I've been running the IC-7200 for several months now and love it. The twin pass band filter and narrow filters work great and allow me to block out everything above and below the desired signal on the waterfal.
The rig is simple to use but has a lot of great features. It's build like a tank and you can even take it in the field on a rainy day and not worry about getting it wet. It's also full duty cycle so I never have to worry about running more than 50w on digital (which I seldom do with the exception of MT63 and Olivia if conditions are really poor). Even at a high duty cycle, the rig never gets very hot to the touch. THe front firing speaker is another thing I like for field ops under noisy conditions but here in the shack I have a good bookshelf speaker plugged in. I can't say much bad about the rig other than I wish it had the standard 6 pin din connector. It has the 13 pin Icom jack for data but also has a USB connector. The last time I looked it's $900 on AES. Be forewarned, though... no 2m/70cm, no auto tuner and no FM. It's strictly 160-6 SSB, AM, CW, RTTY. I have the rig paired with the Signalink USB and an LDG Z-11 Pro tuner to either my G5RV or 66' doublet -Dave, KB3FXI --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "kd7jeh" <kd7...@...> wrote: > > Merry Christmas to the Group, > > I am looking to buy another HF radio for PSK/digital. I am asking what > features I look for and why. Next question, what radio offers more bang for > the money and why? > > I would like to buy new but will consider a used one of older model not in > current production. > > Kd7jeh >
