{"id":18295,"date":"2016-04-15T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T14:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18295"},"modified":"2016-05-15T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T22:14:49","slug":"look-what-just-landed-on-my-desk-the-new-icom-ic-7300-direct-sampling-transceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/look-what-just-landed-on-my-desk-the-new-icom-ic-7300-direct-sampling-transceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Look what just landed on my desk: the new Icom IC-7300 direct sampling transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Icom-IC-7300-Front-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

[UPDATE:<\/strong> Read the full IC-7300 review–along with listener survey results–by clicking here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

I have a new toy in the shack: the Icom IC-7300<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Last night, a good friend handed over his brand-spanking-new<\/em> IC-7300 and is allowing me to evaluate it over the next week or so.<\/p>\n

The IC-7300<\/a> is Icom’s first “entry level”\u00a0RF, Direct Sampling System HF transceiver.<\/p>\n

I’ve only had the IC-7300 on the air for a few minutes, so can’t comment about performance. I can say that it has one of the most intuitive interfaces I’ve seen on a transceiver with so many functions. I also love the spectrum display–small, but large enough to see all of the pertinent information:<\/p>\n

\"Icom-IC-7300-Front-Display\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a slick machine, indeed!<\/p>\n

Time permitting, I plan to post a few audio clips and get reader reactions much like I did for in the portable shoot-out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll compare the IC-7300 to my Elecraft KX3<\/a> and a few SDRs as well. Of course, I’m evaluating this during one of the busiest times in my life, so we’ll see how quickly I progress–!<\/p>\n

Simply follow this tag for updates: IC-7300<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[UPDATE: Read the full IC-7300 review–along with listener survey results–by clicking here.] I have a new toy in the shack: the Icom IC-7300. Last night, a good friend handed over his brand-spanking-new IC-7300 and is allowing me to evaluate it over the next week or so. The IC-7300 is Icom’s first “entry level”\u00a0RF, Direct Sampling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,836,3,26,43],"tags":[4157,2884,4158],"class_list":["post-18295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-new-products","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ic-7300","tag-icom","tag-icom-ic-7300"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4L5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14538,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/icom-introduces-the-ic-7300\/","url_meta":{"origin":18295,"position":0},"title":"Icom introduces the IC-7300","author":"Thomas","date":"August 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Icom introduced a new general coverage transceiver this year at the Tokyo Hamfair: the Icom IC-7300. 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