IC-7300 is now selling for $889 everywhere (DXE, Gigaparts, HRO).
#IC7300
The #hamradio #CQWW is largely a bust for me. Solo op and 8hrs scattered over 3 sessions and I have a total of 40 contacts. Bleach. Now we did have a rain storm over night and this morning. FT8 showed that propagation was horrible, so that could be it. But dang if that isn't discouraging. Could hear many ops but couldn't get them to hear me. #ic7300 and 100W on an end fed random draped over my house roof ~30ft AGL.
@kb6nu One trap that got me several times with the #IC7300 with Ubuntu-Mate was that while audio to the computer worked, I had to set the volume from the computer to the radio way over 100% otherwise the transmit power level was only about 5W.
It turned out the 7300 needs to the in USB-D (data) mode for the computer audio to be routed in the radio correctly. I'd had it in USB (upper sideband) - not USB-D.
As soon as I set it to USB-D, the transmit power was fine. The 7610 may be similar ...
Der Icom IC-7300 bekommt eine Modellpflege namens MKII. Die Liste der neuen Features liest sich gut. Ich bin mal gespannt, wie sich das in € ausdrückt.
https://icomuk.co.uk/Icom-Unveils-the-IC-7300MK2-The-Evolution-of-a-HF-Legend/2/5232/
@kr1st I found a couple of local #6meter #repeaters. I'll give them a try. I found this video for programming the #IC7300 for repeaters. fun stuff. https://youtu.be/LOrKUcs0eac?feature=shared
One of next week’s #HamRadioGoals will be to stop just talking about it & get some form of #FT8 -ish comms up & running. (The somewhat conversational variety that lets you type almost free-flow is the one I’ll be after.) I have an #IC7300 that has seen very little use & a small Gateway notebook that I think will be sufficient. So… I’ll do the research, but does anyone have suggestions for their top pick for a best website or YouTube chan / video perhaps? #KE0FFT #AmateurRadio #HamRadio
hunting #pota #FT8 on 40m in one machine. Listening to #EarthWindAndFire on the other. Doesn't get any betta than that... #amateurradio #blackjoy #Blackmastodon #BlacksInScience #ic7300
Baby steps. Not quite ready to transmit yet. But… the IC-7300 / Tablet setup is receiving. Following along with a WSJT-X setup video made by K8MRD. #IC7300 #IC7300ft8 #KE0FFT #KE0FFTft8 #WSJTx
Back in 2022 I flew to AZ and took my IC7300 with me. I signed in at the Titan Missile Museum south of Tucson and got permission to use the discone at the facility. The antenna is 80 feet tall and has great SWRs on all frequencies. The tuner within the 7300 didn't need to work hard at all. #amatureradio #hamradio #discone #ic7300
Museum info here: https://titanmissilemuseum.org/
Today I did some #ft8 on #15m and #10m with my new #IC7300. Band conditions are really good today. #HamRadio #Amateurfunk #Amateurradio
Thanks to Eric N2EPE, I recently learned about W4DD’s neat program for radio frequency interference (RFI) mapping named, helpfully, “RFI Mapper.” I emailed him for a copy and got a quick reply with clear instructions. Thanks Jeff! Note that this is a Windows program.
Helpful links to learn more:
– https://www.qrz.com/DB/W4DD
– https://www.gars.org/presentations/2020-02-11 – Locating Power Line and other RF Noise – Jeff Stuparits W4DD.pdf
While testing with my home station, and IC-7300, the only issue I ran into was that the radio would key whenever I ran the program. That makes it hard to measure and creates QRM! The cause was that I have RTS keying set up, probably something to do with Winlink and/or fldigi.
Anyway, here’s how to get to the RTS setting in case you (or me in the future) need to:
- Menu (physical button)
- Set
- Connectors
- USB Send/Keying
- USB Send
- Off (neither RTS nor DTS)
The program covers several models of radio, but the IC-7300 is the only one I have a cable for at the moment. This type of thing is intriguing from a “how many ways are there to do this” perspective, which gets my gears turning. For example, KA7OEI did a similar project back in 2001: http://www.ka7oei.com/ft817_rptmon.html (and props to Clint for keeping a website up these last 23 years!). Could we do it with an SBC or an Arduino? Could we do it with a QMX? Sounds like fun…
New entry in my online journal about my first 30 days with my new Icom IC-7300.
https://journal.seefar.dev/sections/New_Radio_IC7300/
This one is a little all over the place. I digress towards the end with a Chat GPT analysis of an adif file export of my activity, to date, with the radio.
There's a lot more I could get into on Chat GPT and ADIF but it probably deserves its own post.
I recently scored three dell thin clients for under £8 each.
Spec is similar ballpark to a raspberry pi, but with an x86 chipset and so much cheaper!
One of them will become a standalone #speakingClock system for the #DeanForestRailway #strowger #telephoneExchange (replacing a #museum exhibit that went offline in ~ 2019)
One of them will probably become a remote control host for my #icom #ic7300
The last one is likely to be kept as a spare for now, unless I can come up with another project.
The #IC7300 did not like my fat fingers in factory default configuration. Very difficult to set the modulation mode. I could make it work with a plastic stylus as supplied with my #nanoVNA, tho. There's a fix for that in the #Icom IC-7300 FULL manual. Using the touch screen calibration fixed it right up.
@bradbrownjr got it! Had to change the PTT port to "COM3" (my #IC7300) *not* "CAT". On the rig, "USB SEND" *does* need to be set to "RTS", it can't be "OFF".
Now I can transmit the calibration tones from #SoundModem as well as try to send commands from #EasyTerm and have the radio key up.
Phew. That's enough for today!
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