More than one station on a band during FD will also be a problem. Weak point, however, would be in Field Day * without external bandpass filters. I have heard on the air and seen on the 7300 reflector that the 7300 isn’t good enough to be a contest radio. Same would be true on an E skip opening on 6 meters. The Bandscope is an absolute necessity in a contest, 160 or 10 meters or any band in-between. I would say the 7300 is better than all of these as far as beingĮasy to use. Hope for the sun to wake up.Ĭomparing the 7300 to the TS-590S or SG, the Eagle or Orion II, etc. With the narrow CW bandwidth, impulse noise capturing the AGC is a non issue. I updated firmware to 1.14 and after that made a few more Qs. During nighttime hours I backed off the RF gain so band noise was just showing up on the Bandscope.Īt 8 a.m.I never use IP+, a totally useless feature.NR set to 4 which really reduced fatigue with no obvious “bad cell phone” sound.Users may have problems with other types of amplifiers that don’t have this feature. This, but that isn’t the way to solve the problem. I hope Icom fixes the transmitter’s “key-up tail” one of these days, but my Alpha 89 or Acom 1000 won’t un-key until all RF is gone so they have no problem with It could also use a 5 dB / division scaling since few stations It needs an option to make it taller vertically in some mode and leave out the waterfall. While I wish the Bandscope / waterfall display had more options, theīandscope did the job very well. I have zero complaints about using it in a CW contest. 320 Qs, 55K points, a little under last year’s 63K points (all search and I really enjoyed using the IC-7300 during this weekend’s ARRL 160-meter CW contest. USING THE ICOM IC-7300 IN THE ARRL 160m CW CONTEST
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