Won't matter if they just release another useless crap touch screen transceiver which removed me from the market of buying a New ICOM ever gain. Clayton W4KVW
Sorry OM, but your last transmission was incoherent. Try switching out of Class A mode and kicking in the 200 watt mode. Better yet, let’s table this discussion until the propagation forecast calls for a lower obfuscation index. 73! Soliloquy: “Wow, was that a weird QSO or what?! Let’s give the VFO a good spin and see if we can find any signs of intelligent life out there…”
Just what we need- less MFGs of radios- so the choices will decrease and prices will rise. We need more choices and more radios- this will drive prices down and the market (supply and demand) will decide the price. I have two Icom radios and I also have a Yaesu. And you know what--- due to the overshoot problem with my Icom 9100 I have issues using my $3K 144 kilowatt Beko amplifier. BUT, I can use my old 736R that is like 20+ years old and it works great. I say keep these radios coming I may even buy an SDR the 9700 is coming and I hope they solve the overshoot problem.
This is insane is a all out war,bet yaesu and icom they make a new radio and withing few weeks they come out with a new version, and those that they want to be on top , well they are throwing the money down the drain.there fore they making them rich and enjoying the war who is going to make more $$ in this insane war. BE WISE.. KC2TE
looks like a FTDX 1200 0r 3000 , hope the waterfall is better on these SDR radios , I wonder what the retailprice will be , but as one can see SDR radios are taking over , I wonder what Kenwood is doing about SDR , let the price-battle between Icom and Yaesu begin
Looks like a nice enough modern radio to preserve the FT-101x linage but no matter what they come up with it will NEVER be the same because it was as much the era as it was the equipment. I doubt that very many of the new rigs will gain a cult following of such magnitude as their forerunners of yesteryear. But I am glad to see that in 2018 amateur radio is still important enough to Yaesu, Icom, and Kenwood that they continue to produce new models .
