{"id":585,"date":"2018-03-03T19:22:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jplarc.ampr.org\/?p=585"},"modified":"2018-03-08T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:50:21","slug":"jpl-arc-purchased-new-icom-ic-7300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jplarc.org\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"JPL ARC Purchased New ICOM IC-7300"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-589\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-589 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/jplarc.ampr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wb6ilw-ic-7300-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Townes (WB4ILW) tries out the new ICOM IC-7300 radio in Buildign 329\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jplarc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wb6ilw-ic-7300-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jplarc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wb6ilw-ic-7300-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jplarc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wb6ilw-ic-7300-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jplarc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wb6ilw-ic-7300-1088x816.jpg 1088w, https:\/\/jplarc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wb6ilw-ic-7300.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Townes (WB4ILW) tries out the new ICOM IC-7300 radio in Building 329<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since we are having problems with our Yaesu FT-1000s, and a new radio purchase was approved in the 2018 club budget, we purchased a new ICOM IC-7300 radio last Friday.\u00a0\u00a0 We set it up and were able to try it out and it works well.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The IC-7300 is quite a bit smaller than our old Yaesu FT-100s.\u00a0\u00a0 But it is a good radio and seemed to perform quite well when we tested it.\u00a0\u00a0 It uses a very intuitive touch-screen interface.\u00a0 We do not have the PPT foot switch or the Heil headphones working yet, but we hope to get them set up for it soon.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in trying it, and you not familiar with this radio with its touch-screen interface, I encourage you to watch a You-tube video.\u00a0 For example:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Using the Icom IC-7300\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aTFjh1yWzXQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You may want to take a quick read through the user manual, which you can download from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icomamerica.com\/en\/downloads\/default.aspx?Category=615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Official ICOM IC-300 site<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The basic one may be all you need since the operation is very intuitive once you understand a few basics, which are covered in the Basic manual.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>After posting this news, we got some feedback from Elliott H. Liggett:<\/em><\/p>\n<div>Congratulations on the IC-7300 purchase. This radio is really something else, hard to even compare with others. We have one at home and I love it, sold almost all my other radio stuff because of it. The USB interface is also really great. You can set the bandwidth in \u201cDATA\u201d mode to 4 khz and then operate digital modes very easily. We\u2019re using fldigi here with a raspberry pi with great success on CW and PSK31. I think you will find yourself missing the FT-1000 less and less over time.<\/div>\n<div>73,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0&#8211;E W6EL<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we are having problems with our Yaesu FT-1000s, and a new radio purchase was approved in the 2018 club budget, we purchased a new ICOM IC-7300 radio last Friday.\u00a0\u00a0 We set it up and were able to try it out and it works well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/jplarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/jplarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}