[VHFcontesting] New Gear at Dayton

[Bob Burns W9BU]

On 5/22/2018 12:34 AM, N8GLS wrote:
> I was a little disappointed in that Icom didn't even have the 9700 
> under glass for us, but, the Icom guys I talked to were disappointed 
> as well. The best I got was that it would be 9-12 months before 
> introduction here in the US. I think reality is Dayton 2019....but you 
> never know. 
The radio that Icom showed at the Tokyo Hamfair last summer was a 
"concept radio". I took that to mean that the engineers had mocked-up 
what they thought a new VHF/UHF base radio might look like using the 
IC-7300 SDR architecture as starting point. I got the impression that 
there was no guarantee that Icom would actually build the mocked-up 
radio, but that they were just testing the waters.

I have seen no official statement from Icom since then that would change 
my initial impression.

I'm not going to speculate on what Icom might be doing with the idea or 
when a prototype or pre-production version might appear in public. The 
2018 Tokyo Hamfair will be August 25-26. Maybe Icom will have something 
to show then.

Bob...