Thanks to everyone for all the information provided. It's nice to see there are
options to adding an external receive antenna to the '7300. They both seem like
good solutions but Icom could have made things a lot easier by just adding the
external RX antenna port to the radio to begin with. It would have added some
cost but it seems to me it would have been worth it.
73, Don AA5AU
From: Don AA5AU <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
To: "RTTY@contesting.com" <RTTY@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] New Radio
I've been looking closely at the IC-7300 myself. It comes highly recommended by
a couple of people I trust. The only thing I don't like about it is that it
doesn't have a separate receive antenna port when I need for 160M.
I see the TS-590SG does not have a band scope but the '7300 does. I think
that's a very valuable feature to have in a radio. If the '590 has an external
IF output (like the TS-870) then you can create a band scope on your PC using
an inexpensive SDR. But so far I can't find where it does.
Don AA5AU
From: Sean Waite <waisean@gmail.com>
To: Alan <alan@wd9gmk.net>; RTTY@contesting.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] New Radio
The Kenwood TS590SG and ICOM IC-7300 radios are frequently listed as the
best you can get without spending Elecraft money, and if I had the money to
burn I'd probably have one of them.
73,
Sean WA1TE
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:37 PM Alan <alan@wd9gmk.net> wrote:
> It is time to buy a replacement for the FT-990. Fried something during
> the CQWW RTTY Test.
>
> I am looking for advice.
>
> What new rig would you buy for less than $2000?
>
> Alan
>
> WD9GMK
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