NEW Icom IC-905 VHF/UHF/SHF FIRST LOOK! 144MHz-10GHz

About the only thing you can work on ten GHZ are the automatic door openers at Home Depot.

 

It's not just their new offerings...Icom rigs have had that problem since the IC-751; the 765 was a particularly horrible offender as well, and those rigs were discontinued around 25-30 years ago.

 

Wow, you really need to get out more often. There is a lot of long haul 10 GHz activity taking place on tropo, rain scatter, and EME.

 

The field of microwave communications was in the past more a section for handy men with very good knowings in much specialist sections. Thats why 2 to 10 GHz isnt so present.

 

Morning,
Do you have the new beam up and on the air ?
I recently purchased a 9700 and am looking for a
one size fits all solution, for Horizontal.

 

No, not yet. It is assembled but only have one side painted so far---but a great deal of other non-ham work came up in the meantime (painting our stucco house as well as staging our other home before going on the market).

Once I get the Create antenna completely painted and installed I'll post something here or in the Antennas forum.

Since you are looking for a "one size fits all" solution I seriously doubt there is anything else out there that qualifies---except, of course, it's "little brother" the 2m through 23cm smaller version (I think the model number is almost the same, maybe 5130-2 or similar)---and that would be a perfect fit for an Icom 9700, too!

Despite the difficulty I had in figuring out the meticulous assembly required I would recommend this very well-engineered antenna wholeheartedly.

73,

Jeff

 

Sticking with the ICOM SHF theme, it would be great if ICOM, since they are already dabbling in SHF, duplicate transceivers such as Microtik and Ubiquiti. They would be flashable for the ARDEN Mesh and be used for point-to-point backbones. Make two trancievers that mount right into the dish. One for 3cm (10GHz) and one for 12mm (24Ghz) (Ham radio is the primary on this band!) Make the transmitters 1 watt and .5 watts respectively if possible. Each band has 50 MHz of bandwidth, much more room than the crowded 5cm (5.8GHz) band where we are secondary! Ahhhh, we can only dream!

 

With the proliferation of the new
ICOM IC-905

it’s resurrection might be a matter of time …
Lol


Humans can’t be resurrected

but sure a dead band can !!!

73
and
Happy 10 GHZ resurrection day to you all

KD2BBC
Miguel Ferrier

 

Yup it’s getting much better up there …

we may call this an Evolution as well

this is the new normal for Amateur Radio
Let us all get used to it and explore …

Well well said !!!

can’t wait to place my
Order for the new IC-905

I just wished the built it like the IC-9700

well in general you can never have it your way all the times in life … huh unless you go to BK … lol

we just gotta go with the flow and have some fun with it .

hello YAESU & KENWOOD !!!

What’s cooking with you two guys ?

 

*Requires CX-10G transverter

$$?

 

Perhaps "in Missouri"... But it's alive in EU, VK, the Western USA and other areas

 

I dont get your point, thats what I said, no action
here in the midwest.

 

RR