{"id":25324,"date":"2017-04-20T18:06:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T22:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=25324"},"modified":"2017-04-20T18:06:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T22:06:57","slug":"video-icom-ic-r8600-sync-detector-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/video-icom-ic-r8600-sync-detector-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Icom IC-R8600 sync detector in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Icom-IC-R8600-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23588\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Icom-IC-R8600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Icom-IC-R8600-1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Icom-IC-R8600-1-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"http:\/\/webpages.charter.net\/n9ewo2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Zantow (N9EWO)<\/a>, who shares the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For your listening pleasure. Here is the best video yet showing the Icom IC-R8600\u2019s Sync Detector in use.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like Icom \u201cfinally\u201d got the Sync Detector performance right with the R8600. Appears to greatly reduce fading distortion, where as with the expensive IC-R9500 it does not help much with fading distortion (if at all).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ekLgJ8KAc5o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ekLgJ8KAc5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Good news indeed !!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree, Dave. This is most promising indeed!<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to checking out the IC-R8600 at the Dayton Hamvention this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Zantow (N9EWO), who shares the following: For your listening pleasure. Here is the best video yet showing the Icom IC-R8600\u2019s Sync Detector in use. Sounds like Icom \u201cfinally\u201d got the Sync Detector performance right with the R8600. Appears to greatly reduce fading distortion, where as with the expensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[836,3,26,43],"tags":[2584,5374,5378,6140],"class_list":["post-25324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dave-zantow-n9ewo","tag-ic-r8600","tag-icom-ic-r8600","tag-icom-ic-r8600-sync-detector"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6As","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27221,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/follow-dave-zantow-for-icom-ic-r8600-updates-and-evaluation\/","url_meta":{"origin":25324,"position":0},"title":"Follow Dave Zantow for Icom IC-R8600 updates and evaluation","author":"Thomas","date":"July 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Zantow (N9EWO), who writes Have a few IC-R8600 \u201cfirst observations\u201d posted on the test sample we now have here. 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Click here to download (PDF). Note that Dave continuously updates his own review of the IC-R8600 as well. Thanks for the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IC-R8600-review-ARRL.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":27647,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/dave-reviews-the-icom-ic-r8600\/","url_meta":{"origin":25324,"position":2},"title":"Dave reviews the Icom IC-R8600","author":"Thomas","date":"August 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Zantow (N9EWO) who writes: Just FYI. My Icom IC-R8600 \u201cWide Band\u201d Receiver Review is now available. Mind you this is subject to more updates than usual at least for awhile. For any questions, yes please send them along. http:\/\/webpages.charter.net\/n9ewo2\/icr8600.html \"The excellent ICOM IC-R8600\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Products&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Products","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/new-products\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Icom-IC-R8600-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Icom-IC-R8600-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Icom-IC-R8600-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":29291,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/dave-notes-black-friday-deals-on-the-icom-ic-r8600-and-ic-7300\/","url_meta":{"origin":25324,"position":3},"title":"Dave notes &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; deals on the Icom IC-R8600 and IC-7300","author":"Thomas","date":"November 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Zantow (N9EWO), who notes that Ham Radio Outlet has a \"Back Friday\" special on both the Icom IC-7300 transceiver ($999.95 with shipping after rebate) and the IC-R8600 wideband receiver ($2,299.95 with shipping). 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