New technologies from Icom at Tokyo Hamfair

News flash: QRP isn't even a technology. It's a range of power levels. Or, in this context, a market category consisting of transceivers with a particular range of output power levels.

I don't know if Icom is expressing an opinion of anyone's intelligence, but it does seem to want to leverage hams' brand loyalty, and the user interface it's developed for its other rigs, in a product it's introducing in this category. It remains to be seen if they are going to price it aggressively or if they're going to try to leverage their market clout to extract a premium price.

 

The thread about the radio is here: https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/presenting-the-new-icom-705.671608/
They are saying it will come out about 100,000 yen or $930 some dollars; premium price.

 

The issue of QST coverage is the delay before we get to see anything. So there is better coverage by individuals - - especially those who post videos

 

It's a print magazine. What do you expect?

 

Nothing more, for the print magazine, for now. The ARRL uses internet web pages, as well as Facebook and YouTube, where timely reports should be posted. Then when the print magazine finally arrives I want to see reports by ARRL staff members who were so fortunate as to attend.

 

Have you looked at their pages for reports? Do you subscribe to the ARRL (email) letter?

 

I do subscribe to the ARRL Letter (by Email) and the various ARRL web pages. If the ARRL staff members shown in photos attending the Tokyo Hamfair posted timely report(s) there, I would be satisfied.