Cost was a bit over $1,000 plus shipping/insurance costs both ways. I only had to send my IC-7800 back for repair once for a board replacement. And since this is a very heavy transceiver, shipping and insurance to ship it back for repair can be costly, and repairs can also be costly.
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Also the IC-7800 has limited spectrum display settings, although this issue wasn't apparent until I purchased a Flex 6xxx series transceiver. First, it's display always seemed too dim (even with settings turned all the way up). It performed excellent for its day, with almost lab test instrument precision.
dealers, and pricing should be available soon. There is even a separate preamp and mixer for the 6 meter band. It features two identical, fully independent, receiver circuits. The radio features an IP3 of +40dBm and 110db dynamic range. It utilizes four separate 32-bit floating point TI DSP chips, has a 7-inch wide TFT display, built in RTTY/PSK31 receive and transmit using a USB Keyboard interface, plus compact flash technology. ICOM believes it is the most advanced amateur radio ever developed. The ICOM 7800 HF/6M was first introduced at the Dayton Hamvention 2003. I suppose if you’re a retired brain surgeon or rocket scientist and the kids are all grown up and the house is paid off ………….EMail SubscriptionRegistered users are allowed to subscribe to specific review topics and receive eMail notifications when new reviews are posted. I have no idea how anyone could afford one of those. I’ve never owned anything like a IC-7800 or “super rig” of that type. I had that for 10+ years until I bought my K2 (which took me over a year to save up for) and I had that for 8 years until I got my current K3, which I bought with some money my Mom left me. I had that for many years until I sold it to buy an Icom IC-751A that was on close out. When I upgraded to General, I got my next rig, which was a Heathkit SB-104A which I built myself. These guys were changing rigs on a schedule like the rest of us were changing our underwear – it seemed like every day! I remember back to times when I would listen to the local 2 Meter repeater and would hear guys talk about having the latest mega-dollar rig and then getting rid of that for yet the even latest mega-dollar rig. Thanks for stopping by the blog Jeff and have a great week. Look FIST up on the net and see what you think of the buddy program. There are many clubs on the net that are more than happy to mentor you along your CW journey the FIST club has a buddy program for learning the code. Learning CW has it’s moments but one you get the hang of it….it’s a great mode. Jeff keep me posted if you find a kit and it’s true it is hard to find one under a 100.00. It is true as you said the spec sheets are very impressive but they are to me as well in another language!! I guess that is the tech side I have yet to grasp in the hobby. (CW, Digi or SSB) Once that was looked after (and it’s CW) I was then able to fashion a rig for my needs. Good morning Jeff, I want to start off by saying welcome to ham radio and you are going to have a blast!! As for the rigs I started off with some used gear, one reason being the price and the other I was not sure what part of the hobby I wanted to spend a lot of my time in.
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