IC-7300 - Icom IC-7300 Transceiver REVEIW

Quote from: ZENKI on November 06, 2015, 04:32:58 AM

It will largely be a crippled SDR radio with token performance features like better than average phase noise and  just barely acceptable performance. Why I can safely say this is because all of Icoms current radio models are so lacking in performance and is  down on most of the receiver and  transmitter performance charts that its almost a joke.


Quote from: ZENKI on November 06, 2015, 04:32:58 AM

Why I am not so confident  in Icoms abilities is that you only have to look at the IC7850. The most expensive ham transceiver on the planet. According to the latest Radcom review. It has impressive receiver performance and ergonomics but everything else is about average to poor. The Icom recorded transmitter 3rd order IMD figure of -30Db  PEP. Which is shockingly poor for such an expensive 15000 dollar radio. Its S-meter  while linear in tracking is nowhere near the 6 Db per S Unit and fully calibrated. It reads 3bd per S-unit! Why  could they not have calibrated the S-meter and delivered a radio  with better transmitter IMD performance when it costs 15000 dollars? Its bordering on pathetic.  Now with this dismal IC-7850 performance can we expect the Little IC7300  to outperform the IC7850 in all areas like most of the other SDR radios brands outperform it? The answer would be an honest never, impossible  or not likely.

The big shame will be that ICOM will ruin the spectrally pure output of the 7300's TX DAC by crapping it out with a nasty 12 V PA like they have done in all their other Ham products.

I don't get why some people think the 7300 is a big deal.  Guys are pissing all over themselves since the 7300 was announced because it is a "direct sampling radio", but I doubt many of them know what they are so excited about other than the word "SDR"