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Video/review of the revolutionary Icom-7300 Software defined Export CB
- Thread starter jdobbs2001
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1) ... The Icom 7300 is not an export CB radio ........
2) ... The fan is always running when the radio is in transmit, always ......
A good antenna is important but there's no replacement for displacement. There never will be either.
Correct but it is very quiet and its off immediately on transmit end. The fan never kicks in otherwise Icom did a great job selecting components and thermal engineering. This thing just loafs at full output power. The receive uses less than 900mA of power. You can run this radio all day long at 84 degree ambient temperature environment and the unit will run cool and comfortable and fans never need to kick in to remove excess heat just on receive.
The unit is so tiny. I did this quick video and you can see how small it is compared to the rest of this setup. (temp station using portable antenna)
Amazing PBT filter performance, it will knock out nasty QRM allowing recovery of audio. That radio station is a good test of receiver performance, its a low power station in south America in the noiser section of HF. I am able to receive it with the Sirio 5000 antenna even with a strong signal almost on top of it. IC-7300 beats out the WJ-8711 for tough signal recovery.
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I have seen plenty of that myself. When you add up the total for all the stuff it really adds up. 300 here 200 there 500 here etc.. ads up quick and like you say, lots of quantity but poor quality. The prices of Export radios have been going up lately even decent SSB CBs are up in the 200 dollar range. (ie President McKinley but a big fan of that model and highly recommend it)
There was a time when HF Rigs sucked on AM, but the new stuff out there is excellent for AM and gives you clean tight modulation that would provide great exciter service for an amp.
I see decent Exports going for 300-400bucks average, FT-450D you can get now for 679 bucks and you some power and an antenna tuner built in to help when you cant get that perfect match
cant beat that. It seems like Ham gear is being underpriced and exports overpriced a weird situation.Back then Amateur radio equipment cost was so high and I remember several models did not even do AM at all.
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BJ radionut
Supporting Member and 6m addict
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... edit...Please define power supply has "Voltage DROP"..."but not to bad"???
It's all just Yadda, Yadda, Yadda.....
The 7300 is just a basic AMATEUR rig.
In fact, the Rx is not very good at all in even a modest RF environment.
Ancient Modulation
Please define power supply has "Voltage DROP"..."but not to bad"???
That's Advanced Modulation.
BJ radionut
Supporting Member and 6m addict
Thats a dirty trick.
AM has advanced quite a bit with sdr technology and Class D and E transmitters. Ive yet to see a ssb transmitter small and light enough to carry with one hand that makes legal limit with little heat and runs off a 120 volt circuit. +90% efficient rf amplifier and pwm modulators are in.
http://www.sherweng.com/table.html
There are worse receivers but there certainly are better receivers than the 7300.