parnass@ihu1h.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S) (08/04/85)
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ICOM IC-R7000 VHF/UHF RECEIVER
ICOM announced their new scanning vhf/uhf receiver at
the recent ANARC convention in Milwaukee. From the
spec sheet given me, this radio will give Yaesu a run
for its money.
The new R7000 looks just like its hf cousin, the R71A,
with a keyboard and infrared sensor on the front panel.
It covers 25-1000 and 1240-1300 MHz continuously, with
conventional tuning or 99 memories.
There are detectors for FM, AM, and SSB. Both fre-
quency and mode information may be stored into the
memory channels, which are backed up by a lithium bat-
tery. I don't know if critical model-dependent
parameters are stored in the RAM, as in the R71A, which
would force the owner to send the receiver back to ICOM
for reprogramming when the lithium batter fails.
As with the R71A, there is a fluorescent display with
dimmer switch, a noise blanker, and a dial lock. The
S-meter can also be used as a center tuning meter.
There are several switches to control scanning and
searching modes, but nobody knows yet how well or fast
it scans. There is a priority scan mode, which is not
explained in the literature.
A rotary switch on the front panel selects tuning steps
of 0.1, 1, 5, 10, 12.5, or 25 kHz. Other controls
include an attenuator switch and a way to
select/deselect memory channels for scanning (hopefully
like a lockout feature, sorely lacking on the Yaesu).
Narrow/wide filter selection is also provided.
Options include a speech synthesizer and wireless
infrared RC-12 remote control unit.
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Bob Parnass, Bell Telephone Laboratories - ihnp4!ihu1h!parnass - (312)979-5414john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore) (08/12/85)
In article <643@ihu1h.UUCP> parnass@ihu1h.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S) writes: >x > ICOM IC-R7000 VHF/UHF RECEIVER > > the recent ANARC convention in Milwaukee. From the > spec sheet given me, this radio will give Yaesu a run > for its money. > > The new R7000 looks just like its hf cousin, the R71A, I hear that a computer controlled interface for the R71A will be published in September or October Popular Communications. I hope that it will also work for the R7000, since the %$#(!!) ICOM folks left it out and won't even talk about it! Also, the specs I saw at HAMCON (Long Beach 8/10) were continuous coverage from 25-2000 MHZ, with specs guaranteed to 1300 MHz. By the way, I saw the Yaesu FRG-9600 running under computer control at the convention, and it is FAST (20-50 channels/sec)! However, if someone can kludge the same capability ine of lab equipment. -- John Moore (NJ7E) {decvax|ihnp4|hao}!noao!terak!anasazi!john (602) 952-8205 (day or evening)