[RTTY] New Radio

[Don AA5AU]

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 at bellsouth.net>
 To: "RTTY at contesting.com" <RTTY at 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 at gmail.com>
 To: Alan <alan at wd9gmk.net>; RTTY at 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 at 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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