Icom IC-7300

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Icom IC-7300 is an amateur radio - transceiver ( English transceiver ) of the Japanese manufacturer Icom for the short wave - amateur radio bands as well as the 6-meter and 4-meter band . It serves as a station radio within an amateur radio station , but can also be used as a mobile radio station, for example in a car .

history

The device was presented to a larger audience for the first time in August 2015 at the Ham Fair , an international trade fair for amateur radio technology that takes place annually in the Japanese capital, Tokyo . It received full attention after its official market launch in March 2016, then in May of the same year at the Hamvention , an American counterpart to the Ham Fair , which is held every year in Dayton ( Ohio ).

properties

The receiver uses software defined radio (SDR) technology with direct digital conversion of the RF signal received via the connected antenna . When it was first released, it was the first transceiver with direct scanning from the antenna to be built by the international amateur radio manufacturers. Further features are the touch-sensitive color display with the representation of the frequency spectrum called " waterfall display " , the integrated antenna tuner and the integrated sound card , which means that digital operating modes such as FT8 can be implemented comparatively easily.

The amateur radio magazine CQ DL of the German Amateur Radio Club (DARC) came to the following conclusion after a detailed metrological test of the transceiver:

"The IC-7300 is a modern, direct scanning KW / 50/70-MHz transceiver and is characterized by HF direct scanning, real-time spectrum scope, an RMDR with 97 dB at 1 kHz, IP + function and a color touchscreen display and antenna tuner out."

- Werner Schnorrenberg, DC4KU : CQ DL September 2019

Technical specifications

  • Dimensions (L × W × H): 238 mm × 240 mm × 94 mm
  • Weight: 4.2 kg
  • Frequency: amateur radio bands from 160 m to 4 m
  • Transmission power: max. 100 W

See also

literature

  • Andrew Barron: The radiotoday guide to the Icom IC-7300. RSGB , Bedford 2019, ISBN 978-1093771336 .
  • Bern Petermann, Adam Farson: Software-defined radio completely autonomous - Icom IC-7300. Two-part test in Funkamateur 7/2016, p. 620 ff and 8/2016, p. 724 ff.
  • Andreas Schulze, Marc Michalzik: Icom IC-7300 in the test - the "revolutionary". Two-part test in CQ DL 9/2016, p. 29 ff and 10/2016, p. 18 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "SDR transceiver from Icom", Funkamateur 10/2015, p. 1036
  2. ↑ "JARL Ham Fair 2015", radio amateur 10/2016, p. 1041
  3. ↑ Thorsten Schmidt, "IC-7300 - The new SDR from Icom", CQ DL 10/2015, p. 21
  4. ↑ Experience report of a radio amateurs from DLØSP.de , accessed on June 29, 2019.
  5. ↑ Andreas Schulze, “Icom IC-7300 im Test - The 'Revolutionary'”, CQ DL 9/2016, p. 29 ff.
  6. ↑ IC-7300 checked at the measuring station at darc.de , accessed on September 3, 2019.
  7. ↑ Data sheet at www.funkamateur.de (PDF; 1.0 MB), accessed on June 29, 2019.