My Elmers swayed me away from new cheap radio's. Instead they steered me to older proven good radio's to start with. They also told me to research all radio's up for sale , new and old.
The processor in this radio is not used for signal processing, but as a microcontroller to control codecs, memory and screen.
Are you 100% sure about that?? USA is one of the few countries that actually has stringent guidelines regarding MADE IN USA, the others don't. If the item does not a have any identification as to country of origin you can pretty well assume where it came from.
I can see how the Q-900 would make a decent portable station, 20 watts and fully software defined. I have not seen specs on it as far as receive bandwith options, or sensitivity, but for the price it might be OK. It is certainly less expensive than the IC-705, but I suspect the receiver is not as good.
Instead of bashing a product that most don't even have, I do a lot of QSO with FT4/FT8 and SSB with low power. And it works. So my HS2 works very well with "modified" firmware.
Que? The Cortex-M7F core (the one that's being used in this TX) dates from 2017 and is a really high performance core. I wouldn't call that exactly "so yesterday"... The fact that the Cortex-M was introduced 11 years ago doesn't mean it's an outdated technology in my opinion. A lot of new varieties are being introduced still.
Tell me please what "Made in ... " means ... https://www.ab4oj.com/nsprog/icom2010.pdf https://www.icomjapan.com/company/company_profile/ https://www.icomamerica.com/en/about/Quality.pdf
One thing I really like about this radio is how the waterfall is presented. All mainstream radios with a spectrum scope set to center mode show a slanted image when you turn the VFO to a different frequency, which makes is difficult to tune to a signal you see. This radio moves the entire waterfall image when you change frequency, which makes it much easier to "tune in" on a line on the waterfall. I really wish my Icom and Yaesu radios had this too.
I am an embedded system programmer too and I still use 8-bit AVR's... About to switch to ARM for a few applications.
I worked up a basic operator's manual on a G1M -CORE. Fellow shipped it up to me. I've said more than once, if gifted a G1M (or any of the predecessors) I would give it away. IMO, literarily - not worth owing. Ran HOT even in just RX mode. Zero factory support Well known problem with the key and mike jacks separating for the board. Flashing new software is a crapshoot on bricking the rig. NO thanks. I find it amusing that the OP shows V3 now has problems fixed. How many hams were the unpaid beta testers?
Because there is no knob, only a keypad entry? Could very well be mistaken as a sturdy and reliable Debeg, Furuno, Sailor or whatever HF/MF Marine Transceiver, especially in the soaked picture Oliver
