/VHF/UHF triplexer for independent antenna connectors, to drop the 705 into.

73, Ed
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K7JQ

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Re: IC7610 New one in the pipeline?
« Reply #22 on: March 02, 2021, 08:17:43 AM »

There's a big hole in the ICOM line for an all-band mobile replacement for the IC-7000/7100 that's small enough to mount in a vehicle and rated at full power. An IC-705 with an attached power amp might be an option.

It would seem to be a worthwhile low-cost option to put the 705 guts into some derivative of the 7300 case and produce an up-to-date 100W shack-in-a-box.

Martin (G8FXC)

Then there would be no need to buy a 7300 and 9700 ::). Icom and vendors make more $$ selling separates. It's called merchandising ;)
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G8FXC

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Re: IC7610 New one in the pipeline?
« Reply #23 on: March 03, 2021, 06:24:32 AM »

I doubt it would make much difference to the sales of the 9700 - that is an expensive, specialist, high performance radio. It would plug the approaching gap for a shack-in-a-box as they have to admit that the 7100 is rapidly approaching its end-of-life. They must be losing sales to the FT-991A these days - I've recently bought one of them as a VHF/UHF all-modes unit. If it were not for its dire spectrum scope, it would be a serious competitor for the 7300 that I use for HF.

Martin
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KX2T

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Re: IC7610 New one in the pipeline?
« Reply #24 on: June 11, 2021, 07:30:36 AM »

I think if Icom really wanted to grab the market between the 7300 and the 7610 they would come out with a radio with a 6" color touch screen, have one of the receive sections of the 7610 along with the Digi select in the front end, have a DVI output plus I/Q like the 7610, two antenna ports plus maybe 2 meters in the mix but that last option would kind of raise the price range a bit but be in the $2K range. Adding two would be nice but 160 threw 6 is more doable for the price. The problem with the 705 is Icom wanted to get a slice of the QRP market that Elecraft basically owns but its a DC to light radio so the buyers is someone who likes to experiment but seems to me it sell for about a year then sales figures drop off fast.
The 7300 is still selling but nowhere near two years ago but its still sold on price for performance cause its become the swiss army knife of radio's.
There 7610 has started to slow down cause of there long wait on replacing the screen issue plus the Yaesu FTDX101D has taken some of the market sales away but still one of the better stand alone SDR rigs out there. A single RX section version of the 7610 would be a good in between the 7300 and the 7610 cause right now the Yaesu FTDX10 is becoming the next jump up from the 7300 so Icom is losing sales in this area but Icom placed all of there apples to the 705 which really did not pan out to be another 7300, kind of a should have would have could have thing.
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KQ4KK

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Re: IC7610 New one in the pipeline?
« Reply #25 on: June 11, 2021, 09:49:46 AM »

DX Engineering has a new interview with Ray Novak, USA ICOM.
- USA is still selling 7651, but not in EU.
- No update to 7100.
-No update to 7610.
- 52 maybe by the end of the year.
-PW2 not on the horizon.
- ICOM prices are rising due to shipping.
- Put ferrites on coax and USB cables on the 705/computer to stop RF. Also, use a longer coax. This is a problem with end fed antennas.
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KX2T

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Re: IC7610 New one in the pipeline?
« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2021, 02:23:41 PM »

Nothing new just like the new displays were coming for over two years for the 7610 which I still own, hell if I had a refund of the three trips to there service center that would be half the price of a new 7300!
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