[TenTec] VERY Interesting News...

[Grant Youngman]

> for the ICOM IC-7800 that they are ALL having to be "Recalled" to
> Japan. 

I've been following the 7800 on the Yahoo group.  This "recall" or 
whatever it is apparently only affects the early radios shipped to JA 
and Europe.  No info on what the problem is/was -- but since Icom 
needs the radios back it must either be a real circuit update or Icom 
can only update firmware at a service facility at this point.

No one seems to know definitively quite how a firmware update is 
going to be done by the user yet.  The manual is moot on the 
subject.

I did finally have a chance to get up close and personal with one at 
Dallas Ham-Com today.  Nice radio, no question.

There are a few lone soles beginning to report some issues with it 
as well.  Apparently it isn't sheer perfection either :-)

Grant/NQ5T